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CLOUD  OF  WITNESSES. 


THE  GREATEST  MEN  IN  THE  WORLD  FOR 
CHRIST  AND  THE  BOOK. 


AN  EXHAUSTIVE  AND  UNPRECEDENTED  CONSENSUS   OF   BIOGRAPHIC 
AND  AUTOGRAPHIC  OPINIONS    RESPECTING  THE  AUTHOR 
OF  CHRISTIANITY  AND  THE  BIBLE     FROM  OVER  ONE 
THOUSAND  ILLUSTRIOUS  PERSONAGES  OUT- 
SIDE THE  CLERICAL  PROFESSION.  ' 

KINGS,    PRESIDENTS,    SENATORS,    CONGRESSMEN,    PARLIAMENTARIANS,   DIPLOMATS, 
PHILOSOPHERS,    SCIENTISTS,    POETS,   AUTHORS,    HISTORIANS,  ARTISTS,    PHIL- 
ANTHROPISTS, REFORMERS.  EDUCATORS,  LAWYERS.  PHYSICIANS,  SOL- 
DIERS,   JOURNALISTS,     FINANCIERS,    GOVERNORS    OF    STATES, 
LEADERS   OF   GREAT   MOVEMENTS,  AND   THE  ACKNOWL- 
EDGED    REPRESENTATIVE    MEN     OF    THE    OLD 
WORLD    AND    THE    NEW 

BY 

STEPHEN  ABBOTT  NORTHROP,  D.D.,  LLD. 


Great  Authorities  ari  great  arguments. — Daniel  IVcbsler. 

No  sadder  proof  can  be  given  a  man  of  his  own  littleness  than  disbelief  in  great 
men. — Carljyle. 

Why  may  not  laymen  instruct  in  the  general  principles  of  Christianity  as  well  as 
ecclesi.istics  7— Judge  Story. 

Is  the  glory  of  Heaven  to  bi  sun^  only  by  gentlemen  in  black  coat-- ?  Must  the 
truth  be  only  spoken  in  gown  and  surplice?  Commend  me  tot^gj^tea^her  without 
orders  ? —  Thackeray. 

JFiftb  edition— ^Tllttfiitrateli 


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KANSAS  CITY,  U.  S.  A. 


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TO 

DEAR  ONES 

TRIED  AND  TRUE: 

A  CHRISTIAN  FATHER, 
A  LOVING  COMPANION, 
A  DEVOTED  DAUGHTER, 

I  DEDICATE  THIS  BOOK. 

To  Father  first,  becnuse 
he,  with  my  sainted  Moth- 
er, laid  the  right  founda- 
tion in  my  youthful  heart 
through   prayers,  tears, 
precepts,  and  sacrifices. 
To  Wife  next,  because  her  wise  counsel,  cheering  word,  and 
helpful    presence    have   been   my   daily   inspiration   during    the 
anxious  years  of  a  laborious  professional  career. 
To    Daughter  last,  be- 
cause her  gleeful  voice,  af- 
fectionate nature,and  win- 
some spirit  have  been  my 
sweet   delight  at  closing 
day  and  returning  morn. 


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INTRODUCTORY. 


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N  IMPRESSION  prevails  among  a  cer- 
tain class,  either  through  willful  preju- 
dice or  superficial  knowledge,  that  our 
great  thinkers  and  representative  men  are  not  in 
open  sympathy  with  the  religion  of  the  Bible ;  that 
Christianity  is  only  for  the  weak,  the  young,  and 
the  ignorant;  and  that  its  champions  outside  the 
pulpit,  the  Christian  press,  and  theological  circles 
are  few  and  far  between.  These  pages  are  a  bold 
and  exhaustive  refutation  to  such  opinions.  Mas- 
ter minds  in  the  first  rank  of  statesmanship  and 
scholarship  appear  in  evidence  that  the  very  re- 
verse is  true:  that  the  wisest,  the  bravest,  and 
the  profoundest  are  the  stanch  friends  of  the  Cross 
and  the  Word.  Indeed,  since  the  birth  of  Christ 
the  Wise  Men  of  the  world,  best  qualified  to  de- 
tect error  and  imposture,  have  laid  at  His  feet 
the  richest  gifts  of  their  genius. 

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An  interesting  and  unique  feature  of  this  work 
is,  that  every  one  of  its  recorded  Declarations,  di- 
rectly or  indirectly  in  favor  of  CHRIST  and  the 
BIBLE,  comes  from  secular  sources,  and  none 
whatever  from  clergymen.  By  virtue  of  their 
office    clerg3'men    are    expected    to    advocate    the 

ji<![-.:\  claims  of  the  Founder  of  Christianity  and  its  in- 
spired Book;  hence  a  collection  of  Testimonies 
from  such  authorities  might  be  charged  with  pro- 
fessional bias;  but  when  men  of  the  highest  in- 
tellectual attainments;  men  whose  names  are  en- 
graved on  the  front  of  the  centuries  as  leaders  of 
human  thought — pioneers  of  political,  material,  and 
moral  progress — who  have  opened  new  paths  for 
the  feet  of  knowledge,  and  who  have  no  personal 
interest  at  stake ;  when  such  men  wield  pen  and 
lift  voice  in  emulous  praise  to  the  Lamb  of  Cal- 
vary, incomparable  in  the  life  He,  led  ;  unapproach- 
able in  the  faith  He  inspired,  and  matchless  in  the 
ethics  He  preached — to  the  Testimony  of  such  Wit- 
nesses assuredly  all  reasonable  persons  will  respect- 
fully listen,  and,  let  us  hope,  confess  with  those 
"  who  watched  Him  there,"  "  Truly,  this  was  the 
Son  of  God  !  " 

My  task  in  preparing  this  book  for  publication 
will  be  more  than  compensated  if  perused  with 
fairness   by  the   unbeliever,  and  with  pleasure    by 

ft^^l  vni 


iMiiiWn* ! 


the  Christian,  serving  to  dissipate  the  doubts  of 
the  one,  and  to  confirm  the  faith  of  the  other; 
bringing  both  alike  into  more  intimate  relation 
with  the  Mighty-to-Save,  who  gloriously  leads  the 
van  of  our  civilization. — 

"Toiling  up   new  Calvaries  with  the  Cross  that 
turns  not  back." 

These  Testimonies  have  been  obtained  during 
years  of  painstaking  research  in  city,  national, 
and  university  libraries,  and  by  an  extensive  cor- 
respondence W'ith  distinguished  men  of  two  conti- 
nents up  to  the  present  hour.  The  references  that 
follow,  or  precede,  are  of  indisputable  authority,  so 
that  those  who  wish  to  quote  or  investigate  may 
feel  perfectly  assured  of  their  accuracy.  Testimo- 
nies with  fac  simile  signatures  are  trustworthy  in 
ever}'  case.  The  original  letters  are  in  possession 
of  the  undersigned — deposited  under  lock  and  key 
for  safe -keeping,  or  any  possible  appeal.  Some 
of  these  autograph  Confessions  of  Faith  are  very 
brief,  but  the  value  of  any  testimony  is  never  to 
be  measured  by  the  space  it  covers.  Great  truths 
are  often  expressed  in  fewest  words.  The  senti- 
ments of  Poets,  as  might  be  expected,  are  given 
mostly  in  verse.  No  attempt  has  been  made  to 
indicate  the  volutnes  from  which  the  selections 
have  been  taken,  for  the  reason  that  there  are  so 


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many  different  editions  that  no  satisfactory  system 
of  reference  could  be  fixed  upon.  Most  of  the 
quotations,  however,  may  be  readily  found  in  any 
of  the  authorized  works  of  the.se  writers. 

My  hearty  thanks  are  due  the  many  Publishers 
and  Authors  for  the  use  of  valuable  extracts  from 
their  books,  and  also  to  those  who  have  courte- 
ously furnished,  at  my  solicitation,  their  autograph 
Testimonies.  Friends  and  strangers,  here  and  there, 
have  kindly  offered  many  timely  hints  and  good 
cheer. 

May  this  volume  inspire  more  devout  reverence 
for,  and  deeper  study  of,  the  Bible,  "  the  God  of 
books,"  the  safest  one  to  trust  in  this  life,  and 
the  only  one  to  pillow  our  heads  upon  in  death. 
"  Search  the  Scriptures,"  for  the}^  are  their  own 
best  proof  So  too  with  Revelation's  Saviour !  He 
Himself  is  His  own  strongest  evidence :  "  I  am 
One  that  bear  witness  of  Myself!"  "Behold  my 
hands  and  feet,  handle  Me  and  see  ! "  Christ  is 
God,  and  Christ  is  Man  !  He  is  Emanuel — GOD 
WITH  US.  He  is  the  one  unique,  colossal  Figure 
of  all  time.  His  enthronement  will  be  universal. 
The  magnetism  of  the  uplifted  Cross  and  the  re- 
vealed Word  will  draw  all  nations  into  one  bond  of 
Christian  Unity,  Human  Liberty,  and  Fraternity! 

Finally,  the  verdict  of  the  impartial  reader  must 


THE  ADORATION  OF  THE  WISE  MEN. 

SHE  had  kept  all  things  in  the  least  affecting  the  little  One,  and   pondered   them  in 
her  heart.     And  they  fell  down  and  worshiped  Him.     Then  they  arose,  and,  re- 
turning to  the  camels,  brought  gifts  of  gold,  frankincense  and  myrrh,  and  laid  them 
before  the  Child,  abating  nothing  of  their  worshipful  speeches.     And  this  was  the  Saviour 
they  had  come  so  far  to  find. — General  Lew  Wallace  in  "  Ben  Hur." 


SCIENTIFIC  men  have  not  been  slow  in  their  testimony  to  Christ.  When  Jesus  was 
born  in  Bethlehem  the  first  who  came  to  Him  were  poor  peasants,  but  the  next 
were  the  scientific  men  of  the  age,  traveling  from  afar,  who  had  seen  the  star  in 
the  East.  Not  the  priests  of  Jerusalem,  but  the  astronomers— wise  men,  came  with  their 
precious  gifts.  That  was  only  the  commencement  of  a  long  line  of  distinguished  men 
who  have  brought  homage  to  Christ  in  one  way  or  another  —John  Hall  Gladstone, 
F.  R.  S. 


THE  OPENING  ARGUMENT. 


The  Argument  of  this  book  is  that  the  Famous 
Men  of  Christendom  are  firm  believers  in  CHRIST 
and  the  BIBLE^  and  they  have  so  declared  them- 
selves in  clear  and  emphatic  terms.  We  here  deploy 
twenty  chosen  men  of  commanding  name  and  weighty 
utterance  to  sustain  the  position  thus  taken. 


S^^  "^^  Hj 


OST  men  at  the  head  of  great  movements  are  Chris- 
\  ^\  tian  men. — William  E.  Gladstone. 

JN>  f       Christianity   has   been   embraced   by   the  wisest, 
purest,  strongest,  and  noblest  men  in  the  world. — 
Thomas  Hughes. 

The  Christian  religion  is  no  longer  the  badge  of  weak- 
lings and  enthusiasts,  but  of  distinction,  enforcing  respect. 
— William  McKinley. 

My  faith  is,  though  a  great  man  may,  by  a  rare  possibility, 
be  an  infidel,  an  intellect  of  the  highest  order  must  build  on 
Christianity. — Thomas  De  Quincey. 

This  admirable  author  (Shakespeare) ,  as  well  as  the  best 
and  greatest  men  in  all  ages  and  of  all  nations,  seems  to  have 
had  his  mind  thoroughly  seasoned  with  religion. — STEELE 
and  Addison. 

The  loftiest  intellects  since  the  advent  of  Christianity  have 
had  faith,  a  practical  faith,  in  the  doctrines  of  the  Gospel : 
.  .  .  Descartes  and  Newton,  Liebnitz  and  Pascal,  Racine 
and  Corneille,  Charlemagne  and  Louis  XIV. — Napoleon. 

As  to  the  Christian  religion,  besides  the  strong  evidence 
which  we  have  for  it,  there  is  a  balance  in  its  favor  for  the 
number  of  great  men  who  have  been  convinced  of  its  truth 


THE    OPENING    ARGUMENT. 

after  a  serious    consideration    of    the    question. — Samuei^ 
Johnson. 

They  can  no  longer  assert,  that  piety  is  confined  to  men 
of  little  minds  when  they  behold  the  highest  degree  of  it  in 
a  geometrician  (Pascal)  of  the  first  rank,  the  most  acute  meta- 
physician, and  the  most  penetrating  mind  that  ever  existed. 
— Pierre  Bayle. 

The  books  of  Moses,  no  monument,  either  historical  or 
astronomical,  has  yet  been  able  to  prove  false;  but  with 
them,  on  the  contrary,  agree,  in  the  most  remarkable  man- 
ner, the  results  obtained  by  the  most  learned  philosophers 
and  profoundest  geometricians. — Adriano  Balbi. 

In  Eulogy  of  Daniel  Webster:  x\nd  beyond  all  this  he 
died  in  the  faith  of  the  Christian — humble,  but  hopeful — 
adding  another  to  the  long  list  of  eminent  men  who  have 
searched  the  Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ,  and  have  found  it  to  be 
the  word  and  the  will  of  God. — Lewis  Cass. 

It  is  no  slight  testimonial,  both  to  the  merit  and  worth  of 
Christianity,  that  in  all  ages  since  its  promulgation  the  great 
mass  of  those  who  have  risen  to  eminence  by  their  profound 
ivisdom  and  integrity  have  recognized  and  reverenced  Jesus 
cof  Nazereth  as  the  Son  of  the  living-  God. — ^John  Quincy 
Adams. 

Even  to  the  end  of  time,  all  wise  and  intelligent  men  must 
Idow  themselves  reverently  before  this  Jesus  of  Nazareth ; 
and  the  more  wise,  intelligent,  and  noble  they  themselves 
are,  the  more  humbly  will  they  recognize  the  exceeding 
nobleness  of  this  great  and  glorious  manifestation  of  the 
Divine  Life. — J.  G.  Fichte. 

When  you  are  told  that  these  Missionary  Societies  are 
nonsense,  ''supported  by  a  pack  of  old  women  getting  to- 
gether," then  you  may  point  to  those  men — the  best  states- 
men and  the  best  soldiers  of  India,  who  have  by  their  lives, 
and  on  every  occasion  in  which  they  could,  sustained  Chris- 
tian Missions. — The  Earl  of  Northbrook. 


THH   OPENING   ARGUMENT. 

The  greatest  men  have  believed  in  our  Saviour  .  .  . 
that  is  to  say,  the  most  enlightened  men  on  the  earth,  in  the 
most  philosophical  of  all  ages,  and  in  full  vigor  of  mind  and 
body,  have  believed  in  Jesus  Christ ;  and  the  great  Conde, 
when  dying,  repeated  these  words  :  "  Yes,  we  shall  see  Him. 
as  He  is,  face  to  face." — Marquis  De  Vauvenargues. 

Few  persons  who  have  contemplated  Christianity  as  it  ex- 
isted the  first  three  centuries  would  have  imagined  it  pos- 
sible that  it  should  completely  supersede  the  Pagan  worship 
around  it ;  that  its  teachers  should  bend  the  mightiest  mon- 
archs  to  their  will,  and  stamp  their  influence  on  every  page  of 
legislation,  and  direct  the  whole  course  of  civilization  for  a 
thousand  years. — W.  E.  H.  Lecky. 

For  more  than  a  thousand  years  the  Bible,  collectively- 
taken,  has  gone  hand  in  hand  with  civilization,  science,  law  ; 
in  short,  with  the  moral  and  intellectual  cultivation  of  the 
species.  Good  and  holy  men,  and  the  best  and  wisest  of 
mankind,  the  kingly  spirits  of  history,  enthroned  in  the 
hearts  of  mighty  nations,  have  borne  witness  to  its  influence^ 
and  have  declared  it  beyond  compare  the  most  perfect  in- 
strument of  humanity. — S.  T.  Coleridge. 

The  most  wonderful  Volume  in  existence  is,  beyond  doubts 
the  Bible.  And  it  is,  most  of  all,  wonderful  that  up  to  the 
present  time,  in  the  opinion  of  hundreds  of  thousands  of  the 
judicious,  reflecting,  and  reasoning  among  earth's  inhabit- 
ants, during  three  thousand  years  since  its  first  book  was  writ- 
ten, it  has  maintained  its  high  authority,  and  has  retained, 
in  all  this  lapse  of  time,  a  powerful  sway  over  the  human 
mind. — General  Ormsby  Macknight  Mitchel. 

Men  of  simple  minds,  devoid  of  curiosity  and  of  learning, 
are  Christians  through  reverence ;  minds  of  middle  growth 
and  moderate  capacities  are  the  most  prone  to  error  and 
doubt ;  but  higher  intellects,  more  clear-sighted  and  grounded 
in  science,  form  a  superior  class  of  believers,  who,  through, 
long  and  religious  investigations,  arrive  at  the  fountain  light 


THE    OPENING   ARGUMENT. 

of  the  Scriptures,  and  feel  the  mysterious  and  Divine  mean- 
ing of  our  ecclesiastical  doctrines. — Michael  De  Mon- 
taigne. 

We  are  sometimes  reminded  that  the  religion  of  the  cruci- 
fied Redeemer  may  do  for  women,  for  okildren,  for  weak- 
minded  men,  but  not  for  men  of  experience,  observation,  and 
reflection.  Men  who  see  not  God  in  our  history  have  surely 
lost  sight  of  the  fact  that  from  the  landing  of  the  Mayflower 
to  this  hour  the  great  men  whose  names  are  indissolubly  as- 
sociated with  the  colonization,  rise  and  progress  of  the  re- 
public have  borne  testimony  to  the  vital  truths  of  Chris- 
tianity.— Henry  Wilson,  United  States  Senator. 

Thus  you  will  find  all  that  is  great,  or  wise,  or  splendid, 
or  illustrious,  among  created  beings ;  all  the  minds  gifted 
beyond  ordinary  measure,  if  not  inspired  by  the  universal 
Author  for  the  advancement  and  dignity  of  the  world,  though 
divided  by  distant  ages,  and  by  the  clashing  opinions  dis- 
tinguishing them  from  one  another,  yet  joining,  as  it  were,  in 
one  sublime  chorus  to  celebrate  the  truths  of  Christianity, 
and  laying  upon  its  holy  altars  the  never-fading  offerings  of 
their  immortal  wisdom. — Lord  Chancellor  Erskine. 

It  is  a  favorite  ruse  de  guerre  with  some  writers  and 
speakers  against  Christianity  to  represent  that  those  oppo- 
sitions are  due  to  modern  science,  meaning  thereby  physical 
and  natural  sciences,  and  that  nearly  all  scientific  men  dis- 
believe the  religion  of  Christ.  These,  however,  are  ground- 
less assertions.  The  experience  of  fifty  years,  and  acquaint- 
ance with  very  many  scientific  men  of  different  types  in 
different  countries,  enables  me  to  say,  that  very  many  of  the 
most  distinguished  men  were  Christians,  and  I  know  many 
others,  who,  if  not  Christians,  may  be  said  to  be  "Not  far 
from  the  kingdom  of  God."  The  utterances  of  a  few  popular 
men  should  not  be  taken  as  expressing  the  views  of  the 
whole  class.  The  best  and  ablest  scientific  men  have  all 
along  been  devoted  Christians,  and  Christianity  has  all  along 
helped  to  make  them  what  they  are. — Sir  John  William 
Dawson. 


A  CLOUD  OF  WITNESSES. 


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"  The  Wise  Men  of  the  East "  brought  gifts  of  gold,  frankincense  and 
myrrh  to  the  Christ  of  Bethlehem,  but  "  The  Wise  Men  "  of  Christendom  bring 
gifts  of  genius  to  the  Christ  of  Calvary. 


JOHN  ABERCROMBIE, 

Scottish  Physician.     (1780-1844.) 


J  OMJLTIVATB  an  acquaintance  with  the  Holy  Scriptures. 

I  <J  By  daily  prayer  seek  the  pardon  of  your  sins  through 
Cv.-^  Christ,  the  only  Mediator.  When  in  doubt  with  regard 
to  any  piece  of  conduct,  try  it  by  this  test :  Is  it  agree- 
able to  the  law  of  God?  Will  it  bear  the  reflection  of  the 
dying  hour?  Thus  you  may  look  for  the  blessing  of  God,  and 
through  Jesus  an  inheritance  is  the  resurrection  of  the  just. — 
' '  Li/e  of  Abercro77tbie^ ' '  Volume  11^  * '  Short  Biographies  for  the 
People s,^^  by  George  Wilson, 


A  CLOUD  OF  WITNESSKS. 

CHARLES  KENDALL  ADAMS, 

President  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin. 

BELIEVE  that  Jesus  Christ  is  the  Son  of  God,  and  the 
Son  of  Mary,  and  that  He  came  into  this  world  for  the 
salvation  of  men.  I  believe  that  the  Holy  Bible  is  a 
divine  revelation  to  man,  and  that  through  its  sacred 
teaching,  faithful  instruction  in  righteousness,  and  heavenly 
inspiration,  all  men  may  find  the  way  of  everlasting  life.  The 
Christian  religion  will  ultimately  triumph;  ''the  kingdoms  of 
this  world  will  become  the  kingdoms  of  our  Lord  and  of  His 
Christ,  and  He  shall  reign  forever  and  ever." 


D- 


JOHN  ADAMS, 

Second  President  of  the  United  States.     (1735-1826.) 

HAVE  examined  all  religions,  as  well  as  my  narrow 

sphere,  my  straightened  means,  and  my  busy  life,  would 

allow;,  and  the  result  is  that  the  Bible  is  the  best  Book 

in  the  world.     It  contains  more  little  philosophy  than 

all  the  libraries  I  have  seen. —  To  Thomas  Jefferson. 

Suppose  a  nation  in  some  distant  region  should  take  the 
Bible  for  their  only  law-book,  and  every  member  should 
regulate  his  conduct  by  the  precepts  there  contained !  Every 
member  would  be  obliged  in  conscience,  to  temperance^ 
frugality,  and  industry;  to  justice,  kindness,  and  charity 
towards  his  fellow  men;  and  to  piety,  love,  and  reverence 
toward  Almighty  God. — Pages  6  andy^  Volume  XI ^  ^^Life  and 
Works  of  John  Adams y 

That  you  and  I  shall  meet  in  a  better  world  I  have  no 
doubt  than  we  now  exist  on  the  same  globe ;  if  my  reason  did 
not  convince  me  of  this,  Cicero's  Dream  of  Scipio,  and  his 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


^ssay  on  Friendship  and  Old  Age  would  have  been  sufficient 
for  that  purpose.  But  Jesus  taught  us  that  a  future  state  is  a 
social  state,  when  He  promised  to  prepare  places  in  His 
Father's  house  of  many  mansions,  for  His  disciples. — Page 
390,  Volume  X^  ^^Life  aftd  Works  of  John  Adajtis^ 


JOHN  QUINCY  ADAMS, 

Sixth  President  of  the  United  States.     (1767-1848.) 


IR,  I  might  go 
through  the 
whole  of  the 
sacred  history 
of  the  Jews  to  the 
advent  of  our  Saviour 
and  find  innum- 
erable examples  of 
women  who  not  only 
took  an  active  part  in 
politics  of  their  times, 
but  who  are  held  up 
with  honor  to  poster- 
ity for  doing  so.  Our 
Saviour  himself,  while 
on  earth,  performed 
that  most  stupendous  miracle,  the  raising  of  Lazarus  from 
the  dead,  at  the  petition  of  a  woman. — From  a  speech  in 
•Congress^  Jmie  16,  and  July  7,  1838. 

There  are  two  prayers  that  I  love  to  say — the  first  is  the 
Lord's  Prayer,  and  because  the  Lord  taught  it;  and  the  other 
is  what  seems  to  be  a  child's  prayer:  "Now  I  lay  me  down  to 
sleep,"  and  I  love  to  say  that  because  it  suits  me.  1  have  been 
repeating  it  every  night  for  many  years  past,  and  I  say  it  yet, 
and  I  expect  to  say  it  my  last  night  on  earth  if  I  am  con- 
scious.   But  I  have  added  a  few  words  more  to  the  prayer  sp 


4  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

as  to  express  my  trust  in  Christ,  and  also  to  acknowledge 
what  I  ask,  for  I  ask  as  a  favor,  and  not  because  I  deserve  it. 

This  is  it: 

"  Now  I  lay  me  down  to  sleep, 
I  pray  the  Lord  my  soul  to  keep  ; 
If  I  should  die  before  I  wake, 
I  pray  the  Lord  my  soul  to  take ; 
For  Jesus'  sake.     Amen." 
{See  The  Churchman,  of  June  14, 1890.) 

I  deem  myself  fortunate  in  having  the  opportunity,  at  a 
stage  of  a  long  life  drawing  rapidly  to  its  close,  to  bear  at  this 
place,  the  capital  of  our  National  Union,  in  the  Hall  of  Rep- 
resentatives of  the  North  American  people,  in  the  chair  of 
the  presiding  officer  of  the  assembly  representing  the  whole 
people,  the  personification  of  the  great  and  mighty  nation — to 
bear  my  solemn  testimonial  of  reverence  and  gratitude  to  that 
Book  of  books,  the  Holy  Bible  .  .  .  The  Bible  carries  with  it 
the  history  of  the  creation,  the  fall  and  redemption  of  man, 
and  discloses  to  him,  in  the  infant  born  at  Bethlehem,  the 
Legislator  and  Saviour  of  the  world. — From  his  address  as 
chairma7t  oefore  the  American  Bible  Society  on  the  evening  of 
February  27,  1844. 


WILLIAM  TAYLOR  ADAMS, 

[''OLIVER  OPTIC] 

Story-Writer.      (1822-1897.) 

WAS  a  constant  church-goer  for  fifty  years  until  my 
hearing  failed  me,  so  that  I  do  not  attend  divine  services 
or  meetings  of  any  kind.  I  was  connected  with  the 
Sunday-school  for  twenty  years. 
I  regard  Jesus  Christ  as  the  purest  and  holiest  Being  ever 
on  earth,  and  whose  teachings,  ministry,  and  example  have 
been  "the  Light  of  the  World."  I  look  upon  the  Bible  as  the 
greatest  and  best  Book  ever  given  to  man,  especially  the  New 
Testament,  which  contains  the  Life  and  the  Word  of  our  Lord 
and  Saviour.  /<^  /;  J/\^ 


CROWNED  HEADS  OF  THREE  GREAT  KINGDOMS. 


Nicholas  II.,  Czar  of  Russia, 

Page  ^39. 

Victoria,  late  Queen  of  Great  Britain 
AND  Empress  of  India, 

Page  ^^  I. 

William  II.,  King  of  Prussia  and 
Emperor  of  Germany, 

Page  $06. 


A   CIvOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  5 

SAMUEL  ADAMS, 

Qj^-^    Signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence.    (1722-1803.) 

^  2)RINCIPALLY,  and  first  of  all,  I  resign  my  soul  to  the 

•^  Q    Almighty  Being  who  gave  it,  and  my  body  I  commit 

^  yv   to  the  dust,  relying  on  the  merits  of  Jesus  Christ  for 

^         the  pardon  of  my  sins. — From  his  Will. 

I  conceive  we  can  not  better  express  ourselves  than  by 

humbly  supplicating  the  Supreme  Ruler  of  the  world    .   .    . 

that  the  confusions  that  are  and  have  been  among  the  nations 

may  be  overruled  by  the  promoting  and  speedily  bringing  in 

the  holy  and  happy  period  when  the  kingdoms  of  our  Lord 

and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ  may  be  everywhere  established,  and 

the  people  willingly  bow  to  the  sceptre  of  Him  who  is  the 

Prince  of  Peace. — Pages  378  and  366,  Volume  III^  '-''Life  and 

Public  Services  of  Samuel  Adams ^^"^  by  William  V.  Wells. 


JEAN  LOUIS  RUDOLPHE  AGASSIZ, 

Naturalist  and  Teacher  in  America.    (1807-1873.) 

^F  by  the  unity  of  the  races  of  man  be  meant  nothing 
more  than  all  mankind  were  endowed  with  one  com- 
mon nature,  intellectual  and  physical,  derived  from  the 
Creator  of  all  men;  were  under  the  same  moral  govern- 
ment of  the  universe,  and  sustained  similar  relations  with 
the  Deity,  I  side  with  those  who  maintain  the  unity  of  the 
race.  It  is  quite  a  different  question  whether  the  different 
races  of  men  were  descended  from  different  stocks,  and  I  re- 
gard the  point  as  fully  proved  by  divine  revelation.  The 
Jewish  history  was  the  history,  not  of  divers  races,  but  of  a 
single  race  of  mankind  ;  but  the  existence  of  other  races  is 
often  incidentally  alluded  to,  and  distinctly  implied,  if  not 
absolutely  asserted,  in  the  Sacred  Volume. — Part  11^ 
^^  Pickering^  s  Races  of  Man.'''* 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


JOSEPH  ADDISON, 


English  Poet  and  Essayist.     (1672-1719.) 

OME  parts  of  our 
Saviour's  history 
may  be  reasona- 
bly expected  from 
pagans.  I  mean  such  parts 
as  might  be  known  to 
those  who  lived  at  a  dis- 
tance from  Judea,  as  well 
as  those  who  were  the  fol- 
lowers and  eyewitnesses 
of  Christ.  Such  particu- 
lars are  most  of  these 
which  follow,  and  which 
are  all  attested  by  some 
one  or  other  of  those 
heathen  authors  who 
lived  in  or  near  the  age 
of  our  Saviour  and  His  disciples.  "  That  Augustus  Csesar  had 
ordered  the  whole  empire  to  be  taxed,"  which  brought  our 
Saviour's  parents  to  Bethlehem;  this  is  mentioned  by  several 
historians,  as  Tacitus,  Suetonius,  and  Dion.  "That  a  great 
light,  or  a  new  star,  appeared  in  the  East,  which  directed  the 
wise  men  to  our  Saviour";  this  is  recorded  by  Calcidius.  ''That 
Herod,  the  king  of  Palestine,  so  often  mentioned  in  Roman 
history,  made  a  great  slaughter  of  innocent  children," 
being  so  jealous  of  his  successor  that  he  put  to  death  his  own 
sons  on  that  account;  this  character  of  him  is  given  by  several 
historians,  and  this  cruel  fact  mentioned  by  Macrobius,  a 
heathen  author,  who  tells  it  as  a  known  thing,  without  any 
mark  or  doubt  about  it.  "  That  our  Saviour  had  been  in 
Egypt";  this  Celsus,  though  he  raises  a  monstrous  story 
about  it,  is  so  far  from  denying  that  he  tells  us  our  Saviour 
learned  the  art  of  magic  in  that  country.     ''  That  Pontius 


A   CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES.  7 

Pilate  was  governor  of  Judea ;  that  our  Saviour  was  brought 
into  judgment  before  him,  and  by  him  condemned  and  cru- 
cified" ;  this  is  recorded  by  Tacitus.  "  That  many  miraculous 
cures,  and  works  out  of  the  ordinary  course  of  nature,  were 
wrought  by  Him";  this  is  confessed  by  Julian,  the  apostate, 
and  Hierocles,  all  of  them  not  only  pagans,  but  professed 
enemies  and  persecutors  of  Christianity.  "  That  our  Saviour 
foretold  several  things  which  came  to  pass  according  to  His 
predictions";  this  was  attested  by  Phlegon  in  his  annals,  as 
we  are  assured  by  the  learned  Origen.  "  That  at  the  time  when 
our  Saviour  died,  there  was  a  miraculous  darkness  and  a  great 
earthquake";  this  is  recorded  by  the  same  Phlegon,  the 
Trallian,  who  was  likewise  a  pagan,  and  freeman  to  Adrian, 
the  emperor. — See  ^^The  Evidences  of  the  Christian  Reli- 
gion, ' '  Volume  Illy  ' '  The  Works  of  Joseph  Addison. ' ' 


HENRY  MILLS  ALDEN, 

Journalist ;  Managing  Editor  of  Harper's  Magazine. 

REGARD  Christ  as  the  Life  of  life— the  creative  life; 
and  the  Bible  as  the  Book  of  books — a  creative  com- 
munication.    My  faith  is  in  the  Resurrection  through 
the  power  of  Eternal  Life ;  in  what  form  I  know  not, 
but  I  know  in  what  similitude — in  the  likeness  of  the  Son  of 

God.  q//~^}H-    C^-^<3T^^' 


ALFRED  AUSTIN, 

Poet  Laureate  of  Great  Britain. 

O  God,  the  Father,  and  the  Son, 
And  Holy  Spirit.  Three  in  One, 
Beginning,  End  of  all  we  be, 
Thanksgiving,  praise,  eternity. 


8  A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

GUSTAVUS  ADOLPHUS, 

King  of  Sweden.     (1594-1632.) 

[This  selection  was  first  written  in  prose  during  163 1,  but 
was  afterward  changed  to  verse  at  the  hands  of  another.] 

Mr 

jSyJx?^  true  as  God's  own  Word  is  true, 
I  ra^  Not  earth  nor  hell  with  all  its  crew 
^  ©^  Against  us  shall  prevail. 

A  jest  and  byword  are  they  grown  ; 
God  is  with  us ;  we  are  His  own  ; 
Our  victory  can  not  fail. 

Amen !    Lord  Jesus,  grant  our  prayer ; 
Great  Captain,  now  Thine  arm  make  bare; 

Fight  for  us  again  ! 
So  shall  Thy  saints  and  martyrs  raise 
A  mighty  chorus  to  Thy  praise, 

World  without  end.    Amen. 


SIR  CHARLES  UMPHERSTON  AITCHESON, 

Late  Lieutenant-Governor  of  the  Punjab.     (1832-1898.) 

^HE  Word  of  God  in  the  vulgar  tongue,  in  the  lan- 
guage spoken  and  understood  by  the  people,  is  our 
common  heritage.  Whatever  be  the  differences  which 
separate  us  into  churches,  however  varied  our  inter- 
pretations of  particular  passages  of  Holy  Scripture,  the  Bible 
is  yet  the  one  broad  foundation  of  the  faith  of  all  of  us;  the  one 
common  standard  by  which  we  try  every  creed  and  every 
Christian  work,  whether  it  be  of  God  or  whether  it  be  of 
man.  And,  therefore,  all  Christians  can  unite,  and  do  indeed 
rejoice  to  unite,  in  spreading  the  pure  Word  of  God,  without 
note  or  comment,  as  the  great  missionary  power  of  the 
world.  The  Bible  is  now  studied  in  India,  and  is  growingly 
appreciated  every  day.  Peshab  Chunder  Mozamdar,  the  pres- 
ent leader  of  the  advanced  Brahmos,  in  a  recent  public  lec- 
ture at  Lahore,  recommended  the  Bible  as  the  best  Book 
they  could  read,  and  the  diligent  study  of  Christ's  precepts 
therein  as  the  only  way  to  attain  purity  of  heart 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


So  the  leaven  is  working.  Christianity  is  in  the  air.  The 
personality  of  our  blessed  Lord  and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ  is 
impressing  itself  deeper  and  deeper  upon  the  people.  —  From 
a  speech  at  Oxford^  England^  1890,  before  the  Bible  Society, 


HIS  ROYAL  HIGHNESS  ARTHUR  WILLIAM 
PATRICK  ALBERT, 

Duke  of  Connaught;    Third  Son  of  Queen  Victoria, 

AVING  had  the  great  advantage  of  serving  in  dif- 
ferent parts  of  our  large  empire,  and  of  traveling  over 
a  great  deal  of  country  in  many  parts  of  the  world,  I, 
in  common  with  most  travelers,  appreciate — even 
more,  possibly,  than  those  at  home — the  great  benefits  of 
the  Word  of  God.  ...  I  am  able  personally  to  speak  of 
the  wonderful  advancement  that  has  been  made  in  India  in  the 
circulation  of  God's  Holy  Word.  Feeling,  as  I  do,  the  im- 
portance at  the  present  day  of  upholding  the  Bible  in  its 
simplicity  and  in  its  integrity,  I  trust  the  resolution  which 
I  have  proposed  will  not  fall  on  unwilling  ears.  We  live  in 
an  age  when  there  is  much  scepticism,  and,  unfortunately, 
much  selfishness  abroad,  and  I  am  sure  that  if  we  wish  to 
combat  these  evils  we  can  not  do  better  than  attack  them 
with  the  Bible  in  our  hands. — Extract  from  his  address  at  the 
British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society^  at  a  meeting  in  the  Man- 
sion House ^  London^  April  14,  1891. 


CHARLES  ABBOTT,    LORD   TENTERDEN. 

Chief  Justice  of  England.     (1762-1833.) 

RECOGNIZE  the  Books  of  the  Old  and  New  Testa- 
ment, according  to  the  authorized   version,  as  truly 
expressing  the  revealed  will  of  God. — Page  324,  Vol- 
ume TV^  '^  Lives  of  the   Chief  Justices  of  England^'*'* 
by  Lord  Campbell. 


lO  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

DAVID  HAYES  AGNEW, 

Physician  and  Surgeon.     {1818-1892.) 

AM  ask^d  what  I  think  of  Christ  and  the  Bible.  The 
Bible  I  believe  to  be  the  revelation  from  Heaven ;  the 
infallible  Word  of  God.  I  believe  in  Jesus  Christ,  the 
eternal  Son  of  God,  God-man,  through  whose  imputed 
merits  alone  can  any  mortal  be  saved.  The  historic  Christ 
is  the  hope  of  the  Church,  and  the  life  of  our  civilization. 


THOMAS   BAILEY  ALDRICH, 

Poet   and  Miscellaneous  W^riter. 
THE  CRESCENT  AND  THE  CROSS. 

IND  was  my  friend  who,  in  the  Eastern  land, 
Remembered  me  with  such  a  gracious  hand. 
And  sent  this  Moorish  Crescent,  which  has  been 
Worn  on  the  haughty  bosom  of  a  queen. 

I  place  beside  this  relic  of  the  Sun 

A  Cross  of  cedar,  brought  from  Lebanon  ; 

Once  borne,  perchance,  by  some  pale  monk,  who  trod 

The  desert  to  Jerusalem, — and  his  God. 

Here  do  they  he,  two  symbols  of  two  creeds, 
Each  meaning  something  to  our  human  needs ; 
Both  stained  with  blood,  and  sacred  made  by  faith, 
By  tears,  and  prayers,  and  martyrdom,  and  death. 

That  for  the  Moslem  is,  but  this  for  me ! 
The  waning  Crescent  lacks  divinity ; 
It  gives  me  dreams  of  battles,  and  the  woes 
Of  women  shut  in  dim  seraglios. 

But  when  this  Cross  of  simple  wood  I  see. 
The  Star  of  Bethlehem  shines  again  for  me ; 
And  glorious  visions  break  upon  my  glooni, 
The  patient  Christ,  and  Mary  at  the  tom?3 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  IT 

SIR  ARCHIBALD  ALISON, 

Scottish  Historian  and  Essayist.     (1792- 18674 

O  prophecy  of  our  Saviour  was  ever  more  completery 
accomplished  than  the  memorable  one  that  He 
came  to  bring  not  peace  on  earth,  but  a  sword.. 
The  reason  is  to  be  found  in  the  varieties  of  the 
human  mind;  the  different  lights  in  which  the  same  truths 
present  themselves  to  different  intellects. 

Christianity,  indeed,  is  destined  to  spread  mainly  by  its 
winning  the  hearts  of  men  ;  but  in  a  world  of  selfishness  and 
violence  it  is  not  this  alone  that  mankind  are  to  be  con- 
verted even  to  their  own  blessing ;  the  first  entrance  must 
sometimes  be  won  by  conquest;  and  he  who  bears  even  the 
olive  branch  and  Cross  in  one  hand  may  often  despair  of 
success  if  he  is  not  prepared,  when  necessary,  to  grasp  the 
naked  sword  in  the  other. — Page  50,  Volume  /;  312,  Vol- 
ume 11^ ''  Alison's  Europe  ;  From  the  Fall  of  Napoleon  to  the 
Accession  of  Louis  Napoleon,^'' 


WASHINGTON  ALLSTON,* 

Painter  and  Author.   (1779-1843.) 

NEVER  lighted  on  any  truth  which  I  inwardly  felt, 

that,  by  following  it  out,  did  not  find  its  illustration 

and  confirmation  in  some  great  doctrine  of  the  Bible 

— the  only  true  philosophy,  the  soul  fountain  of  light 

— where  the  dark  questions  of  the  understanding  which  have 

so  long  stood,  like  chaotic  spectres,  between  the  fallen  soul 

and  its  reason,  at  once  lose  their  darkness  and  their  terror. — 

Lectures  on  Art.  ''by  Washington  Alls  ton. ' ' 

*He  once  wrote  a  long  and  able  essay  on  Chrislianity  as  supplying  ai* 
inherent  want  of  humanity.  A  most  humble  being  he  was  before  God.  Ir* 
Jesus  Christ  and  the  great  atonement  was  his  only  trust. — Page  152,  ift 
"  Artist  Biographers.'' 


la  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

FISHER  AMES,* 

Pep  Statesman.     (1758-1808.) 

^HOULD  not  the  Bible  regain  the  place  it  once  held  as 
a  school-book  ?  Its  morals  are  pure,  its  examples 
are  captivating  and  noble.  The  reverence  for  the 
sacred  Book  that  thus  is  early  impressed  lasts  longest. 
If  not  impressed  in  infancy,  it  probably  never  takes  firm  hold 
upon  the  mind.  One  consideration  more  is  important:  In 
no  Book  is  there  so  good  English,  so  pure  and  so  elegant, 
and  by  teaching  all  the  same  they  will  speak  alike,  and  the 
Bible  will  justly  remain  the  standard  of  language  as  well  as 
of  faith.  I  will  hazard  the  assertion  that  no  man  ever  did  or 
ever  will  become  truly  eloquent  without  being  a  constant 
reader  of  the  Bible,  and  an  admirer  of  the  purity  and  sublim- 
ity of  its  language. — "  Memoirs ^^^  by  J.  T.  Kirkland. 

-•-He  was  a  firm  believer  in  Jesus  Christ  as  his  personal  Saviour,  and  a 
well-known  champion  of  the  Bible  being  used  in  our  public  schools. — 
J.  T.  Kirkland. 


HENRI  FRIEDERIC  AMIEL, 

Swiss  Prose  Writer,      {1821-1881.) 

HAVE  just  read  seven  chapters  of  the  Gospel.  Noth- 
ing calms  me  so  much.  To  live  in  God  and  to  do  His 
work,  this  is  religion,  salvation,  life  eternal ;  this  is  both 
the  effect,  sign  and  love  of  the  Holy  Spirit ;  this  is  the 
new  man  announced  by  Jesus,  and  the  new  life  into  which 
we  enter  by  the  second  birth. 

I  heard  a  sermon  this  morning  on  the  Holy  Spirit,  good 
but  insufficient.  Why  was  I  not  edified?  Because  there 
was  no  unction.  Why  was  there  no  unction?  Because 
Christianity  from  a  rationalistic  point  of  view  is  a  Christian- 
ity of  dignity,  not  of  humility ;  the  special  Christian  accent 
is  wanting.  My  impression  is  always  the  same — faith  is  made 
a  poor,  dull  thing  by  these  attempts  to  reduce  it  to  simple 
psychology.     I  am  impressed  with  a  feeling  of  inappropriate- 


A   CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES.  I3 

ness  and  maliase  at  the  sight  of  philosophy  in  the  pulpit. 
"  They  have  taken  away  my  Saviour,  and  I  know  not  where 
they  have  laid  Him,"  so  the  common  folk  have  a  right  to 
say,  and  I  repeat  it  with  them. — ^^AmieVs  Journal^''  trans- 
lated by  Mrs.  Humphrey  Ward. 


ANDRE  MARIE  AMPERE, 

French  Electrician  and  Scientific  Writer.     (1775-1836.) 

BELIEVE  in  God,  in  His  providence,  in  a  future  life,  in 
the  recompense  of  the  good ;  in  the  punishment  of  the 
wicked ;  in  the  sublimity  and  truth  of  the  doctrines  of 
Christ,  in  a  revelation  of  this  doctrine  by  a  special 
divine  inspiration  for  the  salvation  of  the  human  race.* — 
Page  334,  ^^ Modern  Frenchmen^''''  by  Philip  Gilbert  Hamerton. 

*  Found  on  a  piece  of  paper  after  his  death. 


HANS  CHRISTIAN  ANDERSEN, 

Danish  Novelist  and  Story- Writer.   (1805-1875.) 

REPRESSED  in  spirit,  I  took  up  my  Bible,  which  lay 
before  me,  for  an  oracle ;  opened  it,  pointed  blindly 
at  a  place,  and  read  :  "O  Israel,  thou  hast  destroyed 
thyself;  but  in  Me  is  thine  help."  {Hosea.)  Yes, 
Father,  I  am  weak,  but  Thou  lookest  into  my  heart  and  wilt 
be  my  help. 

Here  also  (Copenhagen)  I  obtained  a  place,  after  I  had 
given  seven  pieces.  The  different  periods  of  my  life  passed 
before  me.  I  knelt  down  upon  the  stage  and  repeated  our 
Lord's  Prayer,  just  at  the  spot  where  I  now  sit  amongst  the 
first  and  distinguished  men.  Humility  and  prayer  unto  God 
for  strength  to  deserve  happiness,  filled  my  heart.  May  He 
always  enable  me  to  preserve  these  feelings.  —  From  "  The 
Story  of  My  Life^^''  by  Hans  Christian  Andersen. 


14  A   CLOUD   OP   WITNESSES. 

ALBERT. 

King  of  Saxony. 

|HIS  declaration  was  tielegraphed  Emperor  William  by 
King  Albert  at  the  time  the  Church  of  the  Redeemer 
in  Jerusalem  was  dedicated:     '*Your  belief  is  my  be- 
lief, for  in  Christ  Jesus  lies  my  redemption  for  time 
and  eternity.''—**  The  Berlm  Echo.'''* 


JOHN  ALBION  ANDREW, 

Statesman,  Governor  of  Massachusetts.     (1818-1867.) 

HRISTIANITY,  the  true,  the  perfect,  the  last  revela- 
tion to  the  human  soul,  makes  her  commanding  ap- 
peal to  us  as  men  and  as  scholars.  Let  the  lips  of  the 
orator  be  touched  with  a  living  coal  from  ofF  the  altar 
of  the  lyord  ;  let  the  poet  breathe  the  airs  of  Palestine,  once 
vocal  with  the  music  and  the  harp  of  David ;  let  the  philos- 
opher be  instructed  by  the  profound  metaphysics  of  Paul ;; 
let  the  whole  man  be  purified  by  the  simple,  the  sublime  re- 
velation of  the  Gospel.  —  Page  195,  ^''Memoir  of  Governor 
Andrew ^^^  with  Personal  Reminiscences^  by  P.  W.  Chandler. 


JAMES  BURRILL  ANGELL, 

President  of  the  University  of  Michigan. 

BEIvIEVE  that  Jesus  Christ  was  the  Son  of  Man  and 
the  Son  of  God ;  that  He  came  to  earth  on  a  divine 
mission  to  enable  us  to  have  eternal  life  ;  and  I  believe 
the  Bible  contains  the  message  of  divine  truth  for  our 
illumination,  guidance,  and  salvation.  Through  Christ  and 
the  Holy  Scriptures  we  have  a  revelation  of  God's  will  con- 
cerning man,  and  of  His  fatherly  love  to  man. 


A   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES. 


15 


MICHAEL  ANGELO, 

Italian  Painter  and  Sculptor.     (1475-1564.) 

Sculpture  and  painting,  rival  arts, 
Ye  can  no  longer  soothe  my  breast ; 

'Tis  love  Divine  alone  imparts 
The  promise  of  a  future  rest. 

On  that  my  steadfast  soul  relies, 

My  trust  the  Cross,  my  hope  the  skies. 


GIVE  my  soul  to  God,  my  body  to  the  earth,  and 
my  worldly  possessions  to  my  nearest  kin,  charging 
them  to  remember  the  sufferings  of  Jesus  Christ-  - 
Live  on  (to  his  father),  and  if  you  are  not  to  share  in  the 
honors  of  this  world  like  other  citizens,  it  is  enough  to  eat 
bread,  and  to  live  in  the  faith  of  Christ,  as  I  do,  for  I  live 
humbly ;  and  I  do  not  care  for  the  life  and  honors  of  this 
world  ,  .  .  .  God  forgive  us  all ! — ^^Life  of  Michael 
Angelc     bv  Charles  Clement. 


l6  A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

HENRY  BOWEN  ANTHONY, 

United  States  Senator.     (1815-1884.) 

E  knew,  tor  God,  whose  prophet  he  was,  revealed 
it  to  him,  that  the  great  principles  for  which  he  con- 
tended, and  for  which  he  suffered,  founded  in  the 
eternal  fitness  of  things,  would  endure  forever.  He 
did  not  inquire  if  his  name  would  survive  a  generation.  In 
his  vision  of  the  future  he  saw  mankind  emancipated  from 
the  thralldom  of  priestcraft,  from  the  bhndness  of  bigotry, 
from  the  cruelties  of  intolerance.  He  saw  the  nations  walk- 
ing forth  into  the  liberty  wherewith  Christ  had  made  them 
free. — Eulogy  of  Roger  Williams^  in  Congress^  January  9, 
1872. 

SAMUEL  CHAPMAN  ARMSTRONG, 

General  and  Principal  of  Hampton  Normal  and  Agricultural  Institute, 

(1837-1893.) 

^HB  best  thought  and  richest  experience  of  the  world 
thus  far  give  an  overwhelming  testimony  to  the  effect 
that  Christ  and   the  Scriptures  are  the  foundation  of 
all  good  and  of  all  hope  in  the  world.     In  them  only 
is  there  progress  and  salvation  for  mankind. 


LORD  ALVERSTONE 

Lord  Chief-Justice  of  England. 

WOULD  give  all  my  success  to  have  done  one-tenth 
the  good  these  martyr-missionaries  have  done  for  the 
extension  of  the  Gospel.  Their  self-sacrifice,  courage 
and  devotion  to  our  Christian  faith  ought  to  inspire 
those  whose  career  has  not  been  chosen  to  go  forward  and 
give  their  best  service  for  the  kingdom  of  our  Lord  and 
Saviour.  ,  ^^^ 


REPRESENTATIVE  MEN. 


Wendell  Phillips, 

Page  J  60. 

James  G.  Blaine,  Henry  M.  Stanley, 

Page  J4.  Page  422. 

Lord  Shaftesbury, 

Page  99. 

James  Russell  Lowell,  John  A.  Logan, 

Page  294.  Page  290. 

Major-General  Gordon, 

Page  iy6. 


A   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES.  I7 

JOHN  ARMSTRONG, 

Congressman,  United  States  Senator,  Diplomat,  and  General. 

(1725-1795.) 

OR  is  this  spiritual  and  moral  disease  to  be  healed 
by  a  better  education,  a  few  external,  transient 
thoughts.  It  requires  the  hand  of  the  great  Physi- 
cian, the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  by  His  Holy  Spirit,  and 
belief  of  the  truth  renewing  the  state  of  the  mind  and  dispo- 
sition of  the  heart  as  well,  thereby  leading  the  soul  from  a 
sense  or  fear  of  the  wrath  of  God,  the  penalty  of  this  broken 
law,  and  helpless  in  itself,  to  flee  to  the  merits  of  Jesus. — 
Page  78, "  Centennial  Biography^  Men  of  Mark  of  the  Cum- 
berland Valley^ ' '  by  Alfred  Nevin. 


ERNST  MORITZ  ARNDT, 

German  Pat.iot,  Poet,  and  Professor  of  History  at  Bonn. 
(1769-1860.) 
^T  is  the  Dayspring  from  on  high, 
The  adamantine  rock, 
Whence  never  storm  can  make  me  fly, 

That  fears  no  earthquake's  shock. 
My  Jesus  Christ,  my  sure  Defence, 

My  Saviour,  and  my  Light 
That  shines  within  and  scatters  thence 
Dark  phantoms  of  the  night. 


ROBERT  ANDERSON, 

Assistant  Police  Commissioner  of  the  Metropolis  ;  Head  of  Criminal 
Investigation  Department  in  London  since  1888. 

.HE  Bible  has  stimulated  and  energized  all  that  has 
been  the  best  and  greatest  in  Christendom  for  the 
last  three  centuries ;  it  has  moulded  and  ennobled  the 
character  of  the  Anglo-Saxon  race. 
We  can  reach  the  living  Word  only  through  the  written 
Word.  What  a  banknote  is  to  the  gold  it  represents,  the 
written  Word  is  to  the  living  Word.  What  the  Saviour  is  to 
those  who  trust  in  Him  no  one  can  appreciate  more  fully 
than  one  whose  life  is  full  of  the  responsibilities  of  public 
affairs.  Companionship  with  Christ  kills  all  sense  of  hurry 
and  worry. 


l8  A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

MATTHEW  ARNOLD, 

English  Essayist  and    Poet.   {1822-1888.) 

>RY  all  ways  of  righteousness  you  can  think  of,  and 
you  will  find  that  no  way  brings  you  to  it  except  the 
way  to  Jesus.  Attempt  to  do  without  Israel's  God 
that  makes  for  righteousness,  and  you  will  find  out 
your  mistake.  Attempt  to  reach  righteousness  by  any  way 
except  thai  of  Jesus  ^  and  you  will  find  out  also  your  mistake ! 
This  is  the  thing  that  can  prove  itself  to  be  so,  and  it  will 
prove  itself  because  it  is  so. — "  The  Bible  and  the  Nineteenth 
Century ^^'^  by  L.  T.  Townsend. 

To  the  Bible  men  will  return  because  they  can  not  do 
without  it.  Because  happiness  is  our  being's  end  and  aim, 
and  happiness  belongs  to  righteousness,  and  righteousness  is 
revealed  in  the  Bible,  for  this  simple  reason  will  men  return 
to  the  Bible,  just  as  a  man  who  tried  to  give  up  food,  think- 
ing it  was  a  vain  thing,  and  that  he  could  do  without  it,  would 
return  to  food  ;  or  a  man  who  tried  to  give  up  sleep,  think- 
ing it  was  a  vain  thing,  and  he  could  do  without  it,  would  re- 
turn to  sleep. — Chautauqua  Text-Book^  No,  8. 


P.  M.  ARTHUR, 

Grand    Chief  Brotherhood    of   Locomotive   Engineers. 

ACCEPTED  Jesus  Christ  some  thirty-five  years  ago  as 
the  only  true  and  divine  Saviour,  and  He  has  been  my 
unfailing  Friend  ever  since.  I  believe  the  Holy  Bible 
is  the  Word  of  God,  and  that  men  spake  or  wrote  the 
Scriptures  as  they  were  moved  by  the  Holy  Ghost.  "  Blessed 
is  he  who  readeth,  and  they  that  hear  the  words  of  this 
prophecy,  and  keep  those  things  that  are  written  therein." 


/g^^ 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  19. 

SIR  EDWIN  ARNOLD, 

English    Poet. 

EXTRACTS  FROM  ''  THE  LIGHT  OF  THE  WORI.D." 

Oh,  a  dear  word 
Spoke  first  to  me,  and,  after  me,  to  all, 
That  all  may  always  know  that  He  is  the  Lord, 
And  Death  is  dead,  and  new  times  come  for  men ; 
And  Heaven's  ways  justified,  and  Christ  alive, 
Whom  we  saw  die,  nailed  on  the  cruel  Cross  ! 
For  while  I  lay  there  sobbing  at  his  feet 
The  word  He  spake — my  Lord !  my  King !  my  Christ ! 

The  cruel  Cross; 

The  savage  nails,  the  scroll,  the  sponge; 

The  cry,  ''Eloi,  lama,  sabacthani !'' — then 

His  death-word,  '*  It  is  finished  !  "  and  the  death; 

And  spear-head  deep  into  His  side  plunged. 

And  the  Centurion  crying,  "Verily, 

This  was  the  Son  of  God !  " 

In  writing  "The  Light  of  Asia,"  I  had  no  thought  of 
instituting  a  comparison  between  Buddhism  and  Christian- 
ity, as  the  critics  have  generally  supposed.  "The  Light  of 
Asia"  must  be  regarded  simply  as  a  poem.  I  would  not 
give  one  verse  of  the  Sermon  on  the  Mount  for  twenty  epic 
poems  like  the  Mahabharata,  nor  exchange  the  Golden  Rule 
for  twenty  Upanishads. —  To  Doctor  Ashmore^  en  route  for 
Yokohama, 


TIMOTHY  SHAY  ARTHUR, 

Story-Writer.     (1809-1885  ) 

>HE  Bible  is  the  Word  of   God,  or  divine  truth,  and 
therefore  that  must  be  the  basis  of  religion. 

In  the  "fullness  of  time,"  when  man  was  just 
about  extinguishing  in  him  every  good  that  he  had 
received  at  his  creation,  and  on  the  eve  of  perishing  in  con- 
sequence, the  Lord  himself— "The  Mighty  God,  the  Ever- 
lasting Father,  the  Prince  of  Peace  "—assumed  human  nature 
through  a  woman,  and  came  down  in  the  consciousness  of 


30  A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

man  in  his  lowest  estate  of  evil,  and  received  on  Himself  all 
the  assaults  and  temptations  of  hell,  and  by  His  own  divine 
power  conquered  the  evil,  and  remanded  the  spirits  of  dark- 
ness to  their  own  gloomy  abodes. — Pages  194,  195,  ^^ Arthur'' s 
Advice  to  Young  Men. ' ' 


JOHN  A.  BINGHAM, 

Congressman,  1855-1863,  1865-1873;  Judge  Advocate  at  the  Trial  of  Presi- 
dent Lincoln's  assassin  ;  one  of  the  Managers  President  Johnson's 
Impeachment  Trial ;    from   1873-1885,  Minister  to  Japan. 

WAS  instructed  in  early  youth  by  precept  and  example 
of  my  father  and  mother.  I  thereby  became  convinced 
of  the  truth  of  Christ's  teaching,  and  of  the  inspiration 
of  the  Holy  Scriptures.  My  convictions  on  this  subject 
must  suffice  for  me;  I  will  not  surrender  them  to  any  man. 
I  do  not  hesitate  to  say,  however,  as  a  strong  belief  of  mine, 
that  Christ,  by  His  living  and  His  dying  and  His  reappear- 
ance after  crucifixion  brought  life  and  immortality  to  light. 
It  seems  to  me  not  to  be  a  question  that  the  Christ  of  the 
New  Testament  lived 'and  will  live  forevermore.  My  inner 
consciousness  teaches  me  that  in  His  discourse  on  the  Mount 
He  is  chiefly  revealed  to  be  more  than  a  man,  and  the  He 
was  and  is  Divine. 


(Z-'^d  ^ 


EDWARD  W.  BOK, 

Editor  of  "  The  Ladies'  Home  Journal.' 


^HERE  are  myriads  of  people  on  this  earth  who 
believe  in  the  divinity  of  Christ;  people  of  the 
finest  minds  and  the  greatest  learning.  It  is  not  a 
mark  of  intelligence  to  question  divine  things.  The 
'divinity  of  Christ  is  a  question  of  the  heart.  No  one  who 
studies  the  Life  of  Christ  can  fail  to  believe  that  in  Him  the 
world  had  a  Being  unlike  any  other  man,  and  His  own 
teachings,  His  own  words,  His  own  life  are  the  best  proofs 
of  His  Divinity. —  The  Ladies''  Home  Journal.,  September^ 
1894. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  21 

JOHANN  SEBASTIAN  BACH, 

German  Musical  Composer.    (1685-1750.) 

^N  reference  to  his  cantata,  "Jesus,  meine  Freude," 
his  biographer  says :  "In  these  he  discourses  with  the 
fervency  of  faith  on  the  importance  of  Christ's  atoning 
work.  The  congregational  feeHng  infused  into  these 
subjects,  as  being  appropriate  to  their  general  dogmatic  pur- 
port, is  pointedly  applied  to  the  Christian  life  by  the  inter- 
vening verse ;  and  thus  the  germ  of  Protestant  Christianity 
is  embodied  in  this  great  work With  keen  dog- 
matic certainty  he  confines  the  deepest  devotion  to  Christ. 

"  Bach's  knowledge  of  the  Bible,  as  shown  by  his  church 
cantatas,  was  evidently  as  extensive  as  his  acquaintance  with 
hymns.  We  see  from  his  owning  "  Bunting's  Itiiterarium 
SacrcB  Scripture  "  that  he  must  have  tried  to  realize  Bible 
history  as  vividly  and  as  picturesquely  as  possible.  .  .  . 
Judge  as  we  may  the  scientific  value  of  such  a  work,  it  is  at 
any  rate  an  evidence  that  Bach  did  not  regard  his  Bible 
merely  as  a  repertory  of  texts  for  lyric  verses,  or  even  for 
dogmatic  argument,  but  that  he  tried  to  make  himself  famil- 
iar with  it  in  every  sense." — Pages  601  and  267,  Volume  II I ^ 
^^John  Sebastian  Bach :  His  Work  and  Influence  in  the 
Music  of  Ger^nany^'^  by  Philipp  Spitta. 


JAMES  MONTGOMERY  BAILEY, 

Humorist.     (1841-1894.) 

REGARD  Jesus  Christ  as  the  Helper  of  men,  and  the 
Redeemer  of  souls.  To  me  He  is  a  Companion,  a 
Helper,  and  a  Saviour.  I  have  unbounded  faith  in  His 
love,  mercy,  and  power.  The  Bible  I  believe  to  be 
the  revealed  Word  of  God,  and  I  esteem  it  with  reverence 
and  affection.  Its  promises  are  my  inspiration,  and  its  truths 
a  "  Lamp  unto  my  feet,  and  a  light  unto  my  path." 


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A  CIvOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 


FRANCIS  BACON, 

Philosopher,  and  Lord  High  Chancellor  of  England.      (1561-1626.) 

BEIvIEVE  that 
the  Word  of  God, 
whereby  His  will  is 
revealed,  continued 
in  revelation  and  tradi- 
tion with  Moses;  and 
that  the  Scriptures  were 
from  Moses'  time  to  the 
time  of  the  Apostles  and 
Evangelists ;  in  whose 
ages,  after  the  coming  of 
the  Holy  Ghost,  the 
teacher  of  all  truth,  the 
book  of  Scripture  was 
shut  and  closed,  so  as  to 
receive  no  new  addition,  and  the  Church  hath  no  power 
after  the  Scriptures  to  teach  or  command  anything  con- 
trary to  the  written  Word. 

I  believe  that  Jesus,  the  Lord,  became  in  the  flesh  a 
sacrificer  and  a  sacrifice  for  sin ;  a  satisfaction  and  price 
paid  to  the  justice  of  God ;  a  meriter  of  Glory  and  the  King- 
dom ;  a  pattern  of  all  righteousness;  a  preacher  of  the  Word, 
^which  Himself  was ;  a  finisher  of  the  ceremonies ;  a  corner- 
stone to  remove  the  separation  between  Jew  and  Gentile ; 
an  intercessor  for  the  Church ;  a  Lord  of  nature  in  His  mir- 
acles;  a  conqueror  of  death  and  the  power  of  darkness  in 
His  resurrection ;  and  that  He  fulfilled  the  whole  counsel  of 
God,  performing  all  His  sacred  offices,  and  anointing  on  earth, 
accomplishing  the  whole  work  of  the  redemption  and  resti- 
tution of  man  to  a  state  superior  to  the  angels,  whereas  the 
state  of  man  by  creation  was  inferior;  and  reconciled  and 
-established  all  things  according  to  the  eternal  will  of  the 
Father. — Pages  154  and  152,  Volume  11^  ^''Literary  and  Re- 
ligious   Works  of  Francis  Bacon,^'' 


A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES.  2^ 

JAMES  H.  BAKER, 

President  of  the  University  of  Colorado. 

^HE  right  view  of  the  world  is  essentially  poetic,  and 
the  truest  poetry  includes  faith  and  reverence.  With- 
out expressing  the  full  extent  of  my  belief,  I  claim,  at 
least,  that  he  is  not  philosophical  who  does  not 
recognize  the  profound  suggestiveness  of  the  religious  senti- 
ment in  man,  and  does  not  perceive  that  Christianity  is  the 
brightest  blossom  of  religious  development,  and  that  the 
Bible  is  the  best  guide  for  faith  and  conduct. 


JOHN  BACON, 

English  Sculptor.     (1740-1799.) 

Y  his  will  he  ordered  a  plain  tablet  for  his  grave  at 
Tottenham,  Court  Road  Chapel,  with  this  inscription 
after  name  and  date: 

WHAT  I  WAS  AS  AN  ARTIST, 

SEEMED  TO  ME  OF  SOME  IMPORTANCE 

WHILE  I  LIVED  ; 

WHAT  I  REALLY  WAS  AS  A  BELIEVER 

IN  CHRIST  JESUS, 

IS  THE  ONLY  THING  OF  IMPORTANCE 

TO  ME  NOW. 

What  can  I  do  with  respect  to  the  next  w6rld  without  my 
Bible  ?  I  find  myself  in  the  midst  of  system  of  deep  moral 
disorder  and  perpetual  vicissitude.  No  philosopher  offers 
anything  that  meets,  and,  much  less,  relieves,  my  case.  One 
cheering  light  alone  shines  into  this  our  moral  darkness.  It 
shows  me  the  holy  law  I  ought  to  obey,  and  declares  my 
true  character  as  a  transgressor  from  my  birth. 

In  such  a  case  dare  I  venture   my  soul  on  conjectures? 


24 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


Its  infinite  wisdom,  holiness,  power,  and  love  unite  in  ap- 
pointing my  ransom  only  through  a  Saviour  on  His  Cross; 
God  forbid  that  I  should  glory  save  in  that  alone  !  There  I 
see  the  perfections  of  God  harmonized,  His  law  magnified,  the 
evil  of  sin  exposed.  I  tremble  at  the  thought  of  being  found 
negligent  under  a  constitution  in  which  God  the  Father  is 
willing  to  become  my  Father;  God  the  Son,  my  Redeemer; 
God  the  Spirit,  my  guide,  sanctifier,  and  comfort. —  Volume 
IIl\  ^^ Short  Biographies  for  the  People ^^"^  by  James  Macaulay. 


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^. 

GEORGE  BANCROFT, 

Historian.     (1800-1891.) 

^iURlTANISM  had 
exalted  the  laity. 
.  For  him 
the  wonderful  coun- 
sels of  the  Almighty  had 
appointed  a  Saviour;  for 
him  the  laws  of  nature  had 
been  compelled  and  consult- 
ed, the  heavens  had  open- 
ed, the  earth  had  quaked, 
the  Sun  had  veiled  his  face, 
and  Christ  had  died  and 
risen  again. —  Page  318, 
Volume  /,  ''^History  of  the 
United  States  of  America^'*'* 
by  George  Bancroft. 
For  the  regeneration  of  the  world  it  was  requisite  that  the 
Divine  Being  should  enter  the  abodes  and  hearts  of  men  and 
dwell  there  ;  that  a  belief  in  Him  should  be  received  which 
would  include  all  truth  respecting  His  essence;  that  He 
should  be  known,  not  as  a  distant  Providence  of  boundless 
power  and  uncertain  and  inactive  will,  but  as  God  present  in 
the  flesh Amid  the  deep    sorrows  of  humanity 


A   CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  25 

during  the  sad  conflict  which  was  protracted  during  centuries 
for  the  overthrow  of  the  past  and  the  reconstruction  of  so- 
ciety,   the  consciousness  of  an  incarnate  God  carried  peace 

into  the  bosom  of  humanity This  doctrine  once 

communicated  to  man,  was  not  to  be  eradicated.  It  spread  as 
widely,  as  swiftly,  and  as  silently  as  the  light,  and  the  idea 
of  God  With  Us  dwelt  and  dwells  in-  every  system  of 
thought  that  can  pretend  to  vitality ;  in  every  oppressed 
people,  whose  struggles  to  be  free  have  the  promise  of  success; 
in  every  soul  that  sighs  for  redemption. — From  his  address 
vn  "  The  Progress  of  Mankind^^^ pages  502  and  504,  ^''Literary 
and  Historical  Miscellanies ^^^  by  George  Bancroft. 


PHINEAS  TAYLOR  BARNUM, 

Exhibitor  and  Philanthropist.     (1810-1891.) 

^HRIST  was  sent  into  the  world  by  our  kind  Father  in 
Heaven  to  teach  that  "God  is  love";  that  love  is 
the  fulfilling  of  the  law ;  and  turn  us  away  from  our 
transgressions  by  showing  us  that  the  "way  of  the 
transgressor  is  hard,"  and  always  will  be  hard  as  long  as  we 
transgress ;  but  charity,  unselfishness,  and  a  godly  life  is  filled 
with  joy  and  peace — that  at  the  last  the  Almighty  Father, 
being  Almighty,  and  being  our  Father,  will  bring  about  im- 
mediate harmony. 

The  old  Bible  I  believe  to  be  as  correct  a  history  as  could 
have  been  formed  in  remote  ages — containing  accounts  of 
various  lives  and  experiences  by  which  we  ought  to  profit. 
The  New  Testament  abounds  in  testimony  of  the  undying 
love  of  our  Saviour  for  all,  and  especially  for  the  poor,  the 
unfortunate,  and  the  erring.  His  mission  was  to  teach  them, 
and  to  save  them  from  their  sins  by  reconciling  them  to 
their  Heavenly  Father,  and  not  reconciling  Him  to  His 
created  beings,  for  He  was  never  unreconciled. 


Cc^cc^^^c^^ 


26  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

DANIEL  PRATT  BALDWIN, 

Lawyer;  late  Attorney-General  of  Indiana. 


/  'ESUS  CHRIST  hath  brought  Life  and  Immortality 

^     to  light  through  the  Gospel."     He  taught  Life  and 

Q^!^  lyight  through  His  doctrine  of  self-sacrifice  and  love, 

which  He  made,  on  the  human  side,  the  corner-stone 

of  His  religion ;    and   Immortality  through  His  resurrection 

from  the  dead,  which  was  His   crowning   miracle.     Without 

the  Resurrection,  the  future  life  is  only  a   dreary   perhaps. 

No   right-minded  man,  not  even    a  so-called     sceptic,   can 

deny  the  immense  indebtedness  of  humanity  to  Him,  or  His 

supreme  title  to  the  sweetest  words  tongue  ever  uttered — 

"Our  Saviour!" 


NEWTON  BATEMAN, 

Late  President  of  Knox  College. 


HAVE  been  engaged  in  educational  work  nearly  all 
my  life.  I  am  personally  acquainted  with  hundreds 
of  teachers,  and  can  say  that  the  greatest  of  them  are 
earnest  Christians.  The  supreme  end  of  education  is 
the  development  of  the  noblest,  purest,  and  manliest  charac- 
ter, which  is  impossible  without  Christian  ideas  and  forces. 
History  confirms  the  conclusions  of  my  individual  experi- 
ence and  observation.  In  all  the  Christian  centuries  the 
world's  greatest  thinkers,  benefactors,  and  leaders  have  been 
great  believers  in  Christ  as  a  Saviour,  and  in  the  Bible  as 
the  Word  of  God.  Eliminate  the  Christian  element  from 
our  colleges,  and  their  strength  and  glory  are  gone. 


J\\^i^.C^'Cur--^^*^^T^^^^^  '- 


BRITONS  OF  WORLD-WIDE   FAME. 


JOHN   BRIGHT,  JAMES  ANTHONY  FROUDE, 

Page  48.  Page  i6r. 

DAVID   LIVINGSTONE,  WILLIAM   WILBERFORCE, 

Page  287.  Page  302 

JOHN    STUART    BLACKIE,  LORD  COLERIDGE. 

P(^gf33-  Page  I  OS- 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  27 

ALFRED  SMITH  BARNES, 

Publisher  and  Philanthropist.     (1817-1888.) 

^N  the  beginning  God  created  all  things  for  His  own 
pleasure.  He  created  man  after  His  own  image,  but 
through  him  came  disobedience  and  sin,  of  which  the 
penalty  was  death.  Then  in  divine  compensation 
came  the  promise  of  salvation  through  the  Messiah  who  should 
come,  which  promise  illuminates  the  pages  of  the  Old  Testa- 
ment with  hope  and  joy  from  Moses  to  Malachi.  The  Proph- 
et Isaiah  said,  "Therefore  saith  the  Lord  God:  Behold  I 
lay  in  Zion  for  a  foundation  stone,  a  tried  stone,  a  precious 
corner-stone,  a  sure  foundation."  When  to  the  shepherds  on 
the  plains  of  Bethlehem  the  glory  of  the  I^ord  shone  round 
about  them,  and  a  multitude  of  the  heavenly  host  sang 
*' Glory  to  God  in  the  highest,  and  on  earth  peace,  good  will 
toward  men,"  the  prophecies  were  fulfilled,  the  corner-stone 
was  laid  on  earth. 

(Signed  by  his  own  hand)^  A.  S.  Barnes. 
October  26,  1887. 
— Extract  of  his  address  delivered  at  the  laying  of  the  corner- 
stone of ''^Barnes  Hall^^  Cornell  University. 


WILLIAM  AUGUSTUS  BEACH, 

Lawyer.     (1809- 1 884.) 

E  was  her  accepted  and  chosen  guide.  She  looked 
upon  him  with  a  veneration  second  only  to  that  with 
which  she  regarded  her  God.  Nay,  if  the  incarnate 
Christ  had  come  down,  with  the  glory  of  Calvary 
upon  His  brow,  and  the  love  of  sacrifice  in  His  eye,  she 
could  not  have  bowed  to  him  with  more  obedient  and  idol- 
atrous deference  than  this  woman  rendered  to  her  Pastor. — 
From  one  of  his  famous  pleas.  See  page  40,  ^^Distinguished 
Jimerican  Lawyer s^^  by  Henry  W.  Scott, 


ZS  A  CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

BERNARD  BARTON, 

English  Poet.     (1784-1849.) 

^  THE  BIBI,E. 

^  ^AMP  of  our  feet,  whereby  we  trace 
Our  path  when  wont  to  stray ; 
3oStream  from  the  fountain  of  heavenly  grace, 
Brook  by  the  traveler'vS  way. 

Word  of  the  ever-living  God ; 

Will  of  His  glorious  Son ; 
Without  thee  how  could  earth  be  trod, 

Or  heaven  itself  be  won  ? 

Yet,  to  unfold  thy  hidden  worth, 

Thy  mysteries  to  reveal. 
That  Spirit  which  first  gave  thee  forth 

Thy  Volume  must  unseal. 


SIR  JOHN  BAYLEY, 

English  Judge  and  Author.     (1763-1841.) 

[AVID  lived  about  one  thousand  years  before  our 
Saviour,  and  the  Psalms  are  more  ancient  than  the 
writings  of  any  classic  now  extant.  Homer,  one  of 
the  earliest  classic  writers,  wrote  about  eight  hundred 
and  forty  years  before  the  birth  of  Christ,  and  above  one 
hundred  years  after  the  death  of  Solomon,  the  son  of  David, 
— ''^ Sir  John  Bayley^s  Book  of  Common  Prayer^''  page  239. 


JAMES  BURNIE  BECK, 

United  States  Senator.    (1822-1890.) 

.OMETIMES  we  public  men  get  worldly,  and,  perhaps, 
do  not  attend  to  our  religious  duties  as  we  ought, 
but  still  we  know  the  Bible  is  true,  and  that  the  only 
hope  of  the  world  is  the  Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ.  I 
was  brought  up  under  Henry  Duncan,  of  Scotland,  and  felt 
the  power  of  his  ministry,  and  have  felt  it  all  the  way 
through. — In  conversation  with  a  fellow  congressman  a  few 
days  before  death. 


OF  THE 

UNIVERSITY 


will 


A  CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES.  29 

LUDWIG  BEETHOVEN, 

Prussian  Musical  Composer.  (1770-1827.) 

^  ODAY  hap- 
pens to  be 
the  Lord's 
Day,  so    I 
quote    you 
something    from 
my  Bible:      ''See 
that   ye   love   one 
another  as  I  have 
loved  you." — 
^''Franklin  Square 
Song  Collection?'* 

No  friend  have 
I.  I  must  live  by 
myself  alone;  but  I 
know  well  that  God 
is  nearer  to  me 
than  others  in  my  art,  so  I  will  walk  fearlessly  with  Him. 
I  have  always  known  and  understood  Him. — From  ^^A 
Score  of  Musical  Composers ^^^  by  Nathan  Haskell  Dole, 


PETER  BAYNE, 

Scottish  Journalist  and  Author. 

E  see  Revelation  synchronous  with  the  history  of 
our  planet.  The  Word  in  which  the  redeeming 
Christ  is  revealed  becomes  precisely  commensu- 
rate with  the  time  in  which  the  creating  Christ 
has  exhibited  on  our  planet  His  creative  power.  The  closing 
books  of  the  New  Testament  tell  us  of  a  fire  which  will  in 
later  time  envelop  the  world.  The  first  book  of  the  Old 
Testament,  read  by  the  light  reflected  from  the  works  of 


^O  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

God,  points  us  to  a  commencing  fire  in  which  the  planet,  as 
now  constituted,  had  its  beginning.  From  fire  to  fire  spans 
the  arch  of  creation  ;  from  fire  to  fire  spans  the  arch  of  Reve- 
lation; Christ  the  Alpha  and  the  Omega  of  both. — Page  393, 
^^ Essays    in    Biography    and   Criticism^  "    by   Peter    Bayne. 


JAMES  BEATTIE, 

Scotch  Poet  and  Writer.  (1735-1803.) 

.HERE  is  not  a  book  on  earth  so  favorable  to  all  the 
kincl^  and  to  all  the  sublime  affections,  or  so  unfriendly 
to  hatred  and  persecution^  to  tyranny^  injustice^  and 
every  sort  of  malevolence  as  the  GOSPEL.  It 
breathes  nothing  throughout  but  mercy^  benevolence^  and 
peace.  .  .  .  Such  of  the  doctrines  of  the  Gospel  as  are 
level  to  human  capacity  appear  to  be  agreeable  to  the  purest 
truth  and  soundest  morality.  All  the  genius  and  learning  of 
the  heathen  world,  all  the  penetration  of  Pythagoras,  Soc- 
rates, and  Aristotle,  had  never  been  able  to  produce  such  a 
system  of  moral  duty^  and  so  rational  an  account  of  Provi- 
dence and  of  man,  as  is  to  be  found  in  the  New  Testament. 
- — Page  70,  *''' Allibone^ s  Prose  Quotations ^ 


SIR  RISDON  BENNETT, 

President  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Physicians  {1876-1891,)  {1809-1891.) 

^T  has  been  truly  said  that  "  the  real  evidence  of 
Christianity  is  in  its  power."  And  how  can  we  look 
round  the  world  and  fail  to  see  proof  of  this  power 
wherever  the  Gospel  is  known,  among  all  races  of 
mankind,  all  classes  of  society,  all  ranks  of  intellect.  What 
is  there  comparable  to  the  religion  of  Jesus  Christ  in  pro- 
moting the  happiness  and  welfare  of  mankind?  The  full 
influence  of  its  power,  even  as  regards  the  present  life,  we 
liave  indeed  yet  to  see ;  and  we  can  but  faintly  appreciate 
the  inestimable  light  as  shed  on  the  life  to  come,  the  full 
glory  of  which  has  yet  to  be  revealed. — Pages  41  and  42, 
^''Report  of  the  Christian  Evidence  Society^  1890." 


A  CLOUD  OF  WITNESSES.  31 

SIR.  CHARLES  BELL, 

British  Anatomist  and  Physiologist.    (1774-1842.) 

A''  viewing  the  Face  Reversed. — In  compassionating  a 

fellow  creature  it  is  not  natural  to  look  on  the  face 

(^^  reversed.      Yet  I  have  seen  in  a  modern  picture  a 

soldier  regarding  his  wounded  comrade,  dessus  dessouSy 
the  mouth  to  the  forehead,  the  eye  to  the  mouth.  The  im- 
mediate effect  was  a  want  of  sympathy — of  proper  feeling. 
Even  the  nurse  turns  her  head  in  correspondence  with  the 
face  of  the  infant.  Is  the  same  not  meant  by  the  Psalmist, 
'*  My  heart  said  unto  thee.  Thy  face.  Lord,  will  I  seek"? 
Thus,  in  looking  on  a  picture  of  our  Saviour,  dead,  lying  on 
the  knees  of  the  Madonna,  she  turns  her  head  nearly  paral- 
lel with  that  of  our  Redeemer,  which  produces  grace  and 
tenderness. — Page  121,  "^r/  Suggestions  from  the  Masters  ^'^ 
compiled  by  Susan  N.  Carter. 


JEREMIAH  SULLIVAN  BLACK, 

Lawyer;    United  States  Attorney-General  under  President 
Buchanan.     (1810-1883.) 

x>7^<^S  a  matter  of  fact,   Jesus  Christ  died  that  sinners- 

Ll^L  might  be  reconciled  to  God,  and  in  that  sense  He 

^  (c)^  died  for  them ;    that  is,  to  furnish  them  with  the 

means    of    averting    Divine    justice,  which    their 

crimes  had  provoked. 

A  man  who,  by  any  contrivance,  causes  his  own  offense  to 
be  visited  on  the  head  of  an  innocent  person  is  unspeak- 
ably depraved.  But  are  Christians  guilty  of  this  baseness, 
because  they  accept  the  blessings  of  an  institution  which 
their  great  Benefactor  died  to  establish?  Loyalty  to  the 
King  who  erected  a  most  magnificent  government  for  us  at 
the  cost  of  His  life — fidelity  to  the  Master  who  bought  us 
with  His  blood — is  not  the  fraudulent  substitution  in  place 
of  the  criminal. — See  ^''The  Claims  of  the  Christian  Relig- 
ions^ by  fudge  Blacky  in  ''^ North  American  Review  "  of  Au- 
gust^ 1 88 1. 


32 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 


JEAN  BAPTISTE  LE  MOYNE  BIENVILLE, 

Colonial  Governor  of  Louisiana,  and  Founder  of  New  Orleans. 
(1680-1768.) 

;N  the  name  of  the  Father,  etc.  Persuaded,  as  I  am,  of 
the  necessity  of  death,  and  the  uncertainty  of  the  hour, 
I  wish,  before  it  arrives,  to  put  my  affairs  in  order. 
First,  I  consign  my  soul  to  God.  ...  I  implore 
the  mercy  of  God  and  of  Jesus  Christ,  my  Saviour. — Froyn 
his  Will.  See  page  325  ^  ^''Jean  Baptiste  Le  Moyne^  Seuer 
de  Bienville ^^^  in  ^^ Makers  of  America  "  series^  by  Grace  King, 


OTTO  EDUARD  LEOPOLD  BISMARCK, 

Late  Prussian  Chancellor.     (1815-1898.) 

HATKVER  in  my  former  utterances  may  have 
applied  to  a  living  profession — to  a  profession  of 
living  Christian  faith  —  I  confess  quite  openly 
to-day,  and  I  do  not  flinch  from  making  this 
profession  publicly  or  in  my  own  house  at  any  and  every 
time.  But  it  is  precisely  my  living  evangelical  faith  which 
imposes  upon  me  the  obligation  to  protect  in  every  way 
the  high  office  confided  to  me  in  the  country  of  my  birth, 
to  serve  which  God  created  me. — Declared  in  Parliamentary 
Debate^  1849. 

I  firmly  believe  in  a  life  after  death.  .  .  .  Would  to 
God  that  apart  from  what  is  known  in  the  world  I  had  no 
other  sins  upon  my  soul,  for  which  I  only  hope  to  be  forgiven 
by  trusting  in  the  blood  of  Christ.  .  .  .  Deprive  me  of 
my  faith  and  you  rob  me  of  my  Fatherland.  Were  I  not  a 
stanch  Christian,  did  I  not  stand  upon  the  miraculous  basis 
of  religion,  you  would  never  have  possessed  a  Federal  Chan- 
cellor in  my  person. — Pages  351  and  353,  Volume  11^  of 
*" '  Prince  Bismarck :  an  Historical  Biography^ ' '  by  Charles 
Lowe. 


A  CLOUD  OF  WITNESSES.  33 

JOHN  STUART  BLACKIE, 

Professor  of  Greek,  University  of  Edinburg;  Scotch  Poet  and  Author. 
( 1 809-1 895.) 

AM  of  Opinion  that  in  Christ  Jesus  there  is  presented 
to  the  intelligent  eye  the  most  perfect  picture  of  a 
Divine  life  in  human  shape  that  earth  can  conceive, 
and  that  the  Holy  Bible  is  a  Book,  or  more  properly 
a  collection  of  Books,  with  a  common  inspiration,  which,  if 
studied  with  spiritual  sympathy  and  historical  discrimina- 
tion, will  approve  itself  the  surest  guide  to  a  noble,  happy, 
and  useful  life. 


T^T^^^^c^^ 


SIR  WILLIAM  BLACKSTONE, 

English  Jurist  and  Author  of  "  Commentaries."  (1723-1780.) 

<0  deny  the  possibility,  nay,  actual  existence,  of  witch- 
craft and  sorcery,  is  at  once  to  contradict  the  revealed 
Word  of  God  in  various  passages  both  of  the  Old  and 
New  Testament. 
The  preservation  of  Christianity  as  a  national  religion  is 
abstracted  from  its  own  intrinsic  truth,  of  the  utmost  conse- 
quence to  the  civil  state,  which  a  single  instance  will  suf- 
ficiently demonstrate.  The  belief  of  a  future  state  of  re- 
wards and  punishments,  the  entertaining  just  ideas  of  the 
main  attributes  of  the  Supreme  Being,  and  a  firm  persuasion 
that  He  superintends  and  will  finally  compensate  every  ac- 
tion in  human  life  (all  which  are  revealed  in  the  doctrines 
of  our  Saviour,  Christ),  these  are  the  grand  foundations  of  all 
judicial  oaths,  which  call  God  to  witness  the  truth  of  those 
facts  which  perhaps  may  be  only  known  to  Him  and  the  party 
attesting ;  all  moral  evidences,  therefore,  all  confidence  in 
human  veracity,  must  be  weakened  by  apostacy,  and  over- 
thrown by  total  infidelity.  Wherefore,  all  affronts  to  Chris- 
tianity, or  endeavors  to  depreciate  its  efficacy,  in  those  who 
have  once  professed  it,  are  highly  deserving  of  censure. — 
Pages  59  and  43,  "  WendeWs  Blacks  toners  Commentaries  y* 
Volume  IV. 


,34  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

A.  BERNSTORFF, 

German  Count. 

FOR  myself,  declare  that  I  am  here  as  an  indvidual 
evangelical  Christian,  and  that  I  should  never  have 
set  my  foot  in  this  Parliament  if  I  thought  that  it  sig- 
nified anything  like  a  consent  that  all  religions  are 
equal,  and  that  it  is  only  necessary  to  be  sincere  and  upright. 
I  believe  only  the  Bible  to  be  true,  and  Protestant  Chris- 
tianity the  only  true  religion.  I  wish  no  compromise  of  any 
kind.  .  .  .  We  Christians  are  servants  of  our  Master,  the 
living  Saviour.  We  have  no  right  to  compromise  the  truth 
He  intrusted  to  us. — Page  93,  Volume  /,  ^'  The  World^s  Par^ 
liameiit  of  Religions ^^^  edited  by  Rev.  John  Henry  Barrows.. 


JAMES  GILLESPIE  BLAINE* 

Twenty  Years  in  Congress,  Speaker  of  the  House,  and  Secretary  of  State 
under  Presidents  Garfield  and  Harrison.     (1830-1893.) 

BELIEVE  that  the  brotherhood  of  man  and  the  Father- 
hood of  God  are  becoming  the  corner-stone  of  religion, 
as  revealed  in  Christ,  and  as  traced  in  human  history. 
I  have  never  doubted  the  Divinity  of  Jesus  Christ  and 
the  Holy  Scriptures.  ^        ^ 


FRANCIS  PRESTON  BLAIR, 

Major-General,  Congressman  and  United  States  Senator. 

(1821-1875.) 

HE  Christian  religion,  in  its  magnificent  monuments 
and  emblems,  gives  the  senses  clear  conceptions  of 
the  life,  the  body,  the  moral  excellence,  and  even  the 
sufferings  of  our  Saviour.  It  gives  embodiment  to 
the  thought  and  feeling  which  arise  from  our  devotion. — 
From  his  oration  delivered  at  the  Unveiling  of  the  Benton 
Statue  in  St,  Louis. 

*Mr.  Blaine  died  in  the  triumphs  of  the  Christian  faith.  His  uniform 
tone  during  illness  was  that  of  a  devout  believer  in  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ 
as  a  personal  Sdis'xoxyr.— Doctor  Teunis  S.  Hamlin,  Washington,  D.  <  . 


A   CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES.  35 

THE  RIGHT  HONORABLE  A.  J.  BALFOUR. 

Parliamentary  Leader  in  the  House  of  Commons. 

'N  the  world,  looked  at  in  the  light  of  a  simple  theism, 
the  evidences  of  God's  material  power  lie  about  us  on 
every  side,  daily  added  to  by  science,  universal,  over- 
whelming. The  evidences  of  His  moral  interest  have 
to  be  anxiously  extracted  grain  by  grain,  through  the  specu- 
lative analysis  of  our  moral  nature;  and  if  it  be  desirable 
that  they  should  be  enabled  to  obtain  an  imaginative  grasp 
of  this  great  truth;  if  they  need  to  have  them  brought  home 
to  them  that,  in  the  sight  of  God,  the  stability  of  the 
heavens  is  of  less  importance  than  the  moral  growth  of  a 
human  spirit,  I  know  not  how  this  can  be  done  more  com- 
pletely than  by  the  Christian  doctrine  of  the  Incarnation.  .  . . 
What  is  needed  is  such  a  living  faith  in  God's  relation  to 
man  as  shall  leave  no  place  for  that  helpless  resentment 
against  the  appointed  order  so  apt  to  rise  within  us  at  the 
sight  of  undeserved  pam.  And  this  faith  is  possessed  by 
those  who  vividly  realize  the  Christian  form  of  theism. — See 
''^The  Right  Foundations  of  Belief  ^^^  by  the  Right  Honorable 
Arthur  James  Balfour. 

JAMES  ROBINSON  BOISE, 

Professor  of  Greek  in  the  University  of  Michigan,  1852-1868,  and  later  in 
the  University  of  Chicago ;  Author  of  Greek  Text-Books. 

WAS  engaged  for  more  than  thirty  years  in  teaching 
the  Latin  and  Greek  classics.  I  also  edited  portions 
of  Homer,  Heroditus,  Thucydides,  Xenophon,  Plato, 
and  Demosthenes.  I  have  now  for  fifteen  years  been 
engaged  in  teaching  the  Greek  New  Testament.  And  what 
is  the  result?  I  have  almost  lost  my  fondness  for  the  classic 
authors.  Compared  with  the  doctrines  of  the  New  Testa- 
ment, they  seem  to  me  as  chaff  compared  to  the  wheat. 
Beautiful  chaff  it  may  be,  in  the  light  of  the  sun,  but  they 
have  nothing  to  nourish  and  satisfy  the  soul ;  whereas,  the 
more  one  meditates  on  the  inspired  truth  of  the  Bible,  the 
more  the  spiritual  nature,  the  God-like  in  man,  g^ows, 
expands,  is  lifted  up  and  strengthened. 


36  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

SIR  S.  A.  BLACKWOOD, 

English  Statesman. 

E  have  gone  to  the  heathen  in  certain  lands  with 
the  Bible  in  one  hand  and  the  rum-bottle  in  an- 
other. What  can  be  thought  of  the  character  of 
a  Christianity  that  thus  presented  itself  to  them? 
.  .  .  How  can  we  wondfer  that  in  India  they  have  laughed 
at  our  Christianity,  and  cast  contempt  upon  the  name  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ?  It  is  our  business  to  lift  up  our  voices,, 
and  with  bated  breath,  and  no  indistinct  utterance,  to  declare 
that  on  the  ground  of  every  obligation  that  we  owe  to  Him 
who  has  redeemed  us  by  His  precious  blood,  so  far  as  lies  in 
our  power,  so  far  as  our  protests,  so  far  as  our  prayers  can 
stay  these  deadly  evils,  they  shall,  by  God's  help,  be  impos- 
sible for  the  future. — Page  470,  Volume  /,  ^''Report  of  the 
Missionary  Conference^  London^  il 


JOHANN  KASPER  BLUNTSCHLl, 

German  Jurist.    (1808-1881.) 

>HE  limits  of  the  freedom  of  teaching  are  not  pre- 
scribed by  the  letter  of  Scripture,  but  a  fundamental 
requirement  of  Protestantism  is  free  inquiry  in  and 
about  the  Scriptures.  The  attempt  to  limit  the  free- 
dom  of  theological  inquiry  and  teaching  in  the  universities 
is  a  violation  of  the  vital  principles  of  Protestantism.  Only 
such  conceptions  of  the  Person  of  Jesus  can  satisfy  the  relig- 
ious necessities  of  this  age  as  fully  recognize  the  idea  of  His 
humanity  and  place  in  history.  The  higher  reason  only  has 
unconditional  authority,  and  the  Bible  must  justify  itself  be- 
fore its  tribunal;  we  find  the  history  of  Divine  revelation 
and  its  fulfillment  in  the  Bible  alone,  and  reason  bids  us  to 
regard  the  Bible  as  the  only  authority  and  canon  in  matters 
of  religious  belief. — Page  825,  Volume  XI X^  of-^  The  Ency  elo- 
pes dia  Brittanzcay 


MY  MOTHER'S  BIBLE. 


T 


HIS  Book  is  all  that's  left  me  now— 

Tears  will  unbidden  start — 
With  faltering  lip  and  throbbing  brow 

I  press  it  to  my  heart. 
For  many  generations  past 

Here  is  our  family  tree; 
My  mother's  hands  this  Bible  clasped, 

She,  dying,  gave  it  me. 
My  father  read  this  Holy  Book 

To  brothers,  sisters  dear; 
How  calm  was  my  poor  mother's  look. 

Who  loved  God's  Word  to  hear! 
Her  angel  face — I  see  it  yet! 

What  thronging  memories  come! 
Again  that  little  group  is  met 

Within  the  halls  of  home." 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  37 

JAKOB  BOHME, 

German  Mystic  Philosopher.     (1575-1624.) 

^""OW  the  Scripture  witnesses  throughout,  and  new- 
born man  finds  it  so,  that  it  is  quite  otherwise,  and 
contrary  to  what  it  was  before.  It  finds  itself  very 
humble,  meek,  courteous,  and  pleasant;  it  readily 
bears  all  manner  of  crosses  and  persecutions ;  it  turns  the  out- 
ward body  from  out  of  the  way  of  the  wicked ;  it  regards  no 
reproach,  disgrace,  or  scorn  put  upon  it  by  the  devil  or  man ;  it 
places  its  confidence,  refuge,  and  love  in  the  Son  of  God,  it  is 
fed  by  the  Word  of  God,  and  can  not  be  touched  by  the  devil; 
for  although  it  is  in  its  own  substance,  and  stands  in  the  first 
principle  in  the  indissoluble  bond,  it  is  enlightened  with  the 
light  of  God  in  the  Son,  and  the  Holy  Ghost. — From  his  es- 
jay :  "  The  Third  Principle ;  or  Creation  of  the  Material 
World ^  with  the  Stars  and  Elements.''^ 


HERMANN  BOERHAAVE, 

Dutch  Physician  and  Philosopher.    (1668-1738.) 

AM  persuaded  that  the  Scriptures,  as  recorded  in 
their  original,  did  alone  instruct  us  in  the  way  of 
salvation  and  afford  tranquillity  to  the  mind,  with  obe- 
dience to  Christ's  precepts  and  example ;  in  particular, 
that  precept  confirming  the  law  of  Moses  which  respects  the 
love  of  God  and  our  neighbor. 

This  maxim,  however,  I  wish  to  abide  by,  living  or  dying: 
That  only  is  the  best,  and  alone  to  be  desired,  which  is  per- 
fectly agreeable  both  to  the  Divine  goodness  and  majesty. 
Many  who  make  the  greatest  profession  of  Christ's  doctrine 
pay  little  deference  to  His  example  recommended  in  one  of 
his  precepts:  "Learn  of  Me,  for  I  am  meek  and  lowly  in 
heart." — Page  51,  Section  II I^  "  Account  of  the  Life  of  Doctor 
Hermann  Boerhaave^^  by  Burton. 


3^  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

ROBERT  BUCHANAN, 

Scotch  Poet. 

Y  God  !  my  God  !  with  passionate  appeal, 
-  ^         Pardon  I  crave  for  these  mad  moods  of  mine  ! 
jvi  Can  I  remember,  with  no  heart  to  feel, 

The  gift  of  Thy  dear  Son,  the  Man  Divine  ? 


NAPOLEON  BONAPARTE, 

Emperor  of  the  French.     (1769-1821.) 

HE  Bible  is  more  than  a  Book;  it  is  a  living  being, 
with  an  action,  a  power  which  invades  everything 
that  opposes  its  extension.    Behold  it  upon  this  table, 
this  Book  surpassing  all  others ;  I  never  omit  to  read 
it,  and  every  day  with  new  pleasure. 

Everything  in  Christ  astonishes  me.  His  spirit  overawes 
me,  and  His  will  confounds  me.  Between  Him  and  who- 
ever else  in  the  world  there  is  no  possible  term  of  compari- 
son ;  He  is  truly  a  Being  by  Himself.  His  ideas  and  His 
sentiments,  the  truth  which  He  announces,  His  manner  of 
convincing,  are  not  explained  either  by  human  organization 
or  by  the  nature  of  things. 

Truth  should  embrace  the  universe.  Such  is  Christianity, 
the  only  religion  which  destroys  sectional  prejudices,  the 
only  one  which  proclaims  the  unity  and  the  absolute  brother- 
hood of  the  whole  human  family,  the  only  one  which  is 
purely  spiritual;,  in  fine,  the  only  one  which  assigns  to  all, 
without  distinction,  for  a  true  country,  the  bosom  of  the 
Creator,  God.  Christ  proved  that  He  was  the  Son  of  the 
Eternal  by  His  disregard  of  time.  All  His  doctrines  signify 
one  only  and  the  same  thing — eternity.  What  a  proof  of  the 
divinity  of  Christ!  With  an  empire  so  absolute,  He  has  but 
one  single  end — the  spiritual  melioration  of  individuals,  the 
purity  of  the  conscience. — Chapter  XXXIII ^  Volume  11^  of 
**  The  History  of  Napoleon  Boitaparte^^^  by  John  S.  C.  Abbott. 
[Canon  Liddon^  in  his  B  amp  ton  Lectures  ^  page  148,  names 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  39 

these  authorities:  Luthardt^  Apologetische  Vortrage^  pages 
234,  293;  M.  Angus te  Nicholas^  Etudes  Philosophique  sur  le 
Christianisme^  Bruxelles^  1849,  ^^^^  ^^-j  pages  352,  256; 
Chevalier  de  BeatUerne^  Sentiment  de  Napoleon  sur  le  Chris- 
iianisme^  edit,  par  M.  Bathild  Bouniol^  Paris^  1864,  pages  87, 
118.) 

JUNIUS  BRUTUS  BOOTH, 

Tragedian.     (1796-1852.) 


cx^  ^TIOU  are  right ;  to  read  that  prayer  (the  Lord's  Prayer) 
-XA   as  it  should  be  read,  cost  me   the   severest  study 
2  ^58^  and  labor  for  thirty  years,  and  I  am  far  from  sat- 
isfied with  my  rendering  of  that  wonderful  produc- 
tion.    Hardly  one  person  in  a  thousand  comprehends  how 
much  beauty,  tenderness,  and  grandeur  can  be  condensed  in 
a  space  so  simple.     The  prayer  itself  sufficiently  il- 
lustrates THE   truth  of  the   BlBLE,  AND  STAMPS  UPON 
IT  THE  SEAL  OF  DiviNiTY. — From  "  The  Life  of  Elihu  Bur- 
ritt^^  by  Charles  Northend. 


CHARLES  BONNET, 

Swiss  Naturalist  and  Philosopher.    (1720-1793.) 

THEREFORE  open  this  Book— the  Old  Testament— 
which  to  this  day  is  held  forth  as  authentic  and  di- 
vine by  the  descendants,  in  a  direct  line,  of  those 
men  who  crucified  the  Messenger  of  Heaven  and  per- 
secuted His  ministers  and  first  disciples.  I  peruse  the  Book, 
and  meet  with  a  passage  in  it — Isa.  liii. — which  excites  in 
me  the  greatest  astonishment.  I  think  I  am  reading  an  an- 
ticipated and  circumstantial  history  of  Christ ;  I  discover  all 
the  features  of  His  character,  and  the  principal  particulars  of 
His  life ;  in  a  word,  I  think  I  am  reading  the  very  evidence 
of  the  witnesses  themselves. 

By  this  bringing  together  and  comparing  the  external  (the 


40      •  A  CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

proofs  which  the  miracles  and  prophecies,  the  character  of 
our  Saviour,  and  that  of  His  disciples,  exhibit,  are  called  the 
external  proofs)  and  internal  proofs  of  Christianity,  this  im- 
portant consequence  results  to  my  mind:  that  there  exists  no 
ancient  history  as  well  attested  as  that  of  Christ ;  that  there 
are  no  historical  facts  established  on  so  great  a  number  of 
proofs  ;  no  proofs  so  solid,  so  striking,  and  so  various,  as 
those  on  which  the  religion  of  the  divine  Messenger  is 
founded. — ''  Philosophical  and  Critical  htquiries  Concerning 
Christianity^''  by  Charles  Bonnet^  of  Geneva^  Member  of  the 
Royal  Academy  of  Paris. 


VINCENZO  BOTTA; 

Author,  and  Professor  of  Italian  Literature  in  the  University 
of  the  City  of  New  York. 

^HE  power  of  the  Roman  Emperors  extended  over  the 
body  and  soul  of  the  subject,  but  Christianity  ap- 
peared to  set  free  the  Divine  element  of  the  human 
mind,  and  to  assert  its  natural  sovereignty.  Religion 
and  science,  two  branches  from  the  same  root,  were  thus 
made  free  by  the  mission  of  the  Redeemer,  and  the  state  has 
no  more  power  over  the  one  than  the  other.  There  are 
moral  elements  in  the  nature  of  man  which  were  particularly 
developed  by  the  Gospel,  and  without  which  no  society  can 
flourish. — Page  78,  "^  Discourse  on  the  Life^  Character^  and 
Policy  of  Count  Cavour^^  by  Vincenzo  Botta, 


PAUL  BOURGET, 

French  Novelist. 


^OR  many  years  I,  like  most  young  men  in  modern 
)X  i:^  cities,  was  content  to  drift  along  in  agnosticism,  but  I 
was  brought   to   my  senses  at  last  by  the  growing 
realization  that  there  is  in  this  life  such  a  thing  as 
responsibility  for  the  influence  upon  others.     I  saw  that  the 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  .       4I 

life  of  the  man  who  simply  said  "I  don't  know,  and  not 
knowing,  I  do  the  thing  that  pleases  me,"  was  not  only  empty 
in  itself,  and  full  of  disappointment  and  suffering,  but  was  a. 
positive  influence  for  evil  upon  the  lives  of  others.  Since 
then  my  belief  has  grown  firmer  in  the  Christian  system  for 
practical  happiness  in  this  world. —  The  Herald^  New  York^ 
August  13,  1893. 


EDWARD  BELLAMY, 

Author  of  "  Looking  Backward." 


HERE  shall  we  find  the  explanation  of  the  par- 
[Aj  adox  of  the  adoration  of  Christ,  as  not  merely 
leader,  but  God,  by  communities  which  tolerated 
a  social  organization  that  made  earth  a  hell  and 
openly  outraged  every  word  of  His  Gospel?  If  you  can 
imagine  a  conception  of  Christianity  which  shall  leave  out 
the  Golden  Rule,  you  will  have  an  explanation  of  this  par- 
adox.  All  this  teaching  which  was  the  whole  of  His  Gos- 
pel, was  grouped  about  and  crystalized  in  the  Golden  RulCy 
whereon  our  modern  world  is  founded  as  an  everlasting 
foundation.  To  believe  in  Christ  and  not  believe  in  the 
Golden  Rule  as  the  only  plan  for  social  organization,  seems 
to  me  a  moral  and  rational  impossibility. —  The  Ladies*  Home 
Journal^  January^  1895. 


FRANCIS  BOWEN, 

Educator  and    Author. 

ACCEPT  with  unhesitating  conviction  and  belief  the 
doctrine  of  the  being  of  one  personal  God,  the  Creator 
and  Governor  of  the  world,  and  of  one  Lord  Jesus 
Christ,  in  whom  dwelleth  all  the  fullness  of  the  God- 
head bodily;  and  I  have  found  nothing  whatever  in  the 
literature  of  modern  infidelity  which,  to  my  mind,  casts 
even  the  slightest  doubt  upon  that  belief. — See  Preface  to 
^^ Modern  Philosophy ^^^  by  Francis  Bowen^  Alford  Professor 
of  Natural  Religion^  Moral  Philosophy^  and  Civil  Polity  in 
Harvard  College. 


42  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

SIR  JOHN  BOWRING, 

English  Poet,  Statesman  and  Linguist.     (1792-1872.) 


THE  GOSPEL  PROCLAIMED, 

OW  sweetlyflowed  the  Gospel  sound, 
From  lips  of  gentleness  and  grace,    . 

When  listening  thousands  gathered  round. 
And  joy  and  gladness  filled  the  place. 

From  Heaven  He  came,  of  Heaven  He  spoke, 
To  Heaven  He  led  His  followers'  way ; 

Dark  clouds  of  gloomy  night  He  broke, 
Unveiling  an  immortal  day. 

Decay,  then,  tenements  of  dust ; 

Pillars  of  earthly  pride,  decay ; 
A  nobler  mansion  waits  the  just. 

And  Jesus  has  prepared  the  way. 


CHARLES  CARROLL  BONNEY, 

Lawyer;   President  of  World's  Congress  Auxilliary 

F  all  the  leaders  the  world  has  ever  known  could  be 
convened  in  one  grand  assembly,  and  the  utmost 
merits  of  each  proclaimed  and  admitted;  if  Jesus 
Christ  should  then  stand  forth  in  the  midst,  not  one 
would  contest  His  supremacy,  but  all,  with  one  accord, 
would  bow  the  head  in  His  Divine  presence,  and  feel  honored 
by  acknowledging  Him  ^'King  of  kings,  and  Lord  of  lords." 
If  all  the  books  in  the  world  could  be  assembled  in  one 
great  convention  to  choose  a  king,  and  the  crown  were  to  be 
awarded  to  that  one  which  had  been  printed  in  the  largest 
number  of  languages,  and  has  exercised  the  most  potent  and 
far-reaching  influence  for  the  elevation  and  enlightenment  of 
mankind,  the  Holy  Bible — the  Book  Divine — would  have  no 
xeal  competitor,  but  would  be  chosen  by  acclamation. 


U^iM^^^^AyO^  d  ,  ^c-y^y^JZy^ 


A  CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  45 

HJALMAR  HJORTH  BOYESEN, 

Professor  of  German  at  Columbia  College,  and  Author^ 

HERE  is  a  vast  field  here  for  the  Christian  mis-- 
sionary;  for  our  social  order  rests  upon  Christianity' 
as  a  basis,  and  can  only  be  maintained  by  faith  irt 
revealed  religion.  If  Christianity  ceases  to  be  a  power 
in  the  land,  if  the  fear  and  the  love  of  God  cease  to  be  re- 
straining influences  in  the  minds  of  men,  our  present  social 
order  is  surely  doomed.  .  .  .  It  is  therefore  a  sign  of  the 
utmost  significance  when  the  Christian  Churches  throughout 
our  land  become  aroused  to  the  necessity  of  grappling  with 
these  great  and  vital  problems.  They  are  not  in  themselves 
insoluble;  but  they  require  for  their  solution  all  the  patriot- 
ism, the  earnestness  and  self-devotion  which  are  found  in 
the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ.  It  is  in  this  sign,  and  in  this 
alone,  that  we  shall  conquer. — From  his  address  on  Immigra- 
tion^ delivered  at  the  Evangelical  Alliance^  Washington^  D.  C.y 
December^  1887/  extracted  from  pages  68  and  74  of  ''''National 
Perils  and  Opportunities.''^ 


2s 


ROBERT  BOYLE, 

Irish  Chemist  and  Philosopher.     (1626-1691.) 

UR  Saviour  would  love  at  no  less  rate  than  death ;  and 

^  from  the  supereminent  height  of  glory,  stooped  and 

^5^  debased  Himself  to  the  sufferance  of  the  extremest  of 

indignities,  and  sunk  himself  to  the  bottom  of  abject- 

ness,  to  exalt  our  condition  to  the  contrary  extreme. — Page 

104,  '''' Allibone^ s  Quotations y 

The  Books  of  Scripture  illustrate  and  expound  each  other,' 
as  in  the  mariner's  compass,  the  needle's  extremity,  though 
it  seems  to  point  purposely  to  the  north,  doth  yet  at  the 
same  time  discover  both  east  and  west,  as  distant  as  they 
are  from  it  and  each  other,  so  do  some  texts  of  Scripture 


44  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

guide  us  to  the  intelligence  of  others,  for  which  they  are 
widely  distant  in  the  Bible. 

We  should  carefully  distinguish  betwixt  what  the  Scripture 
itself  says  and  what  is  only  said  in  the  Scripture.  For  we 
must  not  look  upon  the  Bible  as  an  oration  of  God  to  men, 
or  as  a  body  of  laws ;  .  .  .  but  as  a  collection  of  com- 
posures of  very  different  sorts,  and  written  at  very  distant 
times;  and  of  such  composures  that,  though  holy  men  of 
God — as  Peter  calls  them — were  actuated  by  the  Holy  Spirit, 
who  both  excited  and  assisted  them  in  penning  the  Scrip- 
ture, yet  there  are  many  others  besides  the  Author  and  the 
penman,  introduced  speaking  there. — ^^Sorne  Considerations 
Touching  the  Style  of  the  Holy  Scriptures ^^^  by  Robert  Boyle. 


LUTHER   BRADISH, 

Statesman.     (1783-1863.) 

HERBVER  the  Bible  has  gone,  it  has  carried  with 
it  juster  notions  of  individual  rights  and  sounder 
views  of  the  true  end  and  object  of  government. 
It  has  exerted  a  great  and  benign  influence  upon 
the  enactment  of  laws  and  their  execution.     .     .     Equally 
great  and  salutary  has  been  the  influence  of  the  Bible  upon 
the  mental  labors  and  the  intellectual  condition  of  man  in  all 
ages  and  in  all  countries.     It  has  chastened  his  imagination 
and   invigorated  his  judgment.     It  has  purified  literature, 
elevated  philosophy,    directed  science   to  its  true  ends  and 
'   IS,  and  thus  effectually  contributed  to  the  adv^ancement  of 
lization  and  amelioration  of  the  world.    'All   this  has  the 
ole  accomplished  for  man  in  regard  to  this  life.     But  this 
precious  revelation  of  God  to  man  is  not  limited  to  his  brief 
existence  here.     It  has  a  far  higher  aim,  and  was  destined  to 
achieve  for  him  a  far  greater  and  more  enduring  good  in  ref- 
erence to  that  which  is  to  come. — "  Testimony  to  the  Value  of 
the  Sacred  Sc7'iptures^^  bv  'h^^  American  Bible  Society. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  45 

WILLIAM    M.  BRADSHEAR, 

President  of  Iowa  State  College. 

.HE  Holy  Bible  is  the  revelation  of  God  in  history,  in 
redemption,  and  the  compendium  of  all   ethics.     It 
is  the  fountain  of  law  and  literature.     It  is  the  chart 
and  compass  of  man  in  a  shoreless  world  that  keeps 
him  near  the  pole-star  of  eternal  truth. 

Jesus  Christ  is  more  than  any  other  in  history,  because  He 
presents  the  universal  elements  of  humanity  as  distinguished 
from  individual  peculiarities.  He  presents  a  complete 
human  nature  in  moral  and  spiritual  attributes.  The  four 
lives  of  Christ,  as  recorded  by  the  four  Evangelists,  are  ex- 
plainable only  as  being  historically  true.  The  beneficent 
power  of  His  life  and  death  over  the  subsequent  history  of 
mankind  is  an  unimpeachable  proof  of  His  divine  humanity. 


'^O-n^Qt 


THE  RIGHT  HONORABLE  LORD  BRASSEY, 

English  Statesman. 

WAS  glad  to  notice  in  the  prayer  just  offered,  that  we 
give  thanks  to  our  Heavenly  Father  in  the  name  of 
Jesus  Christ,  our  Lord,  for  the  work  which  is  done, 
not  only  by  this  society,  but  by  kindred  societies.  I 
have  been  on  board  the  storm-tossed  vessel  in  which  a  good 
Bishop  of  the  Anglican  Church  was  engaged  in  carrying  the 
Gospel  to  the  distant  ice-bound  shores  of  Labrador;  I  have 
been  in  the  stormy  waters  of  the  Straits  of  Magellan,  and 
have  seen  at  what  sacrifice,  and  by  what  efforts,  the  Gospel 
is  carried  to  the  savage  people  of  Terra  del  Fuego ;  I  have 
seen  the  devoted  missionaries  whp  are  sent  by  the  United 
States  at  their  work  in  Beyrout  and  Lahore.  .  .  .  I  do 
not  question  the  melancholy  fact  that  there  are  masses  of 
people  in  our  midst  who  do  not  hear  the  good  news  of  salva- 


46  A    CI.OUD    OF    WITNESSES. 

tion;  but  I  fear,  in  too  many  instances,  those  of  our  people 
who  do  not  hear  the  Gospel  do  not  hear  it  because  they  do 
not  avail  themselves  of  the  opportunities  which  are  in  exist- 
ence.— From  a  speech  at  Exeter  Hall^  May^  1888,  before  the 
London  Missionary  Society. 


DAVID  JOSIAH  BREWER, 

Associate  Justice  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court. 

BELIEVE  in  Jesus  Christ  as  the  great  Helper,  Com- 
forter and  Saviour  of  humanity,  and  the  Holy  Bible 
as  bearing  to  us  the  story  of  his  mission,  the  rules  of 
duty,  the  revelation  of  Eternal  Life,  and  also  the 
conditions  under  which  the  attainment  of  that  life  are  possi- 
ble. No  Book  contains  more  truths,  or  is  more  worthy  of 
confidence  than  the  Bible ;  none  brings  more  joy  to  the  sor- 
rowing, more  strength  to  the  weak,  or  more  stimulus  to  the 
nobly  ambitious ;  none  makes  life  sweeter,  or  death  easier  or 
less  sad. 


,&~^^<j^y^y9uAA^<^s^ 


SIR  DAVID  BREWSTER, 

Scottish  Physicist.     (1781-1868.) 

SHALL  see  Jesus,  and  that  will  be  grand !     .     .     . 

What  should  I  have  done  now^  had  I  tried  to  find  a 

Saviour  at  this  time  ? 

Oh,  is  it  not  sad  that  all  are  not  contented  with 
the  beautiful  simple  plan  of  salvation — Jesus  Christ  only — 
who  has  done  so  much  for  us.  ^'  Notwithstanding  his  tal- 
ents !  "  That  disgusts  me:  merit  for  a  man  to  bow  his  intel- 
lect to  the  Cross !  Why,  what  can  the  highest  intellect  on 
earth  do  but  bow  to  God's  Word  and  God's  mind  thankfully? 
When  I  find  a  doctrine  plainly  stated  in  the  Bible,  that  is 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  47 

enough,  God  knows.  I  can  depend  on  God's  Word.  We 
.should  not  expect  in  this  world  to  be  free  from  things  ob- 
scure to  us,  and  beyond  our  ability  to  explain.  .  .  .  To 
believe  in  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  is  to  live ;  I  trust  Him  and 
enjoy  His  peace. — James  Macaulay  in  VolMtne  II  of  ''''Short 
Biographies  for  the  Peopled 


F.  C.  BRIDGEMAN, 

Member  of  Parliament;    British  General. 

AY    I    venture    to   give  you  an    example  of  God's 
.  ^VdL  answer   to    an    impious    prophecy?     In  the  middle 
^'^^9?  of  the  last  century,  Voltaire,  perhaps  the  greatest 
of    atheistic     writers,    prophesied    that    within     a 
liundred  years  the  Bible  would  be  an  unknown  Book,  or,  if 
it  existed  at  all,  it  would  exist  in  the  museum  of  some  col- 
lector, who  would  point  to  it  as  a  monument  of  the  folly  and 
superstition  of  our  ancestors.     Well,  more  than  a  hundred 
years  have  rolled  away,  and  the  very  room  in  which  that 
prophecy  was  written  is  now  one  of  the  depots  of  the  Brit- 
ish and  Foreign  Bible  Society  in  France,  from  which  the 
Scriptures  are  distributed  to  every  town  and  hamlet  in  the 
country. — From  a  Speech  at  the  eighty  fourth  anniversary  of 
the  British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society. 


HENRY  GEORGES  S.  O.  DE  BLOWITZ, 

Journalist;  Paris  Correspondent  London  TimeG. 

PREFER  the  Word  of  God,  which  teaches  us  not  to 
consider  ourselves  better  than  other  men,  because  we 
are  dust  ourselves.  Humanity  oscillates  between 
atheism,  which  rejects  reason,  and  reason,  which  bows 
to  faith.  Unless  you  can  show  me  a  religion  which  incul- 
cates precepts  more  sublime  than  those  of  the  Divine  Phi- 
losopher of  Nazareth,  leave  me  to  my  faith  without  seeking 
to  trouble  it. — Review  of  Reviews^  May.,  1896. 


48  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

GEORGE  NIXON  BRIGGS, 

Governor  of  Massachusetts,   1843-1851 ;  Congressman  Six  Successive 
C^   o  _  Terms;  and  Philanthropist.     (1796-1861.) 


A  V/  C)U  go  to  an  embassy  compared  with  which  all  the 
"XA   embassies  of  men  dwindle  into  insignificance.     You 
2*^53^  go   forth   as   ambassadors   of    Christ.     You  go   to 
crumble  idols — to  convey  light  to  benighted  minds 
— to  kindle  love  to  God  in  the  souls  of  ungodly  men.     Who 
can  overestimate  the  qualifications  necessary  for  such  work  ? 
The  fervent,  effectual  prayer  shall  ascend  to  the  mercy  seat  for 
you.     You  shall  never  see  the  day  when  your  brethren  who 
sent  you  out  shall  turn  their  backs  on  you ;  but  look  higher, 
— the  Saviour  has  told  you,  "  Lo,  I  am  with  you  alway,  even 
unto  the  end  of  the  world."     The  Almighty  Friend  will  al- 
ways be  at  your  side  to  sustain  you. — Addressed  to  mission- 
aries^ Buffalo^  May^  1850,  while  President  of  the  American 
Baptist  Missionary  Union. 


JOHN   BRIGHT, 

English  Orator  and    Statesman.     (1811-1889.) 

E  know  that  the  Divine  Founder  of   our  faith  has 
left  much  more  of  the  doings  of  a  loving  heart 
than  of  '  dogma.     What    has  always  struck  me 
most  in  reading  the  Gospels  is  how  much  com- 
passion there  was  with  all  that  were  sick  and  suffering. 

We  are  a  Christian  nation;  we  draw  our  rule  of  doctrine 
and  practice  from  the  living  oracles  of  God,  and  from  the 
direct  revelation  of  the  Omnipotent.  We  have  conceived  the 
magnificent  project  of  illuminating  the  whole  earth,  even  to 
the  remotest  and  darkest  recesses,  by  the  dissemination  of  the 
Gospel.  Within  the  limits  of  this  island  alone  every  Lord's 
Day  over  20,000  temples  are  thrown  open,  in  which  devout 
men  and  women  worship  Him,  who  is  the  Saviour  of  the 
world. — See  pages  298,  462,  ''Life  and  Times  of  the  Right 
Honorable  John  Bright^ ' '  by  William  Robertson. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  49 

SIR  WYKE   BAYLISS, 

President  of  the  Royal  Society  of  British  Artists. 

/jy71<^RT  knew  Christ  only  as  the  Son  of  Man,  but  the 
^^[^  image  desired  must  be  the  Son  of  God.  What 
^  (Q^*  could  the  painter  do?  How  should  the  Master  be 
differentiated  from  the  malefactors?  How  should 
the  Divinity  of  the  Crucified  be  manifested?  And  so  through 
the  attempt  to  paint  a  creed  instead  of  a  fact  Art  became  un- 
true to  the  Church  and  the  studio.  The  divinity  of  Christ 
when  He  lived  among  men  was  not  visible.  Even  His  moth- 
er did  not  know  that  He  was  God.—  Page  120,  "^  Painter'' s 
Study  of  the  Likeness  of  Christy ' '  by  Sir  Wyke  Bayliss, 


WILLIAM  BROSS, 

Journalist;  Editor  of  the  Chicago  Tribune.     (1813-1890.) 

E  answered  these  three  questions  regarding  the  ele- 
ments of  true  success  in  life: 

(i)  What  maxims  have  had  a  strong  influence  on 
your  life,  and  helped  to  your  success?  "The  Proverbs 
of  Solomon  and  other  Scriptures.  They  were  quoted  a  thou- 
sand times  by  my  honored  father,  and  caused  an  effort  to  do 
my  duty  each  day,  under  a  constant  sense  of  obligation  to 
my  Saviour  and  fellow  man." 

(2)  What  do  you  consider  essential  elements  of  success 
for  a  young  man  entering  upon  such  a  profession  as  yours? 
*' Sterling,  unflinching  integrity  in  all  matters,  public  and 
private.  Let  everyone  do  his  whole  duty,  both  to  God  and 
man.  Let  him  follow  earnestly  the  teachings  of  the  Scriptures 
and  eschew  infidelity  in  all  its  forms." 

(3)  What,  in  your  observation,  have  been  the  chief  causes 
of  the  numerous  failures  in  the  life  of  business  and  profes- 
sional men?  ''  Want  of  integrity,  careless  of  the  truth, 
reckless  in  thought  and  expression,  lack  of  trust  in  God,  and 
a  disregard  of  the  teachings  of  His  Holy  Word,  bad  company, 
and  bad  morals  in  any  of  their  many  phases. — ^^ Successful 
Business  Men  of  To-day ^^^  by  Wilbur  F.  Crafts^  p^g^  232. 


50  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

JOHN  BROOKS, 

Physician;  Governor  of  Massachusetts,  1816-1823.     (1752-1825.) 

LOOK  back  upon  my  humble  life  with  humility.  I 
am  sensible  of  many  imperfections  that  cling  to  me. 
I  know  that  the  present  is  neither  the  season  nor  the 
place  to  begin  the  preparation  for  death.  Our  whole 
life  is  given  us  for  this  great  object,  and  the  work  of  prepa- 
ration should  be  early  commenced,  and  be  never  relaxed  till 
the  end  of  our  days.  To  God  I  can  appeal  that  it  has  been 
my  humble  endeavor  to  serve  Him  with  sincerity ;  and 
wherein  I  have  failed,  I  trust  in  His  grace  to  forgive.  I  now 
rest  my  soul  on  the  mercy  of  the  adorable  Creator,  through 
the  only  mediation  of  His  Son,  our  Lord. — DixweWs  Memoirs. 


SIR  THOMAS  BROWNE, 

English  Physician  and   Author.     (1605-1682,) 

DARE,  without  usurpation,  assume  the  honorable  title 

of  a  Christian I  am  of  the  same  belief 

our  Saviour  taught,  the  apostles  disseminated,  the 
fathers  authorized,  and  the  martyrs  confirmed. 
I  desire  to  exercise  my  faith  in  the  difficultest  point;  for 
to  credit  ordinary  and  visible  objects  is  not  faith,  but  per- 
suasion. Some  believe  the  better  by  seeing  Christ's  sepul- 
chre ;  and  when  they  have  seen  the  Red  Sea,  doubt  not  the 
miracle.  Now,  contrarily,  I  bless  myself  and  am  thankful 
that  I  lived  not  in  the  days  of  miracles,  that  I  never  saw 
Christ  nor  His  disciples.  I  would  not  have  been  one  of 
those  Israelites  that  passed  the  Red  Sea,  nor  one  of  Christ's 
patients  on  whom  He  wrought  His  wonders ;  then  had  my 
faith  been  thrust  upon  me ;  nor  would  I  enjoy  that  greater 
blessing  pronounced  to  all  that  believe  and  saw  not.  'Tis 
an  easy  and  necessary  belief  to  credit  what  our  eyes  and 
sense  have  examined.  I  believe  He  was  dead  and  buried, 
and  rose  again ;  and  desire  to  see  Him  in  His  glory,  rather 
than  to  contemplate  him  in  His  cenotaph  or  sepulchre. — 
^■^Religio-Medici^^^  pages  15  and  21^  by  Sir   Thomas  Browne, 


A  CLOUD  OF  WITNESSES.  51- 

HENRY  BROUGHAM, 

English  Statesman  and  Author.     (1779-1868.) 

^HAT  there  should  be  no  exclusion  of  religious  in- 
struction, but  that,  on  the  contrary,  there  should  be 
a  direct  recognition  of  it,  is  my  very  decided  opinion. 
I  certainly  am  one  of  those  who  think  that  the  bill 
should  contain,  in  positive  and  express  terms,  a  provision 
that  in  all  schools  founded,  extended,  or  improved  under 
this  bill,  the  Scriptures  shall  be  read.  When  I  say  that  the 
Scriptures  are  one  of  the  Books  which  should  be  read  in  the 
schools,  I,  of  course,  mean  that  it  should  not  be  the  only 
Book  read  there :  far  from  it ;  God  forbid :  for  the  sake  of 
religion  and  the  Bible  itself,  God  forbid :  but  that,  as  a  part 
of  the  reading  in  such  schools,  the  Holy  Scriptures  should 
be  used. — From  a  speeeh  in  the  House  of  Lords  in  1837. 


CHARLES  BROCKDEN  BROWN, 

Author  and  Journalist.     (1771-1810.) 

AVOW  myself  to  be,  without  equivocation  or  reserve, 
the  ardent  friend  and  the  willing  champion  of  the  re- 
ligion  of    Christ.      Christian   piety    I   revere   as   the 
broadest    excellence   of    human    beings. — Page    164, 
' '  The  Life  of  Charles  Brockden  Brown^ ' '  by   William  H, 
Prescott^  in    "  The   Library  of  Arnerican   Biogtaphy^'*'*    by 
fared  Sparks 


lOHN  R.  BROOKE, 

i^^VCf  Major- General. 


Y  religious  convictions  are  plainly   stated   in   these 

words :     I  believe  in  God  the  Father,  God  the  Son 

Q^  and  God  the  Holy  Ghost.        This  belief,  grand  and 

simple,   as  was  taught  by  our  Saviour  in  the  four 

Gospels,    holds  the  minds  of  a   majority   of   the   Christian 


52  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

TYCHO  BRAHE, 

Danish  Astronomer.     (1546-1601.) 

'O  man  can  be  made  happy  and  enjoy  immortal  life 
but  through    the   merits   of   Jesus    Christ  the  Re- 
deemer, the  Son  of  God,  and   by  the  study  of  His 
doctrines  and  the  imitation  of  His  example. — As- 
tronomcB  Instaurate  Mechanica^  p.  A. 


GEORGES  LOUIS  LECLERC  BUFFON, 

French  Naturalist;  Member  of  the  French  Academy. 
(1707-1788.) 

DIE  in  the  religion  in  which  I  was  born,  and  publicly 
attest  that  I  believe  in  Jesus  Christ,  who  came  from 
heaven  to  earth  for  the  salvation  of  men.  —  To  Mad- 
ame Necker,  page  303,   Volume  II,    '  *  The  Salon  of 
Madame  Necker^^^  by  Viscomle  D^ Mauser ville, 

SIR  GAINSFORD  BRUCE, 

Judge  in  the  High  Court  of  Justice,  England. 

jUR  society  does  well  to  put  in  the  very  front  of  its 
title  the  word  "  Religious."  It  is  the  Religious  Tract 
Society ;  it  draws  its  inspiration  from  the  very  source 
and  fount  of  light  and  knowledge.  It  is  a  noble  alli- 
ance of  God's  faithful  people,  differing  no  doubt,  in  some 
smaller  matters,  but  agreeing  in  those  grand  truths  of  Chris- 
tianity which  they  hold  in  common.  In  this  society  you 
liave  a  firm  hold  of  your  principles  that  have  been  professed 
by  loyal  people  for  nineteen  hundred  years  all  over  the  world. 
Yet  while  you  are  wide  in  your  sympathy,  and  tolerant  in 
your  action,  you  hold  your  principles  very  fast,  and  you  pro- 
fess no  false  alliance  with  those  who  would  set  forth  a  Christ- 
ianity without  a  Christ,  or  a  creed  without  a  God. — An  ad- 
dress on  taking  the  Chair  at  the  ninety-fourth  anniversary  of 
the  Religious  Tract  Society,  London. 


A   CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 


53 


ROBERT  BROWNING, 

English  Poet.     (1812-1890.) 

This  Book's  fruit's  plain 
And  needs  not  miracle  to  justify 
It  any  more. 

Morality  to  the  uttermost, 
Supreme  in  Christ  as  we  all  confess, 
Why  need  we  prove  what  would  avail  no  jot 
To  make  Him  God  if  God  He  were  not  ? 
What  is  the  point  where  Himself  lays  stress  ? 
Does  the  precept  run,  "  Believe  in  Good, 
In  Justice,  Truth,  now  understood 
For  the  first  time  ?  "—or  "  believe  in  Me, 
Who  lived  and  died,  yet  essentially 
Am  Lord  of  Life." 


^T  is  the  great  thing — 

the  greatest — that  a 

humble  being  should 
have  passed  the  pro- 
bation of  life,  and  should 
sum  up  its  experience  in 
a  witness  to  the  power 
and  love  of  God.  I  con- 
gratulate you.  All  the 
help  I  can  offer  is  the  as- 
surance that  I  see  more 
reason  to  hold  by  the  same 
hope — and  that  by  no  means  ignorant  of  what  has  been  ad- 
vanced against  it.  For  your  sake,  I  wish  I  had  the  genius 
which  you  attribute  to  me — a  specially  privileged  insight, 
that  I  might  put  it  in  aid  of  the  ordinary  argument.  For  I 
know  I  myself  have  been  aware  of  something  more  than 
ratiocinative  process  when  the  convictions  of  genius  have 
filled  my  soul  to  its  depths ;  as  when  Napoleon,  shutting  up 
the  New  Testament,  said  of  Christ :  ''  Do  you  know,  I  am 
an  understander  of  men?  Well,  He  was  no  man." — Letter 
to  a  sick  friend. 


54  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

JOSEPH  EMERSON  BROWN, 

United  States  Senator.     (1821-1894.) 

"N  reply  to  your  letter  asking  a  few  lines  as  to  my  opin= 
ion  of  Christ  and  the  Bible,  I  have  to  state  with  pleas- 
ure that  I  believe  the  Holy  Bible  is  the  inspired  Word 
of  God,  and  contains  the  only  true  rule  of  faith  and 
practice.  I  believe  that  Jesus  Christ  is  the  Son  of  God,  the 
Sovereign  of  the  universe,  and  the  Saviour  of  all  who  be- 
lieve in  Him. 


ROBERT  BRUCE. 

King  of  Scots.     (1274-1329.) 

VOWED  to  God  that  if  I  should  live  to  see  an  end  of 
my  wars,  I  would  then  set  out  in  person,  and  carry 
on  war  against  the  enemies  of  my  Lord  and  Saviour  to 
the  best  of  my  power.  Never  had  my  heart  ceased 
to  bend  to  this  point,  but  our  Lord  has  not  consented  thereto, 
for  I  have  had  my  hands  full  in  my  days,  and  now  at  last  I 
am  seized  with  this  grievious  sickness,  so  that,  as  you  all  see, 
I  have  nothing  to  do  but  to  die.  And  since  my  body  can  not 
go  thither,  and  accomplish  that  which  my  heart  hath  so 
much  desired,  I  have  resolved  to  send  my  heart  there,  in 
place  of  my  body,  to  fulfill  my  vow.  ...  In  place  of 
myself,  therefore,  I  entreat  thee,  my  dear  and  tried  friend, 
that  for  the  love  you  bear  me,  you  will  undertake  this  voyage, 
and  acquit  my  soul  of  its  debt  to  my  Saviour.  —  To  Sir  James 
Douglas.  Page  27,  Volume  /,  of  ''Chronicles  of  England, 
France^  Spain^  and  the  Adjoining  Countries, ' '  by  Sir  John 
Froissart, 


A   CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  55 

JOHN  BROWN, 

Reformer.     (1800- 1859.) 

COMMEND  you  all  to  Him  "whose  mercy  enduretk 
forever,"  to  the  God  of  my  fathers,  "whose  I  am,  and 
whom  I  serve."  "He  will  never  leave  you  nor  for- 
sake you."  Finally,  my  dearly  beloved,  be  of  good 
comfort !  Be  sure  to  remember  and  follow  my  advice,  and 
my  example,  too,  so  far  as  it  has  been  consistent  with  the 
holy  religion  of  Jesus  Christ,  in  which  I  remain  a  most  firm 
and  humble  believer.  Never  forget  the  poor,  nor  think  any- 
thing in  them  to  be  lost  in  you,  even  though  they  may  be 
black  as  Ebedmelech,  the  Ethiopian  eunuch,  who  cared  for 
Jeremiah  in  the  pit  of  the  dungeon ;  or  as  black  as  the  one 
to  whom  Philip  preached  Christ.  —  Page  580,  "  Z^/^  and 
Letters  of  John  Brown^^  by  Frank  B.  Sanborn. 


SIR  GEORGE  BRUCE, 

English  Statesman. 

^71^ ND  what  a  blank  it  would  be  to-day  if  the  religious 
^A^^  agencies  working  for  Jesus  Christ  were  wiped  out 
^  (y^  of  existence,  how  crippled  would  various  agencies 
be  over  the  earth.  Because,  if  ever  there  was  a 
time  when  it  was  necessary,  in  order  to  the  carrying  out  of 
the  great  evangel,  that  there  should  be  a  pure  literature,  a 
literature  steeped  with  the  testimony  of  God's  love,  it  is 
to-day.  .  .  .  It  is  necessary  that  the  Christian  Church 
should  see  that  the  power  of  the  press  is  wielded  so  that  the 
truth  shall  be  within  reach  of  all  our  children,  literature 
which  shall  do  them  good,  and  give  them  something  which 
they  can  have  in  their  hand  to  tell  them  of  Christ  and  His 
great  salvation. — Delivered  in  Exeter  Hall  at  the  Anniver- 
sary Meeting  of  the  Religious  Tract  Society^  May  8,  1891. 


56  A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

FELIX  BRUNOT, 

President  of  the  American  Reform  Association; 
Philanthropist. 

REJOICE  in  the  thought  that  my  feet  were  early 
guided  to  my  Saviour,  Jesus  Christ.     He  is  now  the 
Rock  on  whom  I  rest  all  my  comfort  and  trust ;    as 
earthly  things  lose  power  to  impart  real  joy,  heavenly 
things  abound  in  peace  and  consolation. 

The  Holy  Scriptures,  given  to  man  by  Divine  inspiration, 
that  reveals  to  us  this  wonderful  and  blessed  Redeemer,  is 
daily  more  prized  by  me,  and  taken  in  its  plainest  meaning, 
I  find  it  a  sufficient  and  abiding  guide  under  all  the  condi- 
tions of  life. 


/    ^   ^^A--M^<^, 


JAMES  BUCHANAN, 

Fifteenth  President  of  the  United  States.     (1791-1868.) 

"E  are  both  at  a  period  of  life  when  it  is  our  duty 
to  relax  our  grasp  on  the  world  fast  receding,  and 
fix  our  thoughts,  desires,  and  affections  on  One 
who  knows  no  change.  I  trust  in  God  that, 
through  the  merits  and  atonement  of  His  Son,  we  may  both 
be  prepared  for  the  inevitable  change. — ^''Life  of  James  Bu- 
£hanan^''  by  George  Tichnor  Curtis. 


THE  RIGHT  HONORABLE  JAMES  BRYCE, 

Member  of  Parliament  since  1880 ;  Author. 

VERY  soul  is  precious,  because  it  is  in  direct  relation 
to  God.  The  value  of  man's  soul  is  measured  by  the 
death  of  the  Saviour.  It  is  indeed  the  sheet-anchor 
of  humanity.  ...  All  men  are  born  equal ;  all 
men  die  equal ;  all  souls  are  immortal,  and  Christ  died  for 
all. — ''Equality,^'  by  James  Bryce,  "  The  Century  Illustrated 
Magazine, ' '  July,  1898. 


A  CLOUD  OF  WITNESSES.  57 

JAMES  BUCHANAN. 

Congressman. 

COUNT  that  man  my  worst  enemy  who  would  en- 
deavor to  weaken  my  faith  in  the  Bible  as  the  very 
revealed  Word  of  God,  or  in  Jesus  Christ  as  the 
atonement  for  sin.  He  would  darken  for  me  the 
only  light  which  shines  over  and  beyond  the  dark  river. 
He  would  take  from  me  the  only  hope  I  have  that  my  sinful 
nature  may  be  purified,  and  fitted  to  dwell  in  happiness  in 
the  presence  of  a  pure  and  sinless  God  forever. 


^4^4.  <^*./^  ^^C^U..^^ 


^<^^^< 


WILLIAM  CULLEN  BRYANT, 

Poet  and  Journalist.     (1794-1878.) 

'HE    sacredness    of 

the  Bible  awes  me, 

and   I  approach  it 

with  the  same  sort 
•of  reverential  feeling  that 
an  ancient  Hebrew  might 
be  supposed  to  feel  who 
was  about  to  touch  the  ark 
of  God  with  unhallowed 
hands. — Park  Goodwin^  s 
''''Life  of  William  Cullen 
Bryant,^^ 

I  can  not  but  lament  the 
tendency  of  the  time,  en- 
couraged by  some  in  the 
zealous  prosecution  of  science,  to  turn  its  attention  from  the 
teachings  of  the  Gospel,  for  the  beautiful  precepts  of  Christ's 
life,  and  the  supremely  excellent  precepts  which  He  gave 
His  disciples,  and  the  people  who  resorted  to  hear  Him.   To 


58  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

these  teachings  the  world  owes  its  recovery  from  the  abom- 
inations of  heathenism.  The  very  men  who,  in  the  pride  of 
their  investigations  into  the  secrets  of  the  internal  world,  turn 
a  look  of  scorn  upon  the  Christian  system  of  belief,  are  not 
aware  how  much  of  the  peace  and  order  of  society,  how 
much  the  happiness  of  households,  and  the  purest  of  those 
who  are  dearest  to  them,  are  owing  to  the  influence  of  that 
religion  extending  beyond  their  sphere.  ...  In  my  view,, 
the  life,  the  teachings,  the  labors,  and  the  sufferings  of  the- 
blessed  Jesus,  there  can  be  no  admiration  too  profound,  no 
love  of  which  the  human  heart  is  capable  too  warm,  no  grati- 
tude too  earnest  and  deep  of  which  He  is  justly  the  object. — 
Page  275,  ^''Life  of  William  Cullen  Bryant^^  by  John  Bigelow,. 
This  poet's  daughter  says:  '^At  Naples  he  made  a  public 
profession  of  faith  in  Christ  as  his  personal  Saviour." — Page 
278  ^  last  authority. 


WILLIAM  ALFRED  BUCKINGHAM, 

"War  Governor."     (1804-1875.) 

WAS  then,  as  always  afterwards,  impressed  with  his 
earnest  advocacy  of  the  cause  of  the  weak,  his  Chris- 
tian faith,  and  what  was  far  more,  his  Christian  life.'* 
"  There  is,  in  this  unbelieving  generation,  a  loud,, 
desperate,  if  not  devilish  element,  hoping  nothing  here,  and 
fearing  nothing  hereafter,  which  screams  with  derision  of  the 
Christian  statesman.  Standing  by  the  grave  of  Governor 
Buckingham,  I  must  not  forget  to  tell  the  world  that  he  was 
a  Christian  statesman." 

"  He  can  well  bear  the  name  of  Christian  statesman ;  for 
though  in  these  days,  when  clouds  of  calumny  are  thick 
about  the  heads  of  all  men  in  public  life,  it  is  the  fashion  of 
some  to  speak  sneeringly  of  Christian  statesmen,  yet  the 
bitterest  scoffer  and  traducer  can  well  mention  the  name  of 
William  A.  Buckingham  as  a  Christian  statesman  without  a 
sneer.— Prom  Memorial  Addresses  of  Congressmen  and  Sena- 
tors^ delivered  in  Washington.^  February  27  and  March  i,  1877* 


POPULAR  AMERICAN  JOURNALISTS, 


Whitelaw  Reid, 

Page  378. 

Charles  Anderson  Dana,  Herman  H.  Kohlsaat, 

Page  112.  Page  268. 

George  William  Curtis, 

Page  1 10. 

Henry  Watterson,  Henry  Woodfin  Grady. 

Page  490.  Page  168. 

Elliott  F.  Shepard, 

Page  408. 


A  CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  59 

GEORGE  EUGENE  BELKNAP,* 

Rear-Admiral  United  States  Navy. 


0  nation  can  materially  enlarge  her  borders  and  rise 
to  great  ascendancy  except  on  the  basis  of  Christian- 
)  ^    ity  and  its  revealed  Word.     In  such  ferment  of  un- 
rest, such  tumult  of  change,  the  old  religions  will 
surely  give  way  to  the  power  of  the  Cross. 

The  Light  of  the  World  will  irradiate  those  fair  lands. 
The  utterly  indifferent  temperament  of  the  Chinese  conduces 
to  this  ambition  of  Japan,  and  so  surely  as  she  accomplishes 
her  lofty  ambition,  so  surely  will  the  Cross  of  our  Saviour  be 
uplifted  over  it  all  in  all  the  significance  of  its  power, 

*  "As  an  eye-witness,  I  assert  it  to  be  a  fact  beyond  contradiction  that 
there  is  not  an  ofl&cial,  or  any  other  person,  from  emperors,  down  to  the 
lowest  coolies  in  China  and  Japan,  who  are  not  indebted  every  day  to  the 
work  of  our  American  Missionaries." 


EDWARD  GEORGE  E.  BULWER-LYTTON, 

British  Novelist.     (1805-1873.) 

GOD  !  "  the  last  Crusader  cried, 
"And  art  Thou  careless  of  Thine  own  ? 
For  us  Thy  Son  in  Salem  died, 
And  Salem  is  the  Scoflfer's  throne !  " 

Swift  as  he  spoke,  before  his  sight, 
A  form  flashed,  white-robed,  from  above; 
All  Heaven  was  in  those  looks  of  light, 
But  Heaven,  whose  native  air  is  love. 

"Alas !  "  the  solemn  vision  said, 
"  Thy  God  is  of  the  shield  and  spear — 
To  bless  the  quick  and  raise  the  dead 
The  Saviour-God  descended  here ! 

"Ask  not  the  Father  to  reward 

The  hearts  that  seek,  through  blood,  the  Son; 

O  warrior,  never  by  the  sword 

The  Saviour's  Holy  Land  is  won  !  " 


6o  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

JEAN  DE  LA  BR.UYERE, 

French  Author  and  Moralist.    (1646-1696.) 

COULD  not  be  an  atheist.  ...  I  admire  God  itr 
His  works  and  Word,  and  I  seek  by  the  knowledge  of 
the  truth  to  regulate  my  mind  and  heart  and  become 
better.  .  .  .  When  we  admit  the  coming  of  Christ, 
His  mission,  and  His  grace,  of  what  help,  of  what  use,  I  pray 
you,  could  they  be  to  man  if  they  did  not  strengthen  his 
weakness;  if,  finding  himself  inclined  to  vice,  they  did  not 
reform  him ;  and  if  they  did  not  make  him  strong  and  perse- 
vering in  righteousness? — ''Dialogue  II I ^^^  p^g^  589. 


EDWARD  ROBERT  BULWER-LYTTON, 

British  Poet.     (1331-1891.) 


WHO  BY  SEARCHING  CAN  FIND  OUT  GOD? 


Our  nature  is  not  one  with  the  Divine. 

Not  so.     The  Man-God  dies ;  and  by  His  death 
Doth  with  His  own  immortal  Hfe  combine 

The  spirit  pining  in  this  mortal  breath. 
Who  from  Himself,  Himself  did  alienate, 

That  He,  returning  to  Himself,  might  pave 

A  pathway  hence,  to  heaven  from  the  grave, 
For  man  to  follow  through  the  heavenly  gate. 


And  so  the  Prince  of  Life,  in  dying,  gave 

Undying  life  to  mortals.     Once  He  stood 
Among  His  fellows  this  side  the  grave, 

A  man,  perceptible  to  flesh  and  blood : 
Now,  taken  from  our  sight.  He  dwells  no  less 

Within  our  mortal  memory  and  thought ; 

The  mystery  of  all  He  was  and  wrought 
Is  made  a  part  of  general  consciousness. 
And  in  this  consciousness  I  reach  repose. 


A   C1.0UD   OF   WITNESSES.  6l 

CHRISTIAN  KARL  JOSIAS  BUNSEN, 

Prussian  Scholar  and  Ambassador.     (1791-1860.) 

ITH  all  feebleness  and  imperfection  I  have  ever 
lived,  striven  after,  and  willed  the  best  and  no- 
blest only.  But  the  best  and  noblest  is  to  have 
known  Jesus  Christ.  .  .  .  Christ  is  the  Son 
of  God,  and  we  only  His  sons  if  the  spirit  of  love  which  was 
in  Christ  is  also  in  us. — Pages  390  and  392,  '' Memoir s^^^  by 
Frances  Baroness  Bu7tsen. 

I  hope  that  our  children  and  our  children's  children  will 
see  religious  liberty,  not  only  in  this  land  and  in  my  own 
countr}^,  but  over  the  whole  world  ;  when  the  Bible  and  the 
faith  of  the  Gospel  will  form  the  basis,  as  it  is  the  only 
basis,  of  civil  and  religious  liberty,  for  the  Bible  is  the  only 
cement  of  nations,  and  the  only  cement  that  can  bind  relig- 
ious hearts  together ;  and  that  this  great  and  glorious  insti- 
tution, the  mother  of  hundreds  of  blessed  institutions  all 
over  the  world,  will  be  at  the  head  of  all,  proclaiming  the 
Word  of  God  as  the  foundation  of  all  peace  and  happiness  in 
this  world,  and  in  that  which  is  to  come. — A  passage  in  an 
address  before  the  British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society^  1852. 


'^ 


ROBERT  JONES  BURDETTE, 

Humorist. 

.HRIST,  our  Saviour,  alone  stands  high  as  heaven  above 
<^  all  criticism.  Like  the  Wise  Men,  led  by  the  stars, 
we  fall  at  His  feet  and  worship  Him  to  declare:  "I 
see  no  fault  in  Him,"  and  then  order  Him  to  be  put 
to  death.  "Whereunto  shall  I  liken  my  kingdom?"  ex- 
claimed the  Christ.  And  the  highest  intellect,  the  pro- 
foundest  knowledge,  scanning  every  page  of  history,  can  find 
no  man  or  angel  with  whom  we  can  compare  Jesus  of  Naza- 
reth, the  Man  incomparable,  the  very  God. 


62     .  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

BJORNSTJERNE  BJORNSON, 

Norwegian  Author. 


CHORUS  WITHIN  THE  CHURCH. 

^-^ 

\OME,  child,  come,  bride, 
To  God's  own  side. 
From  grief  find  rest 
On  Jesus'  breast. 
Rest  thy  burden  of  sorrow 

On  Horeb's  height ; 
Like  the  lark,  with  tomorrow 

Shall  thy  soul  take  flight. 

Here  stilled  is  all  yearning, 
No  passion  returning, 
No  terror  came  near  thee 
Where  the  Saviour  can  hear  thee  ! 
For  He,  if  in  need  be 

Thy  storm-beaten  soul. 
Though  it  bruised  as  a  reed  be, 

Shall  raise  it  up  whole. 


ELIHU  BURRITT, 

Author  and  Linguist.     (1810-1879,) 

HAT  is  remarkable,  when  he  (Junius  Brutus  Booth) 
was  inclined  to  give  an  illustration  of  this  faculty 
to  private  circles  of  friends  he  nearly  always  select- 
ed some  passages  of  Job,  David,  or  Isaiah,  or  other 
holy  men  of  old.  When  an  aspiring  professor  of  Harvard 
went  to  him  by  night  to  ask  a  little  advice  or  instruction  in 
qualifying  himself  for  an  orator,  the  veteran  tragedian  opened 
the  Bible  from  Isaiah  in  a  way  that  made  the  Cambridge 
scholar  tremble  with  awe,  as  if  the  prophet  had  risen  from 
the  dead,  and  was  uttering  sublime  visions  in  his  ear. 

John  SmeaTON,  (1724-1792),  Originator  and  Builder  of  the  "  Eddystone 
Ivighthouse."  He  had  learned  the  value  of  religious  truth,  and  in  passing 
through  the  valley  and  shadow  of  death,  his  sole  help  was  the  mercy  of  a 
Redeemer ;  and  hence  he  listened  with  delight  to  the  promises  of  Holy 
Writ.  — "77f^  Story  of  John  Smeaton  aud  the  Eddystone  Light  housed 


A   CI.OUD    OF   WITNESSES.  63 

Suppose,  for  instance,  we  could  see  with  their  eyes  the 
historical  God  of  the  universe,  as  He  sees  them;  that  He 
could,  as  it  were,  photograph  their  impersonation  of  His 
being  •  the  humanity  they  made  Him  wear ;  the  throne  they 
seat  Him  on ;  the  crown  they  place  on  His  head ;  the  robes 
they  clothe  Him  with ;  His  heaven.  His  angels,  our  Saviour 
at  His  side ;  and  the  spirits  of  the  just  made  perfect  in  the 
forms  they  give  them.  If  we  could  see  all  these  embodi- 
ments of  their  conception,  we  should  get  a  clear  view  of  the 
faculty  of  idealism  in  the  highest  realm  of  spiritual  life,  as 
well  as  in  that  general  progress  and  well-being  of  mankind 
which  we  call  civilization. — See  ^''Life  of  Elihu  Burritt^^  by 
Charles  Northend. 


ROBERT  BURNS, 

Scottish  Poet.     (1759-1796.) 


?y7\?  mind  pervaded,  actuated,  and  governed  by  purity, 
^^LQJL  truth,  and  charity,  though  it  does  not  merz'^  heaven, 
^  (v  y^^  ^^  ^^  ^^  absolutely  necessary  prerequisite,  with- 
out which  heaven  can  neither  be  obtained  nor 
enjoyed ;  and  by  Divine  promise  such  -a  mind  shall  never 
fail  of  "attaining  everlasting  life;"  hence  the  impure,  the 
deceiving,  and  the  uncharitable  extrude  themselves  from 
eternal  bliss  by  their  unfitness  for  enjoying  it.  The  Supreme 
Being  has  put  the  immediate  administration  of  all  this,  for 
wise  and  good  ends  known  to  Himself,  into  the  hands  of 
Jesus  Christ,  a  great  Personage,  whose  relations  to  Him  we 
can  not  comprehend,  but  whose  relation  to  us  is  that  of  guide 
and  Saviour ;  and  who  except  for  our  obstinacy  and  miscon- 
duct, will  bring  us  all,  through  various  ways  and  by  various 
means,  to  bliss  at  last. — See  ^^Development  of  English  Liter- 
ature and  Language ^''^  Volume  LL^  page  236,  by  Alfred  Welsh, 


I  cast  myself  on  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  for  mercy. — John 
Randolph' s  last  words. 


64 


A   ClyOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


EDMUND  BURKE, 

English  Statesman  and  Orator.     {1729-1797.) 


IRST,  according  to 
cO  I  !\  the  ancient,  good,  and 
^-^  laudable  custom,  of 
which  my  heart  and 
understanding  recognize  the 
propriety,  I  bequeath  my 
soul  to  God,  hoping  for  His 
mercy  through  the  only 
merits  of  our  Lord  and  Sav- 
iour Jesus  Christ. — P.  441, 
Volume  11^  ^^Life  of  Edmund 
Burke ^^^  by  Robert  Bissel. 
The  Scripture  is  no  one 
summary  of  doctrines  regularly  digested,  in  which  a  man 
could  not  mistake  his  way ;  it  is  a  most  remarkable,  but  most 
multifarious,  collection  of  the  records  of  the  Divine  economy ; 
a  collection  of  an  infinite  variety  of  theology,  history,  prophe- 
cy, psalmody,  morality,  allegory,  legislation,  carried  through 
different  books,  by  .different  authors,  at  different  ages,  for 
different  ends  and  purposes. — Page  90,  Volume  VI^  ^^The 
Works  and  Correspondence  of  the  Right  Honorable  Edmund 
Burked 


BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN  BUTLER, 

Lawyer  and  Attorney-General  under  President  Jackson. 
(1795-1858.) 

E  is  truly  happy,  whatever  may  be  his  temporal  con- 
dition, who  can  call  God  his  Father  in  the  full  assur- 
ance of  faith  and  hope.  And  amid  all  his  trials,  con- 
flicts, and  doubts,  the  feeblest  Christian  is  still  com- 
paratively happy  ;  because  cheered  by  the  hope — faint  and 
humble  though    it   be — that  the  hour  is  coming   when  he 


A  CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES.  65 

shall  be  delivered  from  "this* body  of  sin  and  death,"  and  in 
the  vision  of  his  Redeemer,  and  by  a  never-ending  pro- 
gression in  knowledge  and  virtue,  approximate  to  the  per- 
fection and  felicity  of  angels.  Not  only  does  the  Bible  in- 
culcate, with  sanctions  of  the  highest  import,  a  system  of  the 
purest  morality,  but  in  the  person  and  character  of  our 
blessed  Saviour  it  exhibits  a  tangible  illustration  of  that  sys- 
tem. In  Him  we  have  set  before  us — what,  till  the  publica- 
tion of  the  Gospel,  the  world  had  never  seen — a  model  of 
feeling  and  action,  adapted  to  all  times,  places,  and  circum- 
stances; and  combining  so  much  of  wisdom,  benevolence, 
and  holiness,  that  none  can  fathom  its  sublimity ;  and  yet, 
presented  in  a  form  so  simple,  that  even  a  child  may  be 
made  to  understand  and  taught  to  love  it. — From  an  address 
delivered  at  Alexandria^  D.  C,  1834. 


MARIE  FERDINAND  BRUNETIERE, 

Semitic    Editor   of    the    Revue    des    Deux    Mondes;     one    of    the    Forty 
Immortals  of  the  French  Academy. 

"AS  science  fulfilled  one  of  the  promises  with  which  it 
started?  Has  it,  as  Condorcet  thought,  established 
a  universal  morality?  Has  it  "organized  humanity," 
as  Renan  expected  it  to  do?  Has  it  told  man  any- 
thing of  his  origin  or  destiny?  Has  it  even  explained  the 
origin  of  language,  of  society,  or  laws  of  conduct?  The 
Hellenists,  it  is  true,  have  discovered  the  scattered  fragments 
of  the  Sermon  on  the  Mount  in  the  "Manual  of  Epictetus" 
or  the  "  Thoughts  of  Marcus  Aurelius."  But  they  have  never 
explained  why  the  Sermon  on  the  Mount  has  conquered  the 
world,  while  the  Manual  and  the  Thoughts  have  remained 
barren  pieces  of  literature.  After  all  has  been  said,'^ there 
remains  something  in  Christianity  which  Hellenism  can  not 
explain.  The  Hebraists  have  no  better  fortune.  .  .  .  But 
after  all  their  labors  there  remains  something  in  the  Bible 
which  is  found  in  no  other  book  and  in  no  other  history. — 
'•^Bankruptcy  of  Science  ^''^  by  M.  Bitmeteire. 


66  A    CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES. 

HEZEKIAH  BUTTERWORTH, 

Author. 

ARABBAS  saw  the  darkened  eartli 

When  came  the  hour  of  noon, 
And  slept  in  peace  when  Jesus  wept 

Beneath  the  paschal  moon. 
O  man  of  sin  !  in  Thee  I  see 

Myself  redeemed  by  grace ; 
The  blood-stained  Cross  that  rose  for  thee 

Took  every  sinner's  place. 


SIR  GEORGE  BADEN-POWELL, 

Late  Member  of  British  Parliament    1885- 1898.     Political  Economist. 

(1847-1898.) 

HAVE  traveled  a  good  deal,  both  in  the  tropics  and 
Arctic,  and  I  have  known  of  many  sailors  who  have 
been  brought  from  godless  men  to  our  Lord  and  Sav- 
iour. By  sowing  the  good  seed  of  God's  Word  we 
can  reap  a  great  harvest,  and  thus  discharge  our  duty  to  our 
seamen,  our  country,  and  our  common  Christianity. — From 
' '  The  Word  on  the  Waters. ' ' 


SIR  HENRY  HOWE  BEMROSE, 

Member  of  British  Parliament. 

^LD  faiths  are  giving  way  to  the  Christian  faith,  and 
wherever  the  flag  of  a  nation  is  planted  the  flag  of 
Prince  Immanuel  is  planted.  An  American  Commo- 
dore (*),  on  entering  the  Bay  of  Yeddo,  placed  the 
American  flag  on  the  capstan  of  the  ship  and  on  the  flag  an 
open  Bible,  and  the  sound  of  Old  Hundred  sang  by  the  crew 
echoed  in  the  bay.  This  seems  a  type  of  what  is  going  on 
under  our  eyes  to-day ;  a  prophecy  of  that  for  which  we  must 
pray  and  work,  that  the  kingdoms  of  this  world  shall  be  the 
kingdom  of  God  and  His  Christ. — Church  Missionary  Intelli- 
gencer^ June^  1896. 

*See  page  350. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  07 

SIR  THOMAS  FOWELL  BUXTON, 

English  Philanthropist.     (1786-1845.) 

HOLD  the  Scriptures  with  great  interest,  and,  I  want 
to  say,  happiness.  I  am  sure  that  some  of  the  best 
hours  that  I  spend  are  while  reading  my  Bible,  which 
is  as  great  as  a  Book  can  be. — Page  169,  ''Study  for 
Young  Men^ ' '  by  Thomas  Btnney. 

May  we,  whilst  here,  whether  called  to  do  or  to  suffer,  be 
each  other's  joy  in  the  Lord,  and  when  the  end  comes, 
through  a  Saviour's  love  and  merits,  may  we  behold  the 
King  in  His  beauty,  and  rejoice  in  His  presence  forever. 

.  The  Lord  bless  us  with  a  sense  of  His  mercy,  His  love, 
and  His  indulgent  kindness  to  us,  and  give  us  an  anxious 
desire  to  serve  him,  and  to  please  him  for  Christ's  sake. — 
Pages  595,  601,  0/  his  Life^  by  Charles  Buxton. 


SIR  THOMAS  FOWELL  BUXTON, 

'English  Statesman. 

E  can  not  help  but  believe  that  in  spite  of  the  con- 
flicts, one  thing  has  gone  steadily  on,  and  that  is, 
love  for  the  Bible  and  for  Christian  truth. — From 
a  missionary  talk  at  Exeter  Hall^  May  2,  1892. 
At  the  beginning  of  the  week  was  held  the  annual  meeting 
of  the  Church  Missionary  Society.  I  suppose  it  was  never 
better  attended,  and  the  great  truth  was  never  more  power- 
fully enforced  that  it  is  one  of  the  central  duties  of  the  Chris- 
tian Church  to  convey  the  Gospel  of  our  Lord  and  Saviour 
Jesus  Christ  to  all  the  heathen  and  Mohammedan  world.  The 
next  day  was  held  the  meeting  of  the  Bible  Society,  and 
there,  too,  its  supporters  were  reminded  of  the  great  duty 
which  lies  upon  us  of  making  the  Word  of  God  known 
throughout  the  world.  And  this  evening  we  are  met  to  know 
how  far  the  work  of  this  Society  is  carrying  on  and  helping 


68  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

the  same  important  purpose,  how  far  it  is  performing  its  part 
toward  helping  the  great  work  of  societies  such  as  those  by 
the  supply  of  literature  which  will  attract  by  every  art  known 
to  those  who  make  books,  and  which  by  its  books,  leaflets, 
pamphlets,  and  tracts  shall  prepare  the  way  to  extend  the 
knowledge  of  the  Word  of  God. — Extract  of  an  address  as 
Chairman  of  the  Religious   Tract  Society^  May  6,   1887. 


LORD  GEORGE  GORDON  BYRON, 

English  Poet       (1788-1824.) 

^N  the  fifteenth  canto  of  one  of  his  poems,  he  asks  these 
questions: 

"  Was  it  not  so,  great  Locke  ?  and  greater  Bacon  ? 
Great  Socrates  ?  and  Thou,  Diviner  still  ?  (^) 

In  the  footnote  referred  to  he  defines  his  meaning  more 
particularly :  "  (*)  As  it  is  necessary  in  these  times  to  avoid 
ambiguity,  I  say  that  I  mean  by  '  Diviner  still,'  Christ.  If 
ever  God  was  man,  or  man  God,  he  was  both.  I  never  ar- 
raigned His  creed,  but  the  use  or  abuse  of  it." — Page  339, 
Volume  X^  British  Poets. 

"Prayer,"  said  Lord  Byron,  at  Cephalonia,  "does  not  con- 
sist in  the  act  of  kneeling,  nor  in  repeating  words  in  a  solemn 
manner.  Devotion  is  the  affection  of  the  heart,  and  this  I 
feel ;  for  when  I  view  the  wonders  of  creation,  I  bow  to  the 
majesty  of  Heaven,  and  when  I  feel  the  enjoyment  of  life, 
health,  and  happiness,  I  am  grateful  to  God  for  having  be- 
stowed these  upon  me."  All  that  is  well,  so  far  as  it  goes, 
but  to  be  a  Christian,  you  must  go  farther.  "I  read  more  of 
the  Bible  than  you  are  aware,"  he  continued;  "I  have  a  Bi- 
ble which  my  slater  gave  me,  who  is  an  excellent  woman, 
and  I  read  it  very  often."  He  then  went  into  his  bedroom, 
on  saying  this,  and  brought  out  a  pocket  Bible,  finely  bound, 
and  showed  it  to  me. — ^^ Kennedy''  s  Conversation  with  Lord 
Byron^^  page  135;  also^  see  footnote  in  ''''Cainy 


A   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES.  69 

HENRY  CALDERWOOD, 

Professor  of  Moral  Philosophy  in  the  University 
of  Edinburg. 

HE  Bible  makes  it  essential  to  the  government  of  the 
<^  world,  in  harmony  with  fixed  laws,  that  God  should 
be  the  hearer  and  answerer  of  the  prayer  of  His  in- 
telligent creatures,  always  pointing  to  reliance  upon 
the  Saviour's  work  as  the  test  of  the  reality  of  the  exercise 
in  the  case  of  all  who  profess  the  written  revelation  of  His 
will,  in  the  glorious  gospel  of  Jesus  Christ. — Pages  307  and 
310,  ''^Relation  of  Science  and  Religion^''  by  Henry  C alder- 
wood. 

SIR  LEONARD  CALVERT, 

(LORD   BALTIMORE.) 

Founder  of  Maryland      (1582-1632.) 

DO  further  swear  that  I  will  not  myself,  nor  any  other 
person,  directly  or  indirectly,  trouble,  molest,  or  dis- 
countenance any  person  whatever,  in  the  said  prov- 
ince, professing  to  believe  in  Jesus  Christ. — Form  of 
oath  prescribed  by  Lord  Baltimore  in  Governor  Stone'' s  time. 
Great  and  manifold  are  the  benefits  wherewith '  Almighty 
God  hath  blessed  this  colony,  first  brought  and  planted 
within  the  province  of  Maryland,  at  your  lordship's  charge, 
and  continued  by  your  care  and  industry,  in  the  happy  resti- 
tution of  a  blessed  peace  unto  us,  being  lately  wasted  by  a 
miserable  dissension  and  unhappy  war.  But  more  estimable 
are  the  blessings  poured,  on  this  province,  in  planting  Chris- ; 
tianity  among  a  people  that  knew  not  God,  nor  had  heard  of 
Christ.  All  which,  we  recognize  and  acknowledge  to  be  done 
and  performed,  next  under  God,  by  your  lordship's  pious  in- 
tention towards  the  advancement  and  propagation  of  the 
Christian  religion,  and  the  peace  and  happiness  of  this  col- 
ony and  province. — A  vote  passed  by  the  Assembly  in  eulogy  of 
Lord  Baltimore^  three  years  after  his  death.  Pages  178  and 
227,  Volume  XIX^  Spark's  ''''Library  of  American  Biography.'''* 


yo  A    CI.OUD    OF    WITNESSES. 

GEORGE  WASHINGTON  CABLE, 

Author  and  Lecturer. 


^ 


jS^T^^  ounce  of  reverence  founded  on  one's  own  personal 
\f^5V  convictions  of  Scripture  truth  is  worth  in  God's  sight 
a  hundredweight  of  mere  traditional  reverence. 
The  Bible,  even  if  every  separate  word  of  it  be 
Divinely  inspired,  is  only  Christianity's  revelation,  the  tree 
that  bears  Christianity.  The  words  of  Christ,  hanging  from 
that  tree,  are  its  fruit. 

All  our  study  of  the  Bible,  with  or  without  books,  should 
give  us  a  result  within  ourselves,  independent  of  books  at 
last,  and  from  first  to  last  should  be  faithful,  diligent  thinking 
— a  thinking  unceasingly  centered  upon  the  problem ;  how 
more  and  more  clearly  and  fully,  day  by  day,  to  achieve  in  all 
our  being,  not  Scripture  lore,  but  the  likeness — and  to  apply 
in  all  our  doings  the  principle  of  Jesus  Christ,  our  Lord. — 
Extracts  from  the  ''''Busy  Mart's  Bible ^^  by  George  W,  Cable, 


GEORGE  JOHN  DOUGLAS  CAMPBELL, 

(DUKE  OF  ARGYLL.) 

British  Statesman  and  Author. 

jN  the  absence  of  Revelation,  or  the  teachings  of  Au- 
thority, fancy  and  imagination  have  no  guide  and  are 
under  no  restraint. 

Of  the  origin  of  religion,  indeed,  as  we  have  already 
seen,  history  can  tell  us  nothing,  because,  unless  the  Mosaic 
narrative  be  accepted,  there  is  no  history  of  the  origin  of  man. 
Christianity  solves  the  difficulty  in  giving  form  or  sub- 
stance to  our  conception  of  the  God-head  by  presenting  the 
image  of  a  Divine  humanity  and  the  history  of  a  perfect  life. 

First  Marquis  of  Argyi^e  (1598-1661):  I  could  die  like  a  Roman, 
but  choose  rather  to  die  like  a  Christian  !  God  is  sealing  my  charter  to  a 
better  inheritance ! 

Ninth  Earl  of  Argyle  (  .  .  .  1685) :  I  freely  forgive  all  men  their 
wrong  and  injuries  done  against  me,  as  I  desire  to  be  forgiven  of  God! 
Lord  Jesus,  receive  me  into  Thy  glory! — See  "'Heroes  of  the  Faith''' 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  7 1 

How  dififerent  this  idea  of  the  methods  in  which  the  Divine 
Spirit  operates  on  the  minds  of  men  from  the  idea  held  on 
the  same  subject  by  that  great  Apostle  of  our  Lord,  whose 
work  it  was  to  spread  among  the  Gentile  world  those  concep- 
tions which  had  so  long  been  the  special  heritage  of  one 
peculiar  people !  How  cautious  Paul  is  when  expressing  an 
opinion  not  directly  sanctioned  by  an  authority  higher  than 
his  own !  "I  think  also  that  I  have  the  Spirit  of  God." — 
Pages  500,  504  and  511,  "TVe^  Unity  of  Nature ^^^  by  the  Duke 
of  Argyll. 

WILL  CARLETON, 

Poet  and  Author. 


EXTRACTS  FROM  "FESTIVALS  OF  THE 
cvoo  NATIONS." 


t^y^ITTLE  by  little,  as  God  gives  us  light, 
C  1/We  read  the  sacred  cipher  of  His  Word ; 
^jS^Not  only  of  His  Word,  but  of  His  works. 
Doth  He  reveal  Himself. 

Mariners  of  royal  life, 

You  who  have  sailed  the  waves  of  strife ; 

You  who  have  breasted  war's  red  billows, 

For  the  meed  of  sacred  fame. 

And  Christ's  holy  sacred  name. 

Now  in  heathen  lands  his  wraith 

In  that  sepulchre  still  lies, 
'Mid  those  hordes  of  pagan  faith. 
Sad  and  suffering  are  his  eyes. 
Drooping  are  His  nail-scarred  hands. 


FRANCIS   MARION   CRAWFORD, 

British  Novelist.  ' 

IHRIST  gave  His  life  for  us,  rot  because  of  our  honor, 
\^  but  because  of  our  dishonor  and  our  sins,  which  are 
so  many  and  grievous ;  and  having  atoned  for  us  in 
His  holy  passion,  He  was  laid  at  rest,  after  the  man- 
ner of  men.  And  the  place  where  He  rested  is  sacred,  for 
the  Lord  from  heaven  lay  therein. — See  Via  Crucis,  by  F. 
Marion  Crawford. 


72 


A   CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

GEORGE  CANNING, 

Prime  Minister  of  England.     (1770-1827.) 


ON  THE  DEATH  OF  HIS  SON. 

INCE  this  world  was  not  the  world  for  thee, 
Far  from  thy  path  removed  with  partial  care 
Strife,  glory,  gain,  and  pleasures,  flowery  snare, 
Bade  earth's  temptations  pass  thee  powerless  by, 
And  fixed  in  heaven  thine  unreverting  eye  ! 
Oh,  marked  from  birth  and  nurtured  for  the  skies : 
In  youth  with  more  than  learning's  wisdom  wise  ! 
As  sainted  martyrs,  patient  to  endure  ! 
Simple  as  unweaned  infancy,  and  pure — 
Pure  from  all  stain  (save  that  of  human  clay, 
Which  Christ's  atoning  blood  hath  washed  away  !) 
By  mutual  sufferings  now  no  more  oppressed. 
Mount  sinless  spirit  to  thy  destined  rest ! — 

— Aldeiis  CyclopcBdia  of  Universal  Literature. 


THOMAS  CAMPBELL, 

English  Poet.     (1777-1844.) 

mAy^  opportunity  served,  and  the  attention  of  the  sufferer 
^^LqV  could  be  aroused,  passages  from  the  Scripture,  par- 
^  \Q^  ticularly  from  the  Gospels  and  Epistles,  were  read, 
and  he  expressed  perfect  assurance  of  hope  through 
the  atonement  of  the  Saviour.  On  several  occasions  he  de- 
clared to  his  niece  a  vivid  sense  of  the  beauty  and  sublimity 
of  the  Bible.  Toward  the  end  he  called  her  to  his  couch 
and  said  :  ''Come,  let  us  sing  praises  to  Christ;"  and  then 
pointing  to  the  bed-side,  he  added,  "Sit  here."  Miss  Camp- 
bell questioned,  "Shall  I  pray  for  you?"  "Oh,  yes,"  he  re- 
plied, "let  us  pray  for  one  another."  It  was  not  long  after 
this  that  he  passed  away  in  sweet  peace. — See  Biography 
published  with  his  poems. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


73 


THOMAS  CARLYLE, 

British  Essayist  and  Historian.     (1795-1881.) 

HE   Hebrew 

Bible,  is  it 

not    before 

all  things 
true  as  no  other 
book  ever  was  or 
will  be  ?—P^^^  388, 
''^Miscellaneous  Pa- 
pers?'' 

In  the  poorest 
cottage  are  books : 
is  one  Book  where- 
in, for  several  thou- 
sands of  years,  the 
spirit    of    man    has 

found     light,    and 

nourishment,  and  an  interpreting  response    to  whatever  is 

deepest  in  him. — Essays  :  ''^Corn-Law  Rhymes.^'' 

The  Bible  itself  has,  in  all  changes  ©f  theory  about  it,  this 
as  its  highest  distinction :  that  it  is  the  truest  of  all  books. 
The  Book  springs,  every  word  of  it,  from  the  intensest  con- 
victions, from  the  very  heart's  core,  of  those  who  penned  it ; 
and  has  not  that  been  a  successful  Book  ?  Did  all  the  Pater- 
noster Rows  of  the  world  ever  hear  of  one  so  successful  ? — 
^^ Critical  and  Miscellaneoiis  Essays^ 

If  thou  ask  to  what  height  man  has  carried  it,  look  to  our 
divinest  symbol:  Jesus  of  Nazareth,  and  His  life,  and  His 
biography,  and  what  followed  therefrom.  Higher  has  the 
human  thought  never  reached ;  this  is  Christianity  and 
Christendom — a  symbol  of  quite  perennial,  infinite  character, 
whose  significance  will  ever  demand  to  be  anew  inquired 
into  and  anew  made  manifest. — '•''Sartor  Resartus^''''  Book 
III,  Chapter  TIL 


74  A    CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES. 

What  was  it  to  the  Pharaohs  of  Egypt  of  that  old  era  if 
Jethro,  the  Midianite  priest  and  grazier,  accepted  the  He- 
brew outlaw  as  his  herdsman  ?  Yet  the  Pharaohs,  with  all 
their  chariots  of  war,  are  buried  deep  in  wrecks  of  time  ; 
and  Moses  still  lives;  not  among  his  own  tribe  only,  but  in 
the  hearts  and  daily  business  of  civilized  nations.  Nay,  to 
take  an  infinitely  higher  instance :  who  has  ever  forgotten 
those  lines  of  Tacitus,  inserted  as  a  small,  transitory,  alto- 
gether trifling  circumstance  in  the  history  of  such  a  potentate 
as  Nero  ?  To  us  it  is  the  most  earnest  and  strongly  signifi- 
cant passage  that  we  know  to  exist  in  writing:  *'So  for 
quieting  of  this  rumor  [of  having  set  fire  to  Rome],  Nero 
judicially  charged  with  the  crime  and  punished  with  the 
most  studied  severities  that  class  hated  for  their  general 
wickedness,  whom  the  vulgar  call  Christians,  The  origin- 
ator of  that  name  was  one  Christy  who,  in  the  reign  of  Ti- 
berius, suffered  death  by  the  sentence  of  the  Procurator 
Pontius  Pilate. ' ' — "  Critical  and  Miscellaneous  Essays, ' ' 


LORD  CRAN BORNE, 

Member  of  Parliament  since  1885. 


HRISTIAN  imperialism  pledges  the  fulfillment  of  the 
<^  Divine  promise  that  the  kingdoms  of  this  world 
shall  become  the  kingdoms  of  our  Lord  and  His 
Christ.  I  do  not  care  in  what  quarter  of  the  globe  it 
may  be,  what  may  be  the  political  exigencies  of  the  time, 
what  colleges  of  secular  instruction  you  may  establish,  un- 
less, sooner  or  later,  in  due  time,  you  carry  with  those  in- 
stitutions the  definite  teachings  of  Christianity,  you  have 
done  nothing  at  all.  We  must  put  the  religion  of  Christ 
before  everything  else. — See  Address,  May^  1899,  Exeter 
Hall,  Church  Missionary  Society, 


Henry  Hai.i.am,  British  Historian  (1777-1859):  I  see 
the  Bible  fits  into  every  fold  and  crevice  of  the  human  heart. 
I  am  a  man,  and  I  believe  that  this  is  God's  Book  because  it 
is  man's  Book. 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES.  75 

JAMES  A.  CAMPBELL, 

Member  of  Parliament. 

OW  the  Lord  seems  to  have  taken  the  key  into  His 
own  hands.  He  opens  and  no  man  shuts;  He  shuts 
and  no  man  can  open.  He  has  turned  the  keys  of 
most  all  these  doors :  He  has  opened  them  in  Africa ; 
He  has  opened  them  in  China;  He  has  opened  them  in 
Japan ;  He  has  opened  them  in  Northwestern  America ;  He 
has  opened  them  in  the  islands  of  the  sea.  The  point  we 
have  to  consider  is,  shall  we  or  shall  we  not  enter  into  these 
open  doors?  Oh,  I  pray  with  all  my  heart  and  soul  that  we 
may  with  one  heart  and  one  voice  exclaim,  "Lord  Jesus, 
open,  we  will  enter!  " — Page  159,  Volume  /,  ^''Report  of  the 
Missionary  Conferences^  London^  1888. 


FRANKLIN  CARTER, 

President  of  Williams  College. 


DO  not  believe  that  testimonies  from  any  merely  hu- 
man source  can  in  the  least  compare  for  authority 
with  Christ's  testimony  of  Himself.  All  goes  back  to 
His  Divine  character  and  work,  and  to  the  response 
of  the  mind  that  loves  purity  and  goodness  to  His  life  and 
words.  We  may  safely  affirm  that  the  character  wholly 
modified  on  His  precepts  and  example  is  not  surpassed  in  the 
annals  of  human  goodness. 


EARL  OF  CAVAN, 

British  Statesman  and  Philanthropist.     (1819-1887.) 

F  it  is  indeed  true  that  our  adorable  Redeemer  is  at  the 
very  gates,  we  ought  to  be  ready  and  waiting  for  His 
triumphant  appearance  when  He  shall  change  our  vile 
bodies  into  the  likeness  of  His  glorious  body.     He  is  a 

present   Saviour  to  every  one  who  believes  in   Him. — See 

Mildmay  Conference  Addresses  ^  1882. 


76  A   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES. 

JACQUES  CARTIER, 

French  Navigator  and  Explorer.     (1494-1555.) 

^N  1535  his  ships  lay  in  the  stream  of  Hochelaga — the 
modern  Montreal — where  the  Indians  gathered  about 
him  to  pay  their  respects.  It  seemed  to  these  poor 
heathen  "  that  God  was  descended  and  come  down 
from  heaven  to  heal  them,"  because  of  the  marked  kindness 
of  Cartier  to  them.  The  best  he  could  do  was  to  pray.  He 
read  the  first  chapter  of  the  Gospel  of  St.  John  and  the  pas- 
sion of  Christ,  and  besought  the  Heavenly  Father  that  He 
would  have  mercy  upon  these  benighted  savages,  and  bring 
them  to  a  knowledge  of  His  holy  Word.  The  Indians  were 
*'  marvellous  attentive,"  looking  to  Heaven  as  the  Christians 
did,  and  imitating  all  the  gestures  of  devotion. — Page  185, 
Volume  /,  '''' Bryant^ s  Popular  History  of  the  United  States y 


LEWIS  CASS, 

Lawyer,  Governor,  General,  Diplomat,  and  United  States 
Senator.     {i782-i86§.) 

OW  are  the  mighty  fallen !  we  may  yet  exclaim,  when 
reft  of  our  great  and  wisest;  but  they  fall  to  rise 
again  from  death  to  life,  when  such  quickening  faith 
in  the  mercy  of  God  and  in  the  sacrifice  of  the  Re- 
deemer comes  to  shed  upon  them  its  happy  influence  this 
side  of  the  grave  and  beyond  it. — From  an  obituary  address 
in  the  United  States  Senate^  December  14,  1852. 

God,  in  His  providence,  has  given  us  a  Book  of  His  re- 
vealed will  to  be  with  us  at  the  commencement  of  our  career 
in  this  life  and  at  its  termination ;  and  to  accompany  us 
during  all  chances  and  changes  of  this  trying  and  fitful  prog- 
iress,  to  control  the  passions,  to  enlighten  the  judgment,  to 
guide  the  conscience,  to  teach  us  what  we  ought  to  do  here, 
and  what  we  shall  be  hereafter. — From  a  letter  dated  at  Wash- 
ington^ 1846. 


EMINENT   EUROPEAN    CHARACTERS. 

HANS  CHRISTIAN   ANDERSEN, 
Page  ij. 
BENEDICT  SPINOZA,  HENRY   FIELDING, 

Page  418.  Page  i4g. 

ALIGHIERI    DANTE, 
Page  iiy. 
THOMAS  DE   QUINCEY,  FRANZ  LISZT, 

Page  1 2 J.  Page  286. 

CHARLES   FRANCOIS   GOUNOD, 
Page  lyg. 


A  CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  77 

CESARE  CANTU, 

Italian  Historian.     (1805-1895.) 

HKY  could  only  look  upon  one  object — the  one  hope 
of  salvation — the  crucified  God  who  suffered  for  us. 
From  time  to  time  were  spoken  some  consoling 
words,  a  simple  prayer,  such  as  our  mothers  taught 
us  in  infancy,  and  which  come  to  us  again  in  the  most  crit- 
ical moments  of  life:  "Saviour,  unto  Thee  I  yield  my 
spirit." — From  his  ''' Mdrgherita  Pusterla,^^ 


WILLIAM  CECIL, 

(LORD  BURLEIGH.) 

Prime  "Minister  of  England.     (1520-1598.) 

.HE  virtuous  inclinations  of  thy  matchless  mother,  by 
whose  tender  and  godly  care  thy  infancy  was  gov- 
erned ;  together  with  the  education  under  so  zealous 
and  excellent  a  tutor,  puts  me  in  rather  assurance 
than  hope  that  thou  art  not  ignorant  of  that  summum  bonum 
which  is  only  able  to  make  thee  happy  and  worship  thy 
Creator  and  Redeemer,  without  which  all  things  are  vain  and 
miserable. —  To  his  son  Robert;  Volume  IV^  of  Charles 
Knighfs  ^^  Half -Hours  with  the  Best  Authors.^'' 


COUNT  CAMILLO  BENSO  CAVOUR. 

Italian  Reformer.       (i8io-i86i.) 

E  was  firmly  attached  to  the  Christian  religion.  His 
mind  was  fixed  in  bringing  about  the  freedom  and 
unity  of  Italy.  His  policy  was  an  entire  separation 
of  Church  and  State.  This  was  diametrically  op- 
posed to  the  prevailing  religion  of  his  country,  and  hence 
met  with  a  strong  opposition  from  the  ecclesiastical  power 
at  Rome. 


78  A   CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES. 

His  views  of  the  future  life  are  given  in  his  dying  words : 
''  I  must  prepare  for  the  great  passage  into  eternity ;  I  have 
confessed  and  have  been  forgiven.  I  desire  that  it  be  known 
— that  the  good  people  of  Turin  may  know — that  I  died 
the  death  of  a  true  Christian.  I  am  without  anxiety.  I 
know  I  have  injured  no  man."  He  then  whispered  his  last 
words:  ''^Libera  chiera  in  libera  stato^^ — a  free  Church  in  a 
free  State. — ''''Life  of  Cavour^^^  by  Mayades. 


ROBERT  CHAMBERS, 

Scottish  Writer  and  Publisher.     (1802-1871.) 

HAT  the  birth  of  Jesus  Christ,  the  Deliverer  of  the 
human  race,  and  the  mysterious  link  connecting  the 
transcendent  and  uncomprehensible  attributes  of 
Deity  with  human  sympathy  and  affection,  should  be 
considered  as  the  most  glorious  event  that  ever  happened, 
and  the  most  worthy  of  being  reverently  and  joyously  com- 
memorated, is  a  proposition  which  must  commend  itself  to 
the  heart  and  reason  of  every  one  of  His  followers  who 
aspires  to  walk  in  His  footsteps  and  share  in  the  ineffable 
benefits  which  His  death  has  secured  to  mankind. — Page 
744,  Volume  11^  "  Chmnbers'  Books  of  Days^  a  Miscellany  of 
Popular  Antiquities^^  edited  by  R.  Chambers. 


HENRI  CHARLES  FERDINAND  MARIE 
DIEUDONNE  CHAMBORD, 

Head  of  the  Elder  Branch  of  the  Bourbon  Dynasty. 
(1820-1883.) 

"  fcJT Y  personality  is  nothing ;  my  principle  is  everything. 
.  ^^\.  France  will  see  the  end  of  her  trials  when  she  is 
^^k^  willing  to  understand  this.     I  am  a  necessary  pilot — 

C/ 

the  only  one  capable  of  guiding  the  ship  to  port, 
because  I  have  for  that  a  mission  of  authority.  You,  sir,  are 
able  to  do  much  to  remove  misunderstandings  and  prevent 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  79 

weaknesses  in  the  hour  of  struggle.  Your  consoling  words 
on  leaving  Salzburg  are  ever  present  to  my  mind.  France 
can  not  perish,  for  Christ  still  loves  His  Franks;  and  when 
God  has  resolved  to  save  a  people,  He  takes  care  that  the 
Sceptre  of  Justice  is  only  put  into  hands  strong  enough  to 
hold  it. — Page  226,  "  Men  of  the  Time^^  by  Thompson. 


CHARLES  1., 

King  of  England.     (1600-1649.) 


DO  here  promise  and  solemnly  vow,  in  the  presence 
and  for  the  service  of  Almighty  God,  that  if  it  shall 
please  the  Divine  Majesty  of  His  infinite  goodness 
to  restore'  me  to  my  just,  kingly  rights,  and  to  re- 
establish me  in  my  throne,  I  will  wholly  give  back  to  His 
Church  all  those  unappropriations  which  are  now  held  by 
the  crown.  ...  I  humbly  beseech  God  to  accept  of  this, 
my  vow,  and  bless  me  in  the  design  I  have  now  in  hand, 
through  Jesus  Christ,  our  Lord. — Charles  R.  Oxford^  April 
13,  1647.  Page  231,  "  The  History  and  Fate  of  Sacrilege  y"* 
by  Sir  Henry  Spellman. 


SALMON  PORTLAND  CHASE, 

Chief-Justice  of  United  States  Supreme  Court,  1864-1873. 
(1808-1873.) 

IVE  me  solid  and  substantial  religion;  give  me  an 
humble,  gentle  lover  of  God  and  man ;  a  man  full 
of  mercy  and  good  fruits,  without  partiality  and 
without  hypocrisy ;  a  man  laying  himself  out  in  the 
works  of  faith,  the  patience  of  hope,  the  labor  of  love.  Let 
my  soul  be  with  those  Christians,  wheresoever  they  are,  and 
whatsoever  opinion  they  are  of. — ^''Life  and  Public  Services 
of  Salmon.  P.  Chase ^"^  h'  J-  ^-  Schuckers. 

When  shall  I  be  thoroughly  imbued  with  a  humble,  self- 
denying,  holy  spirit?     O  Lord,  my  Saviour,  do  Thou  assist 


8o  A   CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES.  j 

and  teach  me!  .  .  .  To-day  I  rose  too  late;  attended 
private  and  family  prayers ;  afterwards  read  several  chapters 
in  lyeviticus,  having  again  began  to  read  the  Scriptures  in 
course,  intending  to  read  the  Old  Testament  in  private,  and 
the  New  with  the  family.  It  is  my  deliberate  opinion  that 
all  the  writings  of  all  moral  and  political  writers  do  not  con- 
tain so  much  practical  wisdom,  whether  applicable  to  state 
or  persons. — ^^ Private  Life  and  Public  Services  of  Salmon  P. 
Chase ^^  by  Robert  B.  Warden. 


THOMAS  CHATTERTON, 

English  Poet.     (1752-1770.) 

AM  fully  assured  that  God  does  not,  and,  therefore, 
that  man  ought  not,  to  require  any  more. of  any  man 
than  this:  to  believe  the  Scripture  to  be  God's  Word; 
to  endeavor  to  find  out  the  true  sense  of  it,  and  to  live 

according  to  it. — Page  389,  Alden^s  Cyclopaedia  of  Universal 

Literature. 


THOMAS  HENRY  HALL  CAINE,* 

English  Novelist. 

^HRIST  died  to  redeem  our  carnal  nature,  and  all  we 
have  to  do  is  to  believe  and  pray.  But  it  is  not 
^^^^1^  enough  that  Christ  died  once;  He  must  be  dying 
always — every  day — and  in  every  one  of  us. 
God  is  calling  on  us  in  this  age  to  seek  a  new  social  appli- 
cation of  His  Gospel,  or  shall  I  say,  to  go  back  to  the  old 
one?  And  that  is  to  present  Christ  in  practical  life  as  the 
living  Master  and  King  and  example,  and  to  apply  Chris- 
tianity to  the  life  of  our  own  time. —  The  Christian. 

*  What  I  have  to  say  on  this  and  kindred  subjects  has  just  been  said  in 
my  "book  called  "The  Christian." 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  8l 

FRANCOIS  AUGUSTE  CHATEAUBRIAND, 

French  W^riter  and  Statesman.     (1768-1848.) 


^pinRISTIANlTY   is 

^J  perfect;  men  are  im-' 
^d-^  perfect.  Now  a  per- 
fect consequence  can 
not  spring  from  an  imperfect 
principle.  Christianity, 
therefore,  is  not  the  work  of 
men.  If  Christianity  is  not 
the  work  of  men,  it  can  come 
from  none  but  God.  If  it 
came  from  God,  men  can  not 
have  acquired  a  knowledge  of  it  except  by  Revelation. 
Therefore  Christianity  is  a  revealed  religion. 

Jesus  Christ  may,  therefore,  with  strict  truth,  in  a  material 
sense,  be  that  Saviour  of  the  world,  which  He  is  in  a 
spiritual  sense.  His  career  on  earth  was,  even  humanly 
speaking,  the  most  important  event  that  has  ever  occurred 
among  men,  since  the  regeneration  of  society  commenced 
only  with  the  proclamation  of  the  Gospel.  A  little  earlier. 
His  morality  would  not  have  been  absolutely  necessary,  for 
the  nations  were  still  upheld  by  their  ancient  laws;  a  little 
later,  that  Divine  necessity  would  have  appeared  after  the 
general  wreck  of  society. — Pages  678  and  679,  "  The  Genitis 
of  Christianity^^  by  Viscount  De  Chateaubriand. 


CHARLES  v., 

King  of  Germany,  and  later  Charles  I.  of  Spain. 
(1500-1558.) 

HAVE  tasted  more  satisfaction  in  my  solitude  in  one 
day,  than  all  the  triumphs  of  my  former  reign.  The 
sincere  study,  profession,  and  practice  of  the  Chris- 
tian religion  have  in  them  such  joys  and  sweetness  - 

as    are   seldom    found  in   courts  and   grandeur. — Page   63, 

^^ Power  of  Religion ^^  by  Lindlcy  Murray. 


82  A   CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

GEOFFREY  CHAUCER, 

English  Poet-Laureate.     (1340-1400.) 


EXTRACTS  FROM 
"THE  CANTERBURY  TALES." 

HO  folwith  Cristes  Gospel  and  His  lore 

But  we,  that  humble  ben,  and  chast,  and  pore, 

Workers  of  Goddes  Word,  not  auditours. 

—  The  Sompnoures  Tale. 

O  cause  first  of  our  confusioun, 

Till  Crist  had  bought  us  with  His  blood  agayn ! 

Now  for  the  love  of  Crist  that  for  us  dyde, 
Levith  youre  othis,  bothe  gret  and  smale. — 

—  The  Par  doner  es  Tale. 


PIERCE  CROSBY, 

Rear-Admiral. 


AM  a  friend  of  Christianity  and  its  Book.  I  believe 
in  the  Divinity  of  Christ,  and  to  the  surpassing 
potency  of  Christianity  as  a  civilizer. 


>^!^?^^^(&it<u^ 


SIR  JOHN  CHEKE, 

English  Statesman.     (1514-1557.) 

EARN  to  know  this  one  point  of  religion,  that  God 

will  be  worshipped  as  He  hath  prescribed,  and  not  as 

V^  we  have  devised.     And  that  His  will  is  wholly  the 

Scriptures,  which  is  God's  spirit,  and  profitable  to  teach 
the  truth.  .  .  .  If  ye  seek  what  the  old  doctors  say,  yet 
seek  what  Christ,  the  oldest  of  all,  saith.  For  he  saith:  "Be- 
fore Abraham  was,  I  am."  If  ye  seek  the  truest  way,  He  is 
the  very  truth ;  if  ye  seek  the  readiest  way.  He  is  the  very 
way;  if  ye  seek  everlasting  life,  He  is  the  very  life. — Page 
373,  Volume  /,  ''''British  Plutarch.^'' 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  85 

JOSEPH  HODGES  CHOATE, 

Lawyer;  Ambassador  to  Great  Britain  under 
President  McKinley. 

.HE  revisers  of  the  English  Bible  gathered  at  Hampton 
Court  at  the  summons  of  King  James,  and  gave  us 
that  matchless  Book — the  Divine  Book — the  only 
Book  for  thinkers,  readers,  scholars,  men,  women, 
and  children ;  if  we  can  have  but  one  book,  O  save  us  that ! 
— From  an  Address  at  Richard  S.  Storr'' s  Jubilee  Service^ 
Brooklyn^  1897. 

Above  all  the  works  of  historians,  poets,  philosophers,  and 
statesmen,  I  would  place  the  Bible.  No  one  who  has  failed 
to  study  carefully  early  colonial  life  could  have  the  least  idea 
of  the  immense  sway  that  Book  had  upon  the  minds  of  the 
early  settlers  of  America,  and  has  had  ever  since  on  the  peo- 
ple of  that  country.  In  many  households  it  was  the-  only 
Book,  a  complete  literature  in  itself. —  From  a  Speech  in 
London  at  the  lo^th  Anniversary  of  the  Royal  Literary  Fund. 


RUFUS  CHOATE,* 

Lawyer.     (1799-1859.) 

WOULD  not  take  the  Bible  from  the  public  schools 
so  long  as  a  particle  of  Plymouth  Rock  was  left  large 
enough  to  make  a  gun -flint  of,  or  as  long  as  its  dust 
floated  on  the  air.  I  would  have  it  read,  not  only  for 
its  authoritative  revelation  and  its  commands  and  exactions, 
obligatory  yesterday,  today,  and  forever,  but  for  its  English, 
for  its  literature,  for  its  pathos,  for  its  imagery,  its  sayings 
of  consolation  and  universal  truth. — Page  ly^^^^ Addresses 
and  Orations^'*  of  Rufus  Choate. 

*  The  Bible  was  a  book  of  constant  study,  and  his  devotion  to  the  New 
Testament  in  Greek  led  Mr.  Webster  to  say,  as  he  examined  Mr.  Choate's 
Library :  "  Thirteen  copies  of  the  Greek  Testament,  and  not  one  copy  of 
the  Constitution  of  your  country !  " — ''Lawyer,  Statesman  and  Soldiery'  by 
George  C.  Boutwell. 


84  A   CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES. 

ISAAC  PECKHAM  CHRISTIANCY, 

Lawyer,  Diplomat,  and  United  States  Senator.     (1812-1890.) 

HAVE  strong  convictions  of  the  truth  of  the  divinity 
of  Christ.  At  my  mother's  knee  I  learned  the  doc- 
trine of  salvation,  the  Sermon  on  the  Mount,  and  all 
the  pure  and  lovely  teachings  of  Jesus.  My  reason 
leads  me  to  the  belief  of  immortality,  as  I  can  form  no  con- 
ception of  annihilation,  and  if  man,  with  all  his  great  facul- 
ties of  mind,  and  all  the  high  aspirations  which  God  has 
given  him,  is  to  end  at  death,  he  seems  to  be  the  greatest 
absurdity  in  the  universe. — Froin  a  leMer  to  IV.  H.  Boyd, 
Monroe,  Mich.,  1888. 


CHARLES  H.  T.  COLLIS, 

Brevet  Major-General  United  States  Volunteers. 

HAVE  no  patience  with  the  man  who  says  what  is 
was  not  the  work  of  a  superior  being,  unless  he  can 
explain  how  it  all  came  about  in  some  other  way.  Up 
to  this  time  human  intellect  has  failed  to  account  for 
it  upon  any  hypothesis  but  that  accepted  by  those  who  be- 
lieve in  God  and  His  Book.  Until  some  other  theory  is  ad- 
vanced which  is  worth  considering,  I  prefer  to  retain  my 
Christian  faith.  The  so-called  inconsistencies  of  the  inspired 
Word  accentuate  its  verity.      ^.^^^^^  ,,^^^,3^^^,,,^. 


EDWARD  DANIEL  CLARKE, 

English  Traveler  and  Mineralogist.     (1769-1822.) 

HE  pure  Gospel  of  Christ,  everywhere  the  herald  of 
civilization  and  of  science,  is  little  known  in  the 
Holy  Land.  .  .  .  The  text  of  Luke  proves  that 
our  Saviour,  when  He  had  delivered  the  prophecy,  was 
**at  the  descent  of  the  Mount  of  Olives,"  although  in  such  a 
situation  that  He  beheld  the  city  and  wept  over  it.  .  .  . 
As  we  descended  from  the  mountain  we  visited  the  Garden  of 
Gethsemane.    This  place  is,  not  without  reason,  shown  as  the 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  85 

scene  of  our  Saviour's  agony  the  night  before  His  crucifixion, 
both  from  the  circumstances  of  the  name  it  still  retains, 
and  its  situation  with  regard  to  the  city. — Pages  138,  355, 
ajid  365,  Volume  IV^  of  ''  Travels  in  Various  Countries  of 
Europe^  Asia^  aftd  Africa ^^^  by  E.  D.  Clark, 


SIR  ANDREW  CLARK, 

^^  ^^  President  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Physicians.     (1826-1893.) 

"^^■"O  one  with  any  wide  experience,  such  as  my  own,  can 


doubt  how  vast,  how  terrible,  how  far-reaching,  are 
the  sins  and  sufferings  of  men  to-day,  as  they  have 
been  in  all  days;  no  one  can  doubt  for  a  moment, 
whatever  be  his  creed,  that  human  remedies  have  been  tried 
and  failed.  No  one  can  doubt  who  has  had  adequate  opportu- 
nities of  observation,  adequate  powers  of  reflection,  that  there 
is  one  remedy,  and  one  alone,  for  all  spiritual  diseases,  and  that 
remedy  is  to  be  found  in  the  person  and  work  of  Jesus 
Christ. — Page  33,  "  Report  of  the  Christian  Evidence  Society ^^'^ 
London^  1890. 


THOMAS  CLARKSON, 

English  Reformer  and  Author.     ( 1 760-1846.) 

^HE  Author  of  our  religion  was  the  first  who  taught 
that  however  in  a  legal  point  of  view  the  talent  of 
individuals  might  belong  exclusively  to  theijiselves, 
so  that  no  other  person  had  the  right  to  demand  the 
use  of  it  by  force,  yet  in  the  Christian  dispensation  they 
were  the  stewards  of  it  for  good.  ...  To  Christianity 
alone  are  we  indebted  for  the  new  and  sublime  spectacle  of 
seeing  men  go  beyond  the  bounds  of  individual  usefulness  to 
each  other — of  seeing  them  associate  for  the  extirpation  of 
private  and  public  misery — as  a  united  brotherhood,  into 
distant  lands. — Chapter  /,  Volume  /,  ^^Clarkson^s  Abolition  of 
the  Slave  Trade.^'' 


86  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

THADDEUS  STEVENS  CLARKSON, 

Late    Commander  in-Chief  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic. 

FIRMLY  believe  in  the  Divinity  of  Christ,  and  the 

authenticity  of  the  Bible.      Without  faith  in  Him  and 

belief  in  the  Holy  Scriptures  life  would  be  scarcely 

worth  the  living.      Christ  and  the  Book  are  a  boon  to 

the  contented  and  a  solace  to  the  unfortunate. 


MATTHIAS  CLAUDIAS, 

German   Poet.      (1743-1815.) 

;^|  O  one  ever  thus  lived  as  Christ  lived,  noi  did  any- 
thing so  truly  great  and  good  as  the  BibL  tells  us 
of  Him  ever  enter  into  the  heart  of  man.  It  is  a 
holy  form  which  rises  before  the  poor  pilgi  im  like  a 
star  in  the  night,  and  satisfies  his  innermost  craving,  his  most 
secret  yearnings  and  hopes. — Brief  an  Andres^  Part  VI . 


CASSIUS  MARCELLUS  CLAY. 

Statesman;  Diplomat  to  Russia  under  Presidents  Lincoln 
and  Grant. 

'HE  Bible,  the  record  of  Divine  Revelation,  is  the  one 
Book  of  religion  and  morals. 

Of  all  religious  systems  the  Christian  is  most  in 
unison  with  the  law  of  God  and  the  needs  of  man. 
The  spirit  of  God  inspires  all  living  things.    Jesus  Christ 
lis  the  leading  inspiration,  and  is,  therefore,  Divine. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  8/ 

HENRY  CLAY, 

United  States  Senator.     (1777-1852.) 

AM  not  afraid  to  die, 

sir;     I    have    hope, 

faith,   and    some 

confidence.  I  have 
an  abiding  trust  in  the 
merits  and  mediation  of 
our  Saviour. 

The  vanity  of  the  world, 
and  its  insufficiency  to  sat- 
isfy the  soul  of  man,  has 
been  long  a  settled  convic- 
tion of  my  mind.  Man's 
inability  to  secure  by  his 
own  merits  the  approbation  of  God,  I  feel  to  be  true.  I 
trust  in  the  atonement  of  the  Saviour  of  mercy,  as  the 
ground  of  my  acceptance  and  of  my  hope  of  salvation. 
—  The  first  testimony  to  Congressman  Venable^  and  the  second 
to  Cojtgressman  John  C.  Breckinridge^  as  declared  in  tlieir 
obituary  addresses  on  the  occasion  of  the  death  of  the  Hon, 
Henry  Clay^  delivered  in  the  Senate  and  in  the  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives of  the  United  States^  June  30,  1852. 


DE  WITT  CLINTON, 

Mayor  of  New  York  City,   1802-1815  ;     Governor  of  New  York,   1817-1822, 
1824-1828.     United  States  Senator.     (1769-1828.) 

.HE  Bible  is  a  revelation  from  God,  intended  for  the 
benefit  of  man,  and  for  his  happiness  in  a  future 
state.  Its  extensive  circulation  is  a  duty  of  the  most 
imperative  nature. 
In  this  state  of  moral  darkness  Jesus  Christ  appeared, 
pointing  out  the  way  to  heaven  and  shedding  light  over  the 
world.  What  was  before  uncertain,  He  rendered  certain; 
for,  to  adopt  the  words  of  the  inspired  apostle,  "He  hath 
abolished  death,  and  hath  brought  life  and  immortality 
through  the  Gospel." — See  Address  before  the  American 
Bible  Society^  May^  1823. 


88  A   CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

THOMAS  SIDNEY  COOPER, 

British  Landscape  and  Animal  Painter ;    •*  Father  of  the 
Royal  Academy  " 

.HE  Bible  brought  me  to  see  I  was  lost  in  sin  and  had 
no  power  to  save  myself.      It  told  me  the  door  of 
mercy  was  open,  and  salvation  was  to  be  freely  had. 
It  showed  me  the  wonderful  sacrifice  of  Jesus  Christ, 
and  through  His  precious  blood,  my  sins  are  all  washed  away. 


/^^3   /^^t^i^o\ 


Note. — This  declaration  in  autograph  is  especially  precious  to  the  Au- 
thor for  the  reason  the  writer  penned  it  in  his  100th  year,  and  in  the  full 
use  of  his  mental  and  physical  powers.  During  that  year  he  finished  four 
paintings  for  the  Royal  Academy. 


SAMUEL  LANGHORNE  CLEMENS, 

(MARK  TWAIN.) 

Humorist  and  Author. 

^T  is  hard  to  make  a  choice  of  the  most  beautiful  passage 
in  a  Book  which  is  so  gemmed  with  beautiful  passages 
as  the  Bible.  .  .  .  Who  taught  these  ancient  writ- 
ers the  simplicity  of  language,  their  felicity  of  expres- 
sion, their  pathos,  and,  above  all,  their  faculty  of  sinking 
themselves  entirely  out  of  sight  of  the  reader  and  making  the 
narrative  stand  out  alone  and  seem  to  tell  itself?  Shake- 
speare is  always  present  when  one  reads  his  book ;  Macaulay 
is  present  when  we  follow  the  march  of  his  stately  sentences ; 
but  the  Old  Testament  writers  are  hidden  from  view. 

One  of  the  most  astonishing  things  that  has  yet  fallen  under 
our  observation  is  the  exceedingly  small  portion  of  the  earth 
from  which  sprang  the  now  flourishing  plant  of  Christianity. 
The  longest  journey  our  Saviour  ever  performed  was  from 
here  to  Jerusalem — about  one  hundred  to  one  hundred  and 
twenty  miles.  The  next  longest  was  from  here  to  Sidon — 
about  sixty  or  seventy  miles.  .  .  .  Leaving  out  two  or 
three  short  journeys.  He  spent  His  life,  preaching  His  Gospel, 
and  performing  His  miracles,  within  a  compass  no  larger  than 
an  ordinary  county  of  the  United  States.     ...     In  the 


A  CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES.  89 

starlight,  Galilee  has  no  boundaries  but  the  broad  compass  of 
the  heavens,  and  is  a  theatre  meet  for  great  events ;  meet  for 
the  birth  of  a  religion  able  to  save  the  world ;  and  meet  for 
the  stately  figure  appointed  to  stand  upon  its  stage  and  pro- 
claim high  decrees. — Pages  492,  499-502,  and  513,  ^^The  In- 
nocents Abroad^  or' the  New  Pilgrims^  Progress ^^  by  Mark 
Twain — Samuel  L.  Clemens. 


CHARLES  CARLETON  COFFIN, 

Journalist  (War  Correspondent),  Popular  Lecturer.     (1823-1896.) 

ACCEPT  the  Bible  because  it  contains,  immeasurably 
beyond  all  other  books,  moral  precepts  which  are  the 
rules  of  all  right  conduct ;  because  it  is  the  founda- 
tion of  all  just  government ;  because  it  tells  the  truth 
about  men;  because  its  spiritual  teachings  satisfy  the  long- 
ings of  my  heart,  giving  me  joy,  peace,  comfort,  rest,  and 
hope  of  a  better  and  larger  life  beyond  the  present. 

I  believe  in  Jesus  Christ  as  my  Saviour,  Redeemer,  Brother, 
and  best  Friend.  All  history  centers  around  Him.  He  is 
the  life  and  the  light  of  the  world — the  One  absolutely  per- 
fect human  being  of  all  time — stainless  and  immaculate  in 
everything.  His  teachings,  if  followed,  will  settle  all  dis- 
putes between  man  and  man — between  individuals  and 
nations  alike;  will  banish  misery  and  woe,  and  make  the 
world  a  paradise  of  happiness.  I  accept  Him  for  what  He 
claimed  to  be — the  Son  of  God  and  the  Son  of  Man. 

(y^vU^   (LcuLleJo^  Ccftf^^^ 

SIR  GEORGE  HAYTER  CHUBB. 

British  Philanthropist. 

HE  welfare  of  the  country  depends  on  our  adhesion 
to  the  principles  of  the  Divine  Book.  I  venture 
to  affirm  that  no  child  is  properly  educated  who  is 
not  instructed  in  the  common  faith  of  Christianity. 
As  the  old  Duke  of  Wellington  said,  "Educate  men  with- 
out religion  and  you  make  them  but  clever  devils. '^ — From 
an  Address  before  the  British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society^ 
London^  1894. 


90  A   CLOUD    OK   WITNESSES.  • 

LORD  CHICHESTER, 

British  Statesman ;  President  Church  Missionary  Society, 

"vVY;     O  I834-I886.        (1806-I886.) 

^EASE  not  to  pray  for  the  spread  of  God's  truth  in  the 
S^  name  of  our  only  Lord  and  Saviour.  .  .'  .  May 
'-if^  our  gracious  Queen  reflect  the  beams  of  the  Sun  of 
Righteousness!  Thus  shall  the  record  of  her  reign 
be  ascribed  to  the  Son  of  God,  whose  trophies  shall  consist, 
not  of  captive  kings,  but  of  ransomed  slaves  delivered  from 
the  bondage  of  sin.  —  Delivered  in  1837;  see  Church  Mis- 
sionary Intelligencer^  1897. 


STEPHEN  GROVER  CLEVELAND, 

Twenty-second   President  of  the  United  States. 

^HE  citizen  is  a  better  business  man  if  he  is  a  Christian 
gentleman,  and,  surely,  business  is  not  the  less  pros- 
perous and  successful  if  conducted  on  Christian  prin- 
ciples. .  .  .  All  must  admit  that  the  reception 
of  the  teachings  of  Christ  results  in  the  purest  patriotism,  in 
the  most  scrupulous  fidelity  to  public  trust  and  in  the  best 
type  of  citizenship.  Those  who  manage  the  affairs  of  gov- 
ernment are  by  this  means  reminded  that  the  law  of  God 
demands  that  they  should  be  courageously  true  to  the  inter- 
ests of  the  people,  and  that  the  Ruler  of  the  Universe  will 
require  of  them  a  strict  account  of  their  stewardship.  . 
— Pages  182  and  183,  '*  The  Writings  and  Speeches  of  Grover 
Cleveland^'' ^  edited  by  George  F.  Parker, 


DAVID  HENRY  COCHRAN, 

President  of  Polytechnic  Institute. 

jT-^    ESUS  Christ  is  the  light  of  the  world,  and  the  Saviour 
vi     of  all  who  may  believe  in   Him ;    the  Bible  is  the 
S^  chart  of  civilization,    the    Divine   Book  for  human 
needs,  and  able  to  make  men  wise  unto  salvation. 


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A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  9I 

SIR  EDWARD  COKE, 

Lord  Chief-Justice  of  England.     (1549-1633.) 

,HY  kingdom  come,  Thy  will  be  done. — Last  words. 
And  yet,  by  the  Providence  of  Almighty  God, 
though  I  was  in  the  greatest  danger,  yet  I  had  not 
the  least  hurt  at  all — nay,  no  hurt  at  all.  For  Al- 
mighty God  saith  by  His  prophet  David,  "  The  angel  of 
the  Lord  tarrieth  round  about  them  that  fear  Him,  and  de- 
livereth  them" — Et  nomen  Domini  benedictum  (the  name  of 
the  Ivord  is  blessed),  for  it  was  His  work. — Memorandum^  3^ 
of  May^  1632.  See  Volume  11^  of  ''^Distinguished  Men  of 
Mode?'n  Times ^^''  published  by  Charles  Knight. 


ALFRED  HOLT  COLQUITT, 

United    States  Senator.     (1824-1894.) 

LIKE  to  hear  learned  sermons  and  magnificent  dis- 
courses— appeals  purely  to  the  intellect — abstract  and 
abstruse  ideas,  and  all  that.  But  looking  at  the 
masses  of  mankind,  and  reviewing  from  the  standpoint 
which  I  occupy,  it  is  clear  to  me  that  there  is  a  mission  given 
to  every  lover  of  Christ  to  stand  forth  as  the  propagator  of 
that  religion  which  tempers  the  politics  and  statesmanship 
of  this  country. — Remarks  at  the  Evangelical  Alliance^ 
Washington^  December  7,  1887. 


HARTLEY  COLERIDGE, 

British  Poet.      (1796-1849.) 

'HE  most  childish  sin  which  men  can  do 
Is  yet  a  sin  which  Jesus  never  did, 
When  Jesus  was  a  child,  and  yet  a  sin 
For  which,  in  lowly  pain.  He  lived  and  died; 
And  for  the  bravest  sin  that  e're  was  praised 
The  King  Eternal  wore  the  crown  of  thorns. 


92  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

SAMUEL  TAYLOR  COLERIDGE, 

English  Poet  and  Metaphysician.     (1772- 1834.) 

^S  it  fitting  to  run  Jesus 
Christ  in  a  silly  par- 
allel with  Socrates — 
the  Being  whom 
thousands  of  millions  of 
intellectual  creatures,  of 
whom  I  am  a  humble  unit, 
take  to  be  their  Redeemer 
— with  an  Athenian  phi- 
losopher, of  whom  we  know 
nothing  except  his  glorifica- 
tion in  Plato  and  Socrates? 
— ^''Specimen  of  Table- Talk 
ofSaTfbuel  Taylor  Coleridge!' ' 
But,  above  all  things,  I  entreat  you,  my  dear  Colson,  to  pre- 
serve your  faith  in  Christ.  It  is  my  wealth  in  poverty,  my 
joy  in  sorrow,  my  peace  amid  tumult.  For  all  the  evil  I 
have  committed,  I  have  found  it  to  be  so.  I  can  smile  with 
pity  at  the  infidel  whose  vanity  makes  him  dream  that  I 
should  barter  such  a  blessing  for  the  few  subtleties  from  the 
school  of  the  cold-blooded  sophists. — 6'.  T.  Coleridge  iii  auto- 
graph letter  iji  Wellesley  College  library. 

I  receive,  with  full  and  grateful  faith,  the  assurance  of 
Revelation,  that  the  Word,  which  is  from  eternity  with  God, 
and  is  God,  assumed  human  nature,  in  order  to  redeem  me 
and  all  mankind  from  our  connate  corruption.  I  believe 
that  the  assumption  of  humanity  by  the  Son  of  God  was 
revealed  to  us  by  the  Word  made  flesh,  and  manifested  to  us 
in  Jesus  Christ,  and  that  His  miraculous  birth.  His  agony, 
His  crucifixion,  resurrection,  and  ascension  were  all  both 
symbols  of  redemption  and  necessary  parts  of  that  awful 
process. — Page  194,  ''^Studies  hi  Poetry  and  Philosophy^^^  by 
J.  C.  Shairp^  Principal  of  the  United  Colleges  of  St.  Salva- 
dor and  St.  Leonard. 


A  CLOUD  OF  WITNESSES.  93 

SAMUEL  COLGATE, 

Manufacturer  and  Philanthropist. 

'HE  only  spiritual  light  in  the  worid  comes  through 
Jesus  Christ  and  the  inspired  Book;  redemption  and 
forgiveness  of  sin  alone  through  Christ.  Without  His 
presence  and  the  teachings  of  the  Bible  we  would  be 
enshrouded  in  moral  darkness  and  despair.  The  condition 
of  those  nations  without  a  Christ,  contrasted  with  those  where. 
Christ  is  accepted,  reveals  so  marked  a  difference  that  no 
arguments  are  needed.  It  is  an  object-lesson  so  plain  that 
it  can  be  seen  and  understood  by  all.  May  "  the  earth  be 
full  of  the  knowledge  of  the  Lord,  as  the  waters  cover  the 
sea."  . 


SCHUYLER  COLFAX, 

Congressman,  Speaker  of  the  Thirty-eighth,  Thirty-ninth,  and  Fortietlx 
^>        ^  Congresses.     { 1823-1885.) 


AN  derives  his  greatest  happiness  not  by  that 
PL  which  he  does  for  himself,  but  by  what  he  accom- 
^^^I^^  plishes  for  others.  This  is  a  sad  world  at  best — a 
world  of  sorrow,  of  suffering,  of  injustice,  and  fal- 
sification ;  men  stab  those  whom  they  hate  with  the  stiletto- 
of  slander,  but  it  is  for  the  followers  of  our  Lord  to  improve 
it,  and  to  make  it  more  as  Christ  would  have  it.  The  most 
precious  crown  of  fame  that  a  human  being  can  ask  is  to 
kneel  at  the  bar  of  God  and  hear  the  beautiful  words, 
''Well  done,  good  and  faithful  servant." 

Just  fifty  years  ago  this  fall,  in  a  large  city  by  the  sea- 
shore, nearly  a  thousand  miles  from  here,  a  lady,  whose 
husband  was  dead,  took  her  little  boy  by  the  hand,  and '  led 
him  to  the  Sabbath-school.  For  thirty  years  afterwards  he 
was  a  scholar  or  a  teacher  of  the  Sabbath-school,  and  he  has 


94  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

never  forgotten  those  instructions  of  youth.  The  lady  who 
took  her  little  boy  to  that  Sunday-school  is  now  in  a  hap- 
pier land,  but  the  boy  is  still  living.  That  lady  was  my  be- 
loved mother,  who  is  with  her  Father  and  Saviour  in  heaven, 
and  that  little  boy  was  myself.  To-day  I  come  to  this  school 
with  my  little  boy,  and  his  mother  with  us,  that  we  may 
place  his  imperfect  steps  in  the  path  in  which  my  mother 
placed  my  little  feet  half  a  century  ago. — Pages  453  and  20, 
*'''Life  of  Schuyler  Colfax^^^  by  O.J.  Ho  Ulster. 


GEORGE  COMBE, 

oJNy^  Scottish   Phrenologist.     (1788-1858.) 

CT 


PPOSITION  between  science  and  Revelation  I  sin- 
cerely believe  to  be  impossible,  when  the  facts  in 
^^  nature  are  correctly  observed,  and  Divine  truth  is 
correctly  interpreted.  I  regard  the  Scriptures  as  being 
a  system  of  Divine  wisdom,  in  harmony  with  natural  truth. 
The  moment  a  man  is  penetrated  by  the  love  of 
God  in  Christ  his  moral  and  religious  affections  become  far 
stronger  and  more  elevated. — Pages  349,  351  of  the  ^'Consti- 
tution of  Man^  Considered  in  Relation  to  External  Objects., '  * 
by  George  Combe. 

ROBERT  NEEDHAM  GUST, 

British  Oriental  Linguist. 

HO  can  estimate  the  value  of  a  soul  saved — saved 
perhaps  by  a  single  verse  in  the  millions  of  copies 
issued  annually ;  saved  through  the  atonement  of 
Christ.  The  Bible  is  the  great  arsenal  for  forging 
bloodless,  silent,  innocent  weapons,  which,  at  the  same  time, 
have  found  themselves  to  be  sharp-cutting,  outspoken,  and 
invincible.  If  the  mouth  of  the  preacher  has  converted  its 
thousands,  the  voiceless  volume  has  saved  its  tens  of  thou- 
sands.— Bible  Society  Monthly  Reporter^  September.,  1892. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  95 

CHRISTOPHER  COLUMBUS, 

Qi^.-^        Discoverer  of  America,  and  Admiral.     (1436-1506.) 


o 


RAISE    be    to  the 


_^    eternal  God,  our 


Lord,  who  gives  to 

all  those  who  walk 
in  His  ways  victory^  over 
all  things  which  seem  im- 
possible; of  which  this  is 
signally  one,  for,  although 
others  have  spoken  or  writ- 
ten concerning  these  coun- 
tries, it  was  all  conjecture, 
as  no  one  could  say  that  he 
had  seen  them — it  amounting  only  to  this,  that  those  wha 
heard  listened  the  more,  and  regarded  the  matter  rather  as  a 
fable  than  anything  else.  But  our  Redeemer  has  granted 
this  victory  to  our  illustrious  King  and  Queen  and  their 
kingdoms,  which  have  acquired  great  fame  by  an  event  of 
such  high  importance,  in  which  all  Christendom  ought  to 
rejoice,  and  which  it  ought  to  celebrate  with  great  festivals 
and  the  offering  of  solemn  thanks  to  the  Holy  Trinity  with 
many  sincere  prayers,  both  for  the  great  exaltation  which 
may  accrue  to  them  in  turning  so  many  nations  to  our  holy 
faith,  and  also  for  the  temporal  benefits  which  will  bring 
great  refreshment  and  gain,  not  only  to  Spain,  but  to  all 
Christians. 

Done  on  board  the  Caravel,  off  the  Canary  Islands,  on  the 
fifteenth   day  of   February,   fourteen    hundred    and    ninety- 
three.         At  your  orders,  The  Admiral." 
— Page  321,  ^''Christopher  Columbus  and  his  Monument ^^  com" 
piled  by  J.  M.  Dickey. 


Jeffrey,  Francis,  Critic  and  Essayist,  late  Editor  of 
** Edinburgh  Review''  (^ 77 3-1850) :  I  have  given  up  all  my 
literary  efforts  and  now  I  content  myself  with  taking  a  spell 
at  St.  John,  or  some  of  the  other  Gospels.  The  pure  Word 
of  God  is  now  my  only  solace. 


96  A   CI.OUD    OF    WiTNESSEvS. 

JOSIAS  PARSONS  COOKE, 

Professor  of  Chemistry  and  Mineralogy 
in    Harvard   College. 

^>^CIENCE,  both  in  its  methods  and  its  results,  ad- 
dresses the  understanding  exclusively ;  Christianity 
appeals  chiefly  to  the  heart.  Science  aims  to  in- 
struct;  Christianity  aims  to  persuade.  Science  is 
attained  by  study,  and  is  possible  only  for  the  few;  Chris- 
tianity is  a  free  gift  from  God  "to  all  men  who  will  receive  His 
Son.  The  results  of  science  are  fully  comprehended,  and 
can  be  expressed  in  definite  terms.  The  forms  of  science 
are  rapidly  changing ;  the  types  and  symbols  of  Christianity 
are  permanent.  ...  I  believe  the  Bible  inspired,  from 
the  grand  epic  of  Creation  with  which  it  opens,  to  the  glori- 
ous vision  of  the  New  Jerusalem  at  its  close. — Pages  342, 
344,  ^''Religion  and  Chemistry ^^  by  Josias  P.  Cooke. 


ANTHONY  COMSTOCK, 

Reformer;  Secretary  of  the  Society  for  the  Suppression 
of  Vice. 

HRIST  is  glorious!  As  the  Son  of  God  and  Saviour 
of  the  world,  to  Him  every  knee  shall  bow  and  every 
tongue  shout  for  joy.  I  have  always  found  the  prom- 
ises of  the  Divine  Word  *'Yea  and  Amen." 


vW^jX.<k/^>^ 


FRANCESCO  CRISPI, 

Late  Prime  Minister  of  Italy,  1887-1891,  1893-1896. 
CW  )9  (1819-1901  ) 

0\HRISTIANITY  is  a  Divine  institution.     It  is  not  de- 
^_j  pendent  on  earthly  weapons  for  its  existence.     The 
>^-^  religion  of  Christ  is  able  to  subdue  the  world  with- 
out the  aid  of  temporal  arms.     .     .     .     The  Gospel, 
as  we  believe  it,  is  true;  its  mission  is  to  console  us  with  the 
hope  of  everlasting  life. — See  Oration  pronounced  at  the  Un- 
Tjei ling  of  Garibaldi^ s  Statue,  Rome^  December  20,  1895. 

Note. — To  a  clergyman  who  desired  to  administer  the  Lord's  Supper  to 
Crispi  at  his  death,  he  replied:  **It  is  a  matter  between  myself  and  Christ." 


\  B  R  A  P 
or  THE 

UNIVERSIT 

OF 

.IFOR* 


PRESIDENTS 

OF 

UNIVERSITIES. 

Cyrus  Northrop, 

James  B.  Angell, 

Page  }42. 

Page  14. 

iACOB   B.   SCHURMAN 

William  R.  Harper, 

Page  400. 

Page  214. 

Henry  W.  Rogers, 

Joseph  Swain, 

Page  384. 

Page  4S8. 

A    CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  97 

PIERRE  CORNEILLE, 

.  French  Dramatic  Poet.     (1606-1684.) 

ADORE  one  God,  Maker  of  the  Universe,  under  whom 
tremble  the  sky,  earth,  and  Hell ;  a  God  who  loved  us 
with  an  everlasting  love,  and  who  died  an  ignominious 
death  for  us.  Oh,  happy  is  the  man  with  a  brilliant 
mind  and  heart,  who  can  appreciate  what  it  is  to  love  Jesus 
Christ.  —  Volume  /,  '' Poleucete^^^  page  72,  by  P.  Didot, 


VICTOR  COUSIN, 


ei 


,^^^^         French  Metaphysician  and  Philosopher.     ( 1792-1867.) 

J^  ^IvATO  knew  this  love  of  God  well,  and  expressed  it 

^  Q    in  those  great  words,    "Let  us   say  that  the  cause 

^  yv   which  led  the  supreme  Ordainer  to  produce  and  com- 

^         pose  this  universe  is,  that  He  was  good ;  and  he  who 

is  good  has  no  species  of  envy."     Christianity  went  further: 

according  to  the  Divine  doctrine,  God  so  loved  men  that  He 

gave  them  His  only  begotten  Son. 

What,  in  fact,  would  have  been  the  joy  of  a  Socrates  and  a 
Plato  if  they  had  found  the  human  race  in  the  arms  of  Chris- 
tianity !  How  happy  would  have  been  Plato — who  was  evi- 
dently embarrassed  between  his  beautiful  doctrines  and  the 
religion  of  his  time,  who  managed  so  carefully  with  that 
religion  even  when  he  avoided  it,  who  was  forced  to  take 
from  it  the  best  part  in  order  to  aid  a  favorable  interpretation 
of  his  doctrine^have  been  if  he  had  had  to  do  with  a  relig- 
ion which  presented  to  man,  as  at  once  its  author  and  model, 
the  sublime  and  mild  Crucified,  of  whom  he  had  an  extraor- 
dinary presentment,  whom  he  almost  described  in  the  person 
of  a  just  man  dying  on  the  Cross. — Pages  330,  343,  ^''Lectures 
07i  the  True^  Beaut  if  id ^  aud  the  Good^^  by  Victor  Cousin, 


98 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 


S  COPERNICUS, 

sian  Astronomer.     (1473-1543.) 


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OPERNICUS  had  a  pro- 
found  reverence  for  the 
Scriptures.  He  regarded 
the  Word  of  God  able  to 
make  us  wise  unto  salvation,  and 
none  of  his  discoveries  pertaining 
to  the  laws  of  nature  shook  for 
one  moment  his  confidence  in  the 
revelation  of  the  Gospel.  Early 
does  he  appear  to  distinguish  be- 
tween  the  teaching  of  the  Divine 
oracles  as  to  the  redemption  of 
the  world  by  Jesus  Christ,  and  those  passages  which  relate 
to  the  physical  facts  and  appearances  to  popular  apprehen- 
sion.— "■  Worthies  of  Science^''''  by  the  American^  Tract  Society. 


THOMAS  McINTYRE  COOLEY, 

Jurist,  and  Lecturer  on  Constitutional  Law,  University  of 
Michigan.      {1823-1898.) 

REGARD  Jesus  of  Nazareth  as  having  done  more  to 
advance  tivilization,  and  to  influence  beneficially  the 
history  of  the  world,  than  has  any  other  historic 
character. 

The  Bible  I  have  been  accustomed  to  look  upon  not  as 
one  Book  but  as  many.  The  teachings  of  Jesus  and  His 
disciples,  as  given  in  the  New  Testament,  I  think  constitute 
a  Book  more  important  to  the  world  and  more  influential  in 
reforming  and  improving  the  condition  of  mankind  than 
any  other.  . 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  99 

JOHN  MERLE  COULTER, 

President  of  Lake  Forest  University. 

HAVE  always  recognized  in  Jesus  Christ  the  most 
powerful  force  that  has  ever  been  introduced  into  the 
world  of  mankind.  I  have  held  Him  up  to  my  stu- 
dents as  the  model  Man  and  only  Saviour,  and  His 
doctrines  as  the  clearest  and  most  searching  statements  of 
ethical  and  Divine  principles  ever  made.  There  has  been 
none  to  stand  beside  Him  in  the  world's  history,  and  the  life 
that  He  points  out  commends  itself  to  us  as  the  only  life 
worth  living. 


^-^^^  ^^.    Q^-r.<jaa:;r _ 


ANTHONY  ASHLEY  COOPER, 

Seventh  Earl  of  Shaftesbury;  English  Statesman  and 
Philanthropist.      (1801-1885.) 

^HE  sole,  the  sovereign  remedy  is  to  do  what  we  can 
to  evangelize  the  people  by  preaching  on  every  oc- 
casion and  in  every  place,  in  the  grandest  cathedral 
and  at  the  corners  of  the  streets,  in  the  royal  palaces 
and  in  the  black  slums,  Christ  to  the  people;  ''to  know 
nothing  among  men  save  Jesus  Christ  and  Him  crucified." 
I  do  believe  that  preaching  Christ  is  still  the  power  of  God 
unto  salvation. 

We  have  heard  of  one  literary  gentleman  who  said  that 
the  Bible  was  effete.  Let  us  set  up  against  him  a  man,  I  am 
quite  sure  his  equal  in  literary  power  and  intellectual  ability — 
Lord  Macaulay.  I  was  in  the  House  of  Commons  with  Lord 
Macaulay,  and  heard  him  use  these  very  words:  "He  who 
speaks  or  writes  a  syllable  against  Christianity  is  guilty  of 
high  treason  against  the  civilization  of  mankind."  .  .  . 
But  the  Bible  will  overthrow  all  that;  and  though  for  a  time 
their  works  may  succeed,    though  they  may  disturb  many 


lOO  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

unstable  hearts,  yet  a  large  mass  of  the  population  is  far  more 
reverential,  far  more  inclined  to  receive  the  truth  than  at  any 
former  period,  and  out  of  them  will  be  gathered  many  thou- 
sands and  many  hundreds  of  thousands  to  the  Church  of 
Christ  who,  I  have  no  doubt,  at  the  great  day  will  say : 
''We  were  rescued,  and  rescued  solely  by  the  great  Word  of 
God,  which  is  called  effete  in  the  same  way  as  God  Himself 
is  effete — the  same  yesterday,  to-day,  and  forever." — An  ad- 
dress delivered  at  the  eightieth  anniversaiy  ineeting  of  the 
British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society^  London^  June ^  1884. 


WILLIAM  COWPER, 

English  Poet.     (1731-1800.) 


iLESSED  be  God,  even  the  God  who  is  to  become  my 
salvation ;  the  hail  of  affliction  and  rebuke  for  sin  has 
swept  away  the  refuge  of  lies.  It  pleased  the  Al- 
mighty in  great  mercy  to  set  all  my  misdeeds  before 
me.  At  length,  the  storm  being  past,  a  quiet  and  peaceful 
serenity  of  soul  succeeded,  such  as  ever  attends  the  gift  of 
lively  faith  in  the  all-sufflcient  atonement,  and  the  sweet 
sense  of  mercy  and  pardon  purchased  by  the  blood  of  Christ. 
I  have  been  intimate  myself  with  a  man  of  fine  taste,  who 
has  confessed  to  me  that,  though  he  could  not  subscribe  to 
the  truths  of  Christianity  itself,  yet  he  never  could  read  St. 
Luke's  account  of  our  Saviour's  appearance  to  the  two  dis- 
ciples going  to  Emmaus  without  being  wonderfully  affected 
by  it;  and  he  thought  that  if  the  stamp  of  Divinity  was 
anywhere  to  be  found  in  the  Scriptures,  it  was  strongly 
marked  and  visibly  impressed  upon  that  passage.  If  these 
men,  whose  hearts  were  chilled  with  the  darkness  of  infidel- 
ity, could  find  such  charms  in  the  mere  style  of  the  Scrip- 
tures, what  must  they  find  there  whose  eye  penetrates  deeper 
than  the  letter,  and  who  firmly  believe  themselves  interested 
in  all  the  invaluable  privileges  of  the  Gospel. — Pages  187 
and  171,  Volume  11^  '•'•The  Life  and  Works  of  William  Cow- 
per^''  by  Robert  Southey. 


A    CLOUD   OF    WITNKSSKS. 

SAMUEL  SULLIVAN  COX, 

Congressman,  Diplomat,  and   Popular  Speaker.      (1824-1889.) 


lOI 


From  Authors'  Portrsit  Catalojrue. 


Copyright,  1892,  by  Harper  &  Brothers. 


BEIvIEVE  in  the  religion  which  was  taught  and  ex- 
emplified in  the  life  of  the  Nazarene,  and  I  never  fail 
to  bear  testimony  to  the  ennobling  and  purifying  in- 
fluence of  the  Christian  religion. 
There  was  a  poignancy  in  my  heart  when  I  saw  the  old 
church,  where  I  so  often  worshiped,  razed  to  the  ground. 
Was  it  not  there  I  attended  my  first  Sunday-school  ?  There 
it  was  that  I  learned  my  Bible  verses,  and  received  my  red 
and  blue .  tickets  for  proficiency.  There  it  was  that  I  ac- 
complished the  memorable  task  of  reciting  all  of  St.  Paul  to 
the  Romans.  .  .  .  Those  early  memories  were  cut  in 
durable  stone.  Tarnished  by  w^orldliness,  dusted  with  the  ac- 
tivities of  life,  they  have   pursued  me   through  the  various 


I02  A   CIvOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

vicissitudes  of  professional,  literary,  and  political  life.  They 
became  the  nucleus  of  studies  in  college ;  the  very  coat  of 
mail  in  the  struggles  against  selfishness  and  scepticism;  in 
fine,  they  prefigured  and  preordained  my  choice  of  spiritual 
belief  against  the  delusive  sophistries  of  new  philosophies 
and  mere  material  science.  They  have  enabled  me,  in  fol- 
lowing and  studying  the  physical  advancement  of  the  past 
century,  to  perceive  in  all  the  atoms,  forms,  and  forces  of 
nature  and  the  phenomena  of  mind,  the  truth  and  benignity 
of  the  great  scheme  of  human  redemption,  which  is  founded 
on  the  veracity  .of  Christ,  and  becomes,  with  lapsing  years, 
more  beautiful  with  the  white  radiance  of  an  ennobling  spir- 
ituality.— See  Memorial  Addresses  published  by  the  United 
States  Congress^  1890. 


ABRAHAM  COWLEY, 

English  Poet.     (1618-1667.) 

I'LL  sing  the  searchless  depths  of  the  compassion  divine, 
The  depths  un  fathomed  yet 
By  reason's  plummet,  and  too  short  the  line ! 
How  the  eternal  Father  did  bestow 
His  own  eternal  Son  as  ransom  for  His  foe. 
I'll  sing  aloud  that  all  the  world  may  hear 
The  triumph  of  the  buried  Conqueror ; 
How  hell  was  by  its  prisoner  captive  led. 
And  the  great  slayer.  Death,  slain  by  the  dead. 


FRANCIS  MARION  COCKRELL, 

United  States  Senator  since  1875. 

.HRISTIANITY  is  a  reality,  not  an  appearance.  Were 
it  a  myth  devised  by  cunning  impostors,  it  would  have 
come  to  naught  before  this.  It  has  done  more  to 
fraternize  the  races  than  all  human  systems  of  religion 
together.  The  Bible  is  supreme  over  all  books.  Beside  it 
there  is  none  other.  Its  Divine  truths  meet  the  wants  of  a 
world-wide  hun^anity.         J^  J^  A^^^^/c^-^ 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  IO3 

JOHN  WILSON  CROKER, 

British  Statesman  and  Author;    Secretary  to  the  Admiralty. 

G    ^  1809-1830.       (1780-1857.) 

RANT,  we  beseech  Thee,  that  the  death  of  our  dear 
child  may  awaken  us,  his  unhappy  parents,  to  the 
prospect  of  eternal  life,  .  .  .  and  we,  with  all  our 
souls,  beseech  Thee,  O  merciful  God!  to  strengthen 
our  good  intentions,  to  control  our  worldly  propensities,  to 
forgive  our  past  offenses,  and  by  Thy  grace  so  to  regulate 
our  lives  in  this  perishable  world  that  we  may  indulge  the 
blessed  hope  of  meeting  our  beloved  child  where  pain  and 
death  can  not  come,  and  where  love  endureth  forever!  For 
which  we  hope  and  pray  through  the  mediation  of  our  Sav- 
iour, Jesus  Christ.,  Amen. — Pa£-e  559,  Volume  11^  '"''Corre- 
spondence and  Diaries  of  the  late  Right  Honorable  John 
Wilson  Croker^^^  edited  by  Louis  J.  Jenniiigs. 


JOHN  PRICE  CROZER, 

Manufacturer  and  Philanthropist.     (1793- 1866.) 

HAVE  much  reason  to  fear  that  a  fine  house  and  large 
possessions  may  have  retarded  my  growth  in  the 
Divine  life,  and  kept  me  barren  and  unfruitful.  Oh, 
that  I  were  under  the  law  of  Christ;  more  spiritually- 
minded,  and  less  the  servant  of  sin.  Worldly-mindedness, 
alas !  keeps  down  Christian  graces,  and  blunts  the  finer  facul- 
ties of  the  soul.  None  but  those  who  have  been  deeply  en- 
gaged in  business  know  how  hard  it  is  to  keep  the  mind  per- 
fectly balanced  so  as  to  avoid  yielding  to  the  absorbing  con- 
cerns of  the  world.  Well  did  our  Saviour  caution  us  against 
the  deceitfulness  of  riches,  and  declared  how  hardly  they  who 
have  them  can  enter  into  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven. — ^''Daity 
Extracts ^''^  quoted  by  Enoch  Perrin^  in  an  address  at  Buc knell 
University^  February  22,  1893,  on  ''John  P,  Crozer  as  a  Busi- 
ness Many 


i:o4 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 


OLIVER  CROMWELL, 

Lord-Protector  of  the  English  Commonwealth.     (1599-1658.) 


;HIS    Scripture    (Phi- 

lippians4:  11- 13)  did 

once    save    my    life, 

when  my  eldest  son, 
Oliver,  died — which  went  as 
a  dagger  to  my  heart — in- 
deed it  did.  It  is  true,  Paul, 
you  have  learned  this,  and 
attained  to  that  measure  of 
grace  ;  but  what  shall  I  do? 
...  He  that  was  Paul's 
Christ  is  my  Christ  too. — 
Page  221,  Chapter  17, 
^''Hood's  Cro7nwelV^ 

Ivord,  though  wretched  and  miserable,  I  am  in  covenant 
with  Thee  through  grace,  and  I  will  come  urito  Thee  for  my 
people.  .  .  .  Make  the  name  of  Christ  glorious  in  the 
world.  Teach  those  who  look  too  much  on  Thy  instruments 
to  depend  on  Thyself  more.  Pardon  such  as  desire  to  trample 
on  the  dust  of  a  poor  worm,  for  they  are  Thine  too,  and  par- 
don the  folly  of  this  short  prayer,  for  Jesus  Christ,  His  sake. 
Page  223,  Chapter  17,  ^^Hood^s  CromwelV ;  also  Chapter  13, 
Volume  I V^  page  215,  ''KnighVs  England ^ 


and 


EDWARD  CROSSLEY, 

Member  of  Parliament. 

HE  Divine  Being  Himself  was  the  first  great  Mission- 
ary of  this  world,  when  He  walked  and  talked  with 
Adam  and  Eve  in   the  Garden  of   Paradise;  and  we 
know  that  He  never  left  this  world  without  a  witness, 
that  the  missionary  work  of    God  culminated   in  the 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  IO5 

advent  of  our  Lord  and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ.  The  work, 
instead  of  coming  to  an  end  with  that  advent,  really  and 
fully  began,  for  Christ  makes  every  one  of  His  followers  into 
a  missionary. — From  a  Speech  at  Exeter  Hall,  May  12,  iSS^i* 
on  taking  the  Chair  at  the  ninety -second  anniversary  of  the 
London  Missionary  Society. 


JOHN  SINGLETON  COPLEY, 

Painter.    (1735-1815.) 

,HE  end  is  approaching;  I  want  to  die  as  I  have  tried 
to  live— with  a  full  faith  in  the  Christian  religion. 
I  desire  to  express  my  firm  trust  m  God  through  the 
merits  of  my  Redeemer. — See  Life  of  fohn  Singleton 

Copley^  by  his  Granddaughter,    Scribner^s  Monthly^  Marchy, 

1881.  

JOHN  DUKE  COLERIDGE, 

Lord  Chief  Justice  of  England.     (1820-1894.) 
A  PRAYER. 

•  ENDING  before  Thee,  let  our  hymn  go  upwards; 
Bright  as  the  sunshine  breaking  from  the  darkness'. 
Thee  we  implore  to  guard  us  on  our  journey, 
Lord  God  Almighty. 
Glory  to  Thee,  O  Father  Everlasting, 
Glory  to  Thee,  O  Son  and  Holy  Spirit, 
One  in  Three  Persons,  Infinite,  Unchanging, 
Lord  God  Almighty. 

COMTE  CASSINI, 

Russian  Embassador  to  the  United  States. 

BEIylKVE  in  the  Divinity  of  Christ.  I  believe  in 
Christianity  and  its  Book. 


I06  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

ALEXANDER  CRUDEN, 

Scottish  Author  of  "A  Complete  Concordance  to  the  Holy 
Scriptures."     (1701-1770.) 

.  LL  other  books  are  of  little  importance  in  comparison 
with  the  Holy  Scriptures,  which   are    a  revelation 


m 


^t  (o)^  from  God,  and  are  given  as  the  only  rule  of  faith 
and  practice.  If  the  kings  of  Israel  were  required 
not  only  "to  read  the  law  of  Moses  all  the  days  of  their  life, 
but  also  to  write  out  a  copy  of  it  with  their  own  hand,  that 
they  might  learn  to  fear  the  Lord  their  God,"  it  may  be  rea- 
sonably expected  that  Christian  Princes  should  make  the 
glorious  Gospel  of  our  Lord  and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ 
their  daily  study. — A  paragraph  from  the  Dedication  of  his 
Concordance  to  the  King.  See  first  pages  of  Crtiden's  Con- 
cor  dance. 

GEORGE  M.  CURTIS, 

Lawyer. 

HAVE  not  the  slightest  doubt  of  the  divinity  of  Jesus 
Christ,  and  the  inspiration  of  the  Holy  Scriptures. 
Christianity  has  educated  and  civilized  the  world. 
Salvation  bursting  from  the  sepulchre  of  the  Lord 
westward  has  belted  the  earth,  and  it  is  now  returning  to  the 
cradle  of  its  birth.  Napoleon  Bonaparte  and  Daniel  Web- 
ster, two  of  the  greatest  minds  since  the  morning  of  time, 
have  declared  their  full  faith  in  the  Redeemer.  Bonaparte 
affirmed  at  St.  Helena:  ^'I  say  to  you,  Jesus  Christ  was  Jiot 
a  man — He  was  God !  "  Webster  declared  :  ''  No  mortal 
ever  could  have  delivered  the  Sermon  on  the  Mount ! "  Who 
desires  rnore  testimony  than  the  evidence  of  these  great 
mortals? 


^'/^/.  6^/6'- 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  lOJ 

RICHARD  CUMBERLAND, 

ETiglish  Dramatist  and  Miscellaneous  W^riter.     (1732-1811.) 

HRIST  having  performed  His  miracles  openly,  aiicf 
before  so  many  witnesses,  it  is  not  found  that  the' 
matter  of  fact  was  ever  questioned  by  any  who  lived/ 
in  that  age ;  on  the  contrary,  we  see  it  was  acknowl- 
edged by  His  most  vigilant  enemies — the  Pharisees ;  they 
did  not  deny  the  miracle;  so  weak  a  subterfuge  against  the 
evidence  of  their  own  sense  probably  satisfied  neither  them- 
selves nor  others ;  if  it  had,  this  accusation  of  sorcery  (being 
capital  by  the  law,  and  also  by  that  of  the  Romans)  would  have 
been  heard  of,  when  they  were  so  much  to  seek,  for  crimes^ 
wherewith  to  charge  Him  on  His  trial ;  if  any  man  shall  ob- 
ject that  this  is  arguing  out  of  the  Gospels  in  favor  of  the 
Gospels.  I  contend  that  this  matter  of  fact  does  not  rest 
solely  on  Gospel  evidence  but  also  upon  collateral  histori-^ 
cal  proof;  for  this  very  argument  of  the  Pharisees,  and  this 
only,  is  made  use  by  those  Jews  in  whom  Celsus  brings  in: 
arguing  against  the  Christian  religion ;  and  those  Jews,  on: 
this  very  account,  rank  Christ  with  Pythagoras;  and  I  chal- 
lenge the  cavillers  against  Christ's  miracles  to  controvert 
what  is  thus  asserted,  or  to  produce  any  other  argument  of 
Jewish  origin,  except  this  ascribed  to  the  Pharisees  by  the 
Gospel,  either  from  Celsus,  as  above  mentioned,  or  any  other 
writer. — From  "  The  Miracles  of  Christ ^^^  itt  Observer^  No, 
10. 


THE  RIGHT  HONORABLE  JOHN  PHILPOT 

CURRAN, 

Irish  Orator  and    Statesman.     (1750-1817.) 

WILL  never  hear  of  any  attempt  to  injure  their  le- 
gal rights.     I  love   their  religion ;   there  is  only  one 
religion  under  heaven   which  I  love  more  than  the 
Protestant,  but  I  confess  there  is  one — the  Christian 
religion. 


Io8  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

What  is  the  law  of  this  country  ?  If  the  witness  does 
not  believe  in  God,  or  a  future  state,  you  can  not  swear  him. 
What  swear  him  upon  ?  Is  it  upon  the  Book  or  the  leaf? 
The  ceremony  of  kissing  is  only  the  external  symbol  by 
which  man  seals  himself  to  the  precept,  and  says,  "  May  God 
so  help  me,  as  I  swear  the  truth."  He  is  then  attached  to 
the  Divinity  upon  the  condition  of  telling  the  truth ;  and  he 
expects  mercy  from  heaven,  as  he  performs  his  undertaking. 
But  the  infidel !  By  what  can  you  catch  his  soul  ?  or  by 
what  can  you  hold  it  ?  He  has  no  conscience,  no  hope  to 
cheer  him,  no  punishment  to  dread.  What  is  the  evidence 
touching  that  unfortunate  young  man  ?  What  kind  of  char- 
acter ?  Paine  was  his  creed  and  his  philosophy.  His  ideas 
of  religion  were  adopted  from  the  vulgar  maxims  of  the  same 
man — the  scandal  of  inquiry,  the  blasphemer  of  his  God. 
He  bears  testimony  against  himself,  that  he  had  submitted 
to  the  undertaking  of  reading  both  his  abominable  tracts — 
that  abomination  of  all  abominations,  Paine's  "  Age  of  Rea- 
son ";  who  professes  to  teach  mankind  that  he  did  not  learn 
himself!  Why  not  swear  the  witness  upon  the  vulgar  max- 
ims of  that  base  fellow,  that  wretched  outlaw  and  fugitive 
from  his  country  and  his  God? — Pages  122  and  278,  ^^Life 
iOf  the  Right  Honorable  Joh7i  Philpot  Curran^^^  by  his  son^ 
William  Henry  Curran. 


GEORGE  TICKNOR  CURTIS, 

Lawyer  and  Author.     (1812-1894.) 

WIIvL  touch  on  one  other  point  in  this  brief  account 
of  my  religious  opinions.  Since  the  revelation 
that  came  through  Christ,  there  have  been,  as  was 
foretold  there  would  be,  other  supposed  or  pretended 
revelations.  .  .  .  My  answer  is,  that  the  argument  and 
proofs  which  sustain  the  fiupJitv  r/ t""  C'l^^^'^^^''^^  ■r^Tr^lof1•^^■n — 
making  it  the  last  communication  of  God's  Word  that  will 
be  made  while  the  human  race  continues  on  earth — are  so 


J. 
o 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  IO9 

-Strong  that  they  overthrow  the  probability  of  any  subsequent 
communication  of  the  same  kind.  I  have  heard  it  argued 
that  God  is  constantly  revealing  Himself  in  different  ways ; 
that  new  proofs  of  His  power,  beneficence,  and  care  for  the 
human  race  are  constantly  accumulating;  that  Christ  and  His 
apostles  were  men  of  very  humble  birth  and  limited  educa- 
tion ;  that  in  the  course  of  ages,  as  the  wants  of  mankind 
seem  to  the  Divine  wisdom  to  require  further  revelation  of 
truth,  it  would  not  seem  strange  if  persons  of  equal  humble 
origin  were  to  be  selected  as  the  agents  through  which  they 
were  to  be  made,  and  that  there  is  a  priori  no  reason  why  a 
succession  of  such  revelations  should  not  occur  to  the  end  of 
time.  But  this  kind  of  reasoning  overlooks  two  very  impor- 
tant circumstances,  and  bases  itself  upon  a  priori  assumption. 
It  overlooks,  first,  the  great  fact  that  the  miracles  which 
attest  the  Divine  origin  of  Christianity, — the  miraculous  birth 
of  Christ,  the  miracles  wrought  by  Him  during  His  life.  His 
death  and  resurrection, — if  believed  on  satisfactory  evidence, 
constitute  a  body  of  proof  that  He  was  truly  the  Son  of  God, 
and  a  Messenger  sent  from  heaven,  to  which  no  subsequent 
prophet,  or  teacher,  or  supposed  instrument  of  a  new  revel- 
ation can  lay  claim.  Secondly,  the  Christian  revelation, 
taken  as  a  whole,  with  all  that  it  comprehends,  bears  internal 
evidence  that  it  was  intended  as  a  finality. 


LORD  HUGH  CECIU 

Member  of  Parliament  since  1895. 

.HE  best  thing  about  new  countries  is  that  new  ave- 
nues are  opened  for  the  advance  of  the  Gospel  of  our 
Saviour.  The  preeminent  importance  of  spreading 
the  Gospel  is  not  the  sentiment  which  dominates  all 
who  are  earnest  imperialists.  There  is  a  great  distinction 
between  the  imperial  spirit  and  the  missionary  spirit.  The 
missionary  spirit,  as  entertained  by  the  early  Church,  did 
not  look  to  the  spreading  of  one  species  of  Churchmanship, 
and  certainly  not  to  making  the  whole  world  Anglican ;  we 
look  to  making  them  Christian. — See  Address,  St,  James 
Hall,  June,  1900. 


no 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


BARON  GEORGES  CUVIER, 

French  Naturalist.     (1769-1832.) 


.RESH  regulations 
^X'c^  ^^'^  ^^^  discipline  of 
the  churches  were 
being  devised  by  him 
just  before  his  death ;  and 
when  he  was  removed  from 
the  world  his  memory  was 
fervently  eulogized  by  the 
French  pastors.  He  pro- 
moted the  circulation  of  the 
Holy  Scriptures,  and  became 
a  Vice-President  of  the  Bible 
Society.  He  was  active  in  the  cause  of  religious  as  well  as 
secular  education ;  and  in  a  discourse  which  he  delivered  at 
the  distribution  of  prizes,  instituted  for  the  reward  of  virtu- 
ous actions,  he,  with  all  the  fervor  of  a  French  orator,  en- 
forced upon  his  audience  the  primary  duties  of  love  to  Christ 
and  love  to  man. — Lee''s  ''^Memoir  of  Baron  Cuvier^^  po^g^ 
254- 


GEORGE  WILLIAM  CURTIS, 

Author  and  Journalist.    {1824-1892.) 

HAT  Jesus  has  done  for  humanity  "  seems  to  be 
found  in  the  history  of  humanity  since  His  life. 
That  part  of  the  human  race  among  which  His 
principles  have  become  the  most  powerful  tra- 
dition, bears  his  name  and  is  known  as  Christendom,  and  it  is 
in  Christendom  that  the  highest  civilization  has  been  reached 
and  the  most  beneficent  results  for  mankind  have  been 
attained.  The  spell  of  His  direct  personal  influence  lies  not 
only  in  the  sublime  self-renunciation  which  the  story  of  His 
life  reveals,  but  in  the  illustration  which  it  gives  us  that  the 


.1    CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES.  Ill 

qualities  that  we  call  God-like  are  possible  to  human  nature. 
The  person  reverenced  as  God  incarnate  was,  historically, 
an  ideally  good  man.  He  illustrated  in  daily  living  the 
practicability  of  principles  of  conduct  which  every  man 
secretly  feels  to  be  the  highest  conceivable,  and  He  is  the 
.constant  rebuke  of  self-indulgence  and  the  inspiration  of  the 
ioftiest  endeavor.  It  is  obvious,  of  course,  that  Christendom 
is  not,  and  never  has  been  Christian  in  the  essential  sense. 
^ut  the  permanent  service  of  Jesus  is  the  standard  which 
His  only  personal  career,  as  recorded,  furnishes,  and  by 
which  we  measure  and  test  the  progress  of  the  race.  Con- 
stantine's  cross  in  the  air  is  still  the  type  of  the  most  celestial 
influence  known  to  us ;  and  it  is  affirmed  by  the  most  imper- 
ishable consciousness  of  man  that,  in  that  sight  alone,  in 
courageous  fidelity  to  conscience,  in  self-sacrifice,  in  sym- 
pathy, in  humanity,  in  unbending  integrity,  we  conquer. — 
Christian  Register^  December  22,  1887. 


CHARLES  WILLIAM  DABNEY, 

President  University  of  Tennessee. 

'HE  best  teachers  I  ever  knew  were  earnest  Christians. 
In  fact,  I  have  never  known  a  single  warm-hearted, 
majestic,  soul-stirring  teacher  who  was  not  a  Chris- 
tian. 

As  Christ  is  the  corner-stone  of  our  life,  so  His  teachings 
must  be  the  corner-stone  of  the  true  education.  The  true 
teacher  loves  his  fellow  men,  and  this  love  gives  him  his 
power.  To  do  this  he  must  first  love  Jesus  and  the  inspired 
Scriptures,  and  so  be  filled  with  His  love.  This  is  the  way 
I  account  for  the  fact  of  my  life-long  observation  and  study 
•of  great  teachers,  viz. :  that  the  most  potent  soul-builder  is 
the  soul  built  on  Christ,  and  His  teachings. 


112  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

SIR  DAVID  DALRYMPLE,       ' 

(LORD  HAILES.) 

Scottish  Judge  and  Historian.     (1726-1792.) 

<^T  a  certain  literary  party  in  Scotland  this  question 
was  raised:  "Supposing  all  the  New  Testaments  in 
the  world  had  been   destroyed   at  the  end  of  the 
third  century,  could  their  contents  have   been  re- 
covered from  the  writings  of  the  first  three  centuries?" 

Some  two  months  after  this  occasion,  Sir  David  Dalrymple 
answered  the  above  interrogation  as  follows:  "That  ques- 
tion quite  accorded  with  the  taste  of  my  antiquarian  mind. 
On  my  returning  home,  as  I  knew  I  had  all  the  writers  of 
those  centuries,  I  began  immediately  to  collect  them,  that  I 
might  set  to  work  on  the  arduous  task  as  soon  as  possible. 
I  have  been  busy  these  two  months  searching  for  chapters,, 
half-chapters,  and  sentences  of  the  New  Testament,  and  have 
marked  down  what  I  found  and  where  I  found  it,  so  that  any 
person  may  examine  and  see  for  himself.  I  have  actually 
discovered  the  whole  New  Testament,  except  seven  or  eleven 
verses  (I  forget  which),  which  satisfies  me  that  I  could  dis- 
cover them  also.  God  concealed  the  treasures  of  His  Word 
where  Julian,  the  apostate  emperor,  and  the  other  enemies 
of  Christ] who  wished  to  extirpate  the  Gospel  from  the  world, 
would  never  have  thought  of,  and  though  they  had,  they 
never  could  have  effected  their  destruction. — See  Memoirs 
of  R.  and  J,  A,  Haldane^  by  Alexander  Haldane. 


CHARLES  ANDERSON  DANA, 

Journalist;    Editor  of  the   Sun.      (1819-1897.) 

BELIEVE  in  Christianity;  that  it  is  the  religion  taught 
to  men  by  God  Himself  in  Person  on  earth.     I  also 
believe  the  Bible  to*  be  a  Divine  revelation.     Chris- 
tianity is  not  comparable  with  any  other  religion.     It 
is  the  religion  which  came  from  God's  own  lips,  and  there- 


A    CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES.  II3 

fore  the  only  true  religion.     The  incarnation  is  a  fact,  and 
Christianity  is  based  on  revealed  truth. 

There  are  some  books  that  are  absolutely  indispensable  to 
the  kind  of  education  that  we  are  contemplating,  and  to  the 
profession  that  we  are  now  considering;  and  of  all  these,  the 
most  indispensable,  the  most  Useful,  the  one  whose  knowl- 
edge is  most  effective,  is  the  Bible.  There  is  no  Book  from 
which  more  valuable  lessons  can  be  learned.  I  am  consid- 
ering it  now  as  a  manual  of  utility,  or  professional  prepar- 
ation, and  professional  use  for  a  journalist.  There  is  no  Book 
whose  style  is  more  suggestive  and  more  instructive,  from 
which  you  learn  more  directly  that  sublime  simplicity  which 
never  exaggerates,  which  recounts  the  greatest  event  with 
solemnity,  of  course,  but  without  sentimentality  or  affectation, 
none  which  you  open  with  such  confidence  and  lay  down 
with  such  reverence ;  there  is  no  Book  like  the  Bible.  When 
you  get  into  a  controversy  and  want  exactly  the  right  an- 
swer, when  you  are  looking  for  an  expression,  what  is  there 
that  closes  a  dispute  like  a  verse  from  the  Bible?  What  is 
it  that  sets  up  the  right  principle  for  you,  which  pleads  for  a 
policy,  for  a  cause,  so  much  as  the  right  passage  of  the  Holy 
Scripture? 


JOHN  W.  DAVIS, 

Late  Governor  of  Rhode  Island. 


HE  evidence  of  the  divinity  of  Jesus  Christ  is  cumu- 
lative both  in  His  testimony  and  with  time,  and  in 
entire  accordance  with  the  Holy  Scriptures,  which 
testify  of  Him.     "  The  Word  of  the  Lord  endure th 


forever." 


-^y^. 


114  A    CI.OUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

JAMES  DWIGHT  DANA, 

Geolog-ist  and  Minerologist.     (1813-1895.) 

.HIS  grand  old  Book  of  God  still  stands,  and  this  old 
earth,  the  more  its  leaves  are  turned  over  and  pon- 
dered, the  more  it  will  sustain  and  illustrate  the 
sacred  Word. 

I  believe  the  record  to  be  Divine.  I  believe  not  only  the 
first  verse  to  be  true,  but  each  verse  to  be  worthy  of  its  place 
in  the  Bible.  I  would  not  separate  the  first  verse  from  its 
pronounced  theism  and  call  the  next  an  adapted  fable, 
meaning  thereby  that  it  is  little  worth  studying  and  inter- 
preting ;  for  I  find  no  evidence  of  this  in  the  chapter  itself, 
which  has  God's  approbation  stamp  on  each  day's  work,  nor 
€ven  in  the  events  announced  when  viewed  with  the  aid  of 
modern  science.  If  the  narrative  must  be  regarded  as  one  of 
several  documents  that  are  compiled  to  make  up  the  early  por- 
tion of  the  Bible,  as  some  Biblical  scholars  hold,  I  would  still 
claim  for  it  a  place  among  the  earliest  and  most  extraordinary 
of  historical  records,  and  none  the  less  Divine,  none  the  less 
worthy  of  study.  .  .  .  The  degree  of  accordance  between 
science  and  the  Bible  which  has  been  made  out  should  satisfy 
us  of  the  Divine  origin  both  of  nature  and  the  Bible.  .  .  . 
The  stately  review  of  the  ages  making  the  introduction  to 
the  Bible,  stands  there  as  the  impress  of  the  Divine  hand  on 
the  leaf  of  the  sacred  Book.  .  .  .  But  the  sure  word  of 
prophecy  is  given  in  the  inspired  Book  which  came  as  a  se- 
quel to  the  volume  of  nature  to  be  man's  special  guide  to  life 
and  immortality. — Quoted  from  his  lecture  before  the  students 
of  Yale  College^  and  published  in  the  Old  and  New  Testament 
Student. 

HoNORE  DE  Balzac,  French  Novelist  (1799-1858): 
Thought — the  fountain  of  good  and  evil — can  not  be  trained, 
mastered,  and  directed,  except  by  religion;  and  the  only  pos- 
sible religion  is  Christianity,  which  created  the  modern  world 
and  will  preserve  it. — Preface  to  his  Comedie  Humane. 


-"^ 


GERMAN    HOUSEHOLD    NAMES. 

JOHANN   CHRISTOPH   F.   SCHILLER, 
Page  396. 
FRIEDERICH  GOTTLIEB  KLOPSTOCK,  JOHANN  SEBASTIAN  BACH. 
Page  270.  Page  2T. 

FREDERICK   H.  A.  HUMBOLDT, 
Page  241. 
JOHANN   WOLFGANG  GOETHE,  FRANZ  JOSEPH   HAYDN, 

Page  174.  Page  220. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  II5 

SIR  HUMPHREY  DAVY, 

English  Chemist.     (1778-1829.) 

|F  all  the  religions  which  have  operated  upon  the  human 
mind,  Christianity  alone  has  the  consistent  character 
-jfSP  of  perfect  truth;  all  its  parts  are  arranged  with  the 
most  beautiful  symmetry;  and  its  grand  effects  have 
been  -constantly  connected  with  virtuous  gratification,  with 
moral  and  intellectual  improvement,  with  the  present  and 
future  happiness. — Page  272,  ''^EncyclopcBdia  of  Literary  and 
Scientific  Anecdotes ^^  by  William  Kiddie. 

I  should  prefer  a  firm  religious  belief  to  every  other  bless- 
ing, for  it  makes  life  a  discipline  of  goodness;  creates  new 
hopes  when  all  earthly  hopes  vanish ;  throws  over  the  decay, 
the  destruction  of  existence,  the  most  gorgeous  of  all  lights  ; 
awakens  life  even  in  death ;  from  corruption  and  decay  calls 
up  beauty  and  divinity,  and  makes  the  very  Cross,  that 
instrument  of  torture  and  of  shame,  the  ladder  of  ascent  to 
Paradise. — ^^Salmonia^  or  Days  of  Fly-fishing^^^  by  Sir  Hum- 
phrey Davy. 

NOAH  KNOWLES  DAVIS, 

Professor  of  Moral  Philosophy,  University  of  Virginia. 

^HE  greatest  philosopher  of  modern  times  tells  us 
that  an  organism  is  a  whole  whose  parts  are  all  mu- 
tually means  and  ends.  The  great  creation,  the 
spiritual  and  material  universe,  seems  to  me  an  or- 
ganism. Body  is  for  spirit,  and  spirit  is  for  body.  But 
the  question  arises.  For  what  is  the  universe?  Without  an 
end  beyond  itself,  it  is  an  incomplete,  an  imperfect  organ- 
ism. Its  end  is  Christ!  The  universe  is  for  Christ,  and 
Christ  is  for  the  universe.  Neither,  apart  from  the  other,  is 
sufficient ;  they  are  complementary,  and  together  constitute 
a  finished,  organic  whole.  Scripture  is  a  temporary  link, 
binding  together  humanity  and  Christ. 


c/h>^tAy|C.   S. 


i:2yi/-t^ 


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A    CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 


DANIEL  DEFOE, 

English  Novelist;    Author  of  "Robinson   Crusoe."     (i66i?-i73i.) 


N  what  glorious  col- 
ors do  the  Scrip- 
tures, upon  all  oc- 
casions, represent 
these  two  hand-in-hand 
graces,  faith  and  repent- 
ance? There  is  not  one 
mention  of  faith  in  the 
whole  Scriptures  but 
what  is  recommended  in 
some  way  or  other  to  our 
admiration,  and  to  our 
practice ;  it  is  the  founda- 
tion and  the  top-stone  of 
all  religion,  the  right- 
hand  to  lead,  and  the  left-hand  to  support,  in  the  whole 
journey  of  the  Christian,  even  through  this  world,  and  into 
the  next ;  in  a  word,  it  is  the  sum  and  substance  of  the  Gos- 
pel foundation. 

How  incongruous  is  it  to  the  decoration  of  the  government, 
that  a  man  should  be  punished  for  drunkenness  and  set  in 
stocks  for  swearing,  but  shall  have  liberty  to  deny  the  God 
of  Heaven,  and  dispute  against  the  very  sum  and  substance 
of  the  Christian  doctrine  ;  shall  banter  the  Scripture,  and 
make  ballads  of  the  Pentateuch  ;  turn  all  the  principles  of 
religion,  the  salvation  of  the  soul,  the  death  of  our  Saviour, 
and  the  revelation  of  the  Gospel  into  ridicule.  And  shall  we 
pretend  to  reformation  of  manners,  and  suppressing  immor- 
alities, while  such  as  this  is  the  general  mixture  of  conversa- 
tion ?  If  a  man  talk  against  the  government,  or  speak 
scurrilously  of  the  King,  he  is  led  to  the  old  Bailey,  and  from 
thence  to  the  pillory,  or  whipping-post,  and  it  should  be  so; 
but  he  may  speak  treason   against  the  Majesty  of  Heaven, 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  II7 

deny  the  Godhead  of  the  Redeemer,  and  make  a  jest  of  the 
Holy  Ghost,  and  thus  affront  the  Power  we  all  adore,  and  yet 
with  impunity. — Pages  187  and  102,  Volume  III^  ^^A  Selec- 
tion from  the  Works  of  Daniel  Defoe. ''^ 


ALIGHIERI  DANTE, 

Italian  Poet.     (1265-1321.) 


THE  INSPIRED  WORD. 

O  Him  who  subtilizes  thus  with  me, 

There  would  assuredly  be  room  for  doubt 
Even  to  wonder,  did  not  the  safe  Word 
Of  Scripture  hold  supreme  authority. 

— Canto  xix  in  "  The  Poet's  Vision  of  Hell'^ 


HIS  RELIGIOUS  BELIEF. 

I  in  one  God  believe ; 
One  sole  eternal  Godhead,  of  whose  love 
All  heaven  is  moved,  Himself  unmoved  the  while. 
Nor  demonstration  phj^sical  alone, 
Or  more  intelligential  and  abstruse, 
Persuades  me  to  this  faith :  but  from  that  truth 
It  comes  to  me  rather,  which  is  shed 
Through  Moses ;  the  rapt  Prophets ;  and  the  Psalms 
The  Gospels  ;  and  what  y^  yourselves  did  write, 
When  ye  were  gifted  of  the  Holy  Ghost. 
In  three  eternal  Persons  I  believe ; 
Essence  threefold  and  one  ;  m\'sterious  league 
Of  union  absolute,  which,  many  a  time. 
The  Word  of  Gospel  lore  upon  my  mind 
Imprints ;  and  from  this  germ,  this  firstling  spark, 
The  lively  flame  dilates ;  and,  like  heaven's  star. 
Doth  glitter  in  me. 

— Cantc  xxiv  in  "  Th^  Poefs  Vision  of  Hell'' 


Albert,  Prince,  of  Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,  Consort  of  Queen 
Victoria  (1819-1861),  on  his  dying  day  exclaimed:  "I  have 
had  wealth,  rank,  and  power,  but  if  this  were  all  I  had,  how 
wretched  I  would  be  now ! 

"  Rock  of  Ages,  cleft  for  me, 
Let  me  hide  mvself  in  Thee." 


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A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


SIR  JOHN  WILLIAM  DAWSON, 

President  of  McGill  College;  Canadian  Geologist  and  Naturalist. 

AM  fully  of  the 
opinion  that  it  is 
only  by  receiving 
the    testimony   of 
the   Bible   to   Christ,  and 
the    testimony    of  Christ 
to  the  Bible,  in  their  in- 
tegrity, that   the   highest 
interests  of  man  can    be 
secured. 

If  we  look  up  with  ador- 
ing wonder  to  the  material 
universe,  the  Bible  leads 
us  to  see  in  this  the  pow- 
er and  Godhead  of  the 
Creator,  and  the  Creator  as  the  living  God,  our  Heavenly 
Father.  The  Bible  points  us  to  Jesus  Christ,  God  manifest 
in  the  flesh. 


From  Authors'  Portrait  Catalogue.— Copyright,  1892,  by 
Hnrcer  A  Brothers 


CUSHMAN  KELLOGG  DAVIS, 


United  States  District  Attorney,  1866-1871  ;  Governor; 
Senator,  1887  till  Death.     (1838-1900.) 


United  States 


N  answer  to  the  question  about  modern  biblical  criti- 
cism, he  replied:  '*The  heart  of  the  question  is  not  in 
any  debate  about  the  history  of  the  books  of  the  Bible. 
I  am  very  familiar  with  the  Scriptures.  Job  is  the 
noblest  poem  ever  written,  and  there  is  the  loftiest  eloquence 
in  the  Prophets.  Nor  is  it  in  the  literature  of  the  sacred  Book 
that  the  problem  rests.  I  know  human  history,  and  I  know 
that  in  the  first  century  something  happened  that  destroyed 
the  old  world  and  gave  birth  to  the  new.  The  resurrection 
of  Jesus  Christ  accounts  for  that  change,  and  I  do  not  know 
of  any  other  adequate  solution." — Samuel  G.  Smith  in  Re- 
view of  Reviews^  January^    1 90 1 . 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


CHAUNCEY  MITCHELL  DEPEW, 


119 


Lawyer;    Popular  Orator;   late  President  of  the  New  York  Central  and 
Hudson  River  Railroad  Company;  United  States  Senator. 

BELIEVE  in  the  Old  Testament  and  the  New  Testa- 
ment precisely  as  they  are  presented  by  Christianity. 
It  was  the  atheism  of  France  that  taught  license  for 
liberty  and  led  to  the  French  Revolution.  Where  are 
those  old  philosophies  and  old  philosophers?  They  are  dead, 
while  Christianity  survives.  The  school  of  atheism  led  to 
despair.  Materialism  soon  found  that  every  violation  of 
the  moral  law  could  go  on  consistently  with  its  teachings. 
So  pantheism  and  positivism  have  followed,  only  to  be  de- 
stroyed ;  and  now  we  have  the  school  of  humanity  and  the 
cosmic  philosophy  coming  close  to  the  borders  of  Christianity. 
They  tell  us  there  is  no  more  Creator — only  a  cosmic  dust. 
Who  made  the  dust?  There  is  only  protoplasm  indeed. 
Who  made  protoplasm?  They  tell  of  evolution  from  dust 
to  monkey,  and  then  to  man;  but  all  the  scientists  have 
never  found  the  missing  link.  The  simple  Gospel  of  the 
humble  Son  01  a  carpenter,  preached  by  twelve  fishermen, 
has  survived  the  centuries,  and  outlives  all  other  philoso- 
phies of  1800  years. 

I  am  not  posted  in  the  terminology  of  the  philosophies.  I 
believe  them  to  be  of  little  use  to  reach  the  heart  and 
influence  the  actions  of  simple  men.  There  is  no  liberty 
that  lasts  in  the  world,  and  there  is  no  government  which 
has  liberty  in  it  that  lasts  that  does  not  recognize  the  Bible. 
How  many  of  us  can  even  understand  what  the  philoso- 
pher says?  You  might  take  the  whole  Stock  Exchange  and 
read  Kant  to  them,  and  it  would  be  wholly  incomprehensi^ 
ble  to  them.  Not  so  with  the  teachings  of  the  Golden  Rule. 
They  could  understand  at  least  what  that  means.  They  tell 
us  that  God  must  disappear ;  that  prayer  is  begging;  that 
Holy  Communion  is  cannibalism.  When  did  such  a  religion 
send  out  a  missionary  ?  When  you  show  me  a  colony  of 
10,000  people  who  have  come  to  live  decently  by  its  teach- 
ings, I  may  believe  it.  But  I  say  now  that  the  Christian 
faith  of  my  mother  is  good  enough  for  me. 


(3va^— .^'^f^^ 


I20  A   CLOUD    OF   WltNKSSES. 

PRINCIPAL  DALE, 

British  Educator;  Principal  Liverpool  University  College. 

[OMPARK  the  circulation  of  the  Bible  with  the  migh- 
tiest masters  of  the  past :  Plato,  Aristotle,  Sophicles, 
Virgil,  Horace.  Then  link  together  all  these  great 
lights,  and  take  all  the  circulation  they  together  can 
command,  and  you  would  not  have  even  then  the  fraction 
of  the  circulation  of  the  inspired  Book.  Go  further  still. 
Add  to  the  great  names  of  classical  antiquity  Dante,  Shakes- 
peare, Milton,  Moliere,  and  still  the  Bible  stands  unapproach- 
able. Passing  from  numbers  to  range,  the  contrast  is  all 
the  more  wonderful.  Even  the  products  of  the  first  of  these 
masters  have  passed  at  most  into  eight  or  ten  languages, 
while  the  Bible  has  passed  into  370  languages. 

No  Book  has  had  to  face  so  many  foes,  so  varied  and 
incessant.  Philosophy  has  come  with  its  metaphysical 
difficulties;  history  has  come  with  its  load  of  laborious 
learning;  science  has  come  seeking  to  measure  the  things 
of  eternity  with  the  measure  of  time;  wit  and  eloquence 
have  come,  and  they  have  fought  against  the  Bible  as  they 
have  fought  for  it ;  every  passing  age  has  had  weapons  of  its 
own,  which  the  next  age  has  discarded;  and  now  as  one 
moves  through  the  silent  halls  of  time,  there  they  stand,  line 
after  line,  row  after  row,  dusty,  mouldy,  with  the  dint  of  a 
score  of  conflicts,  but  as  outworn  and  out  of  date  as  our 
swords,   axes  and  halberds.  y^  y  ^        ^ 


JEAN  ANDRE  DELUC, 

Genevese  Geologist  and  Meteorologist,     (1727-1817.) 

.HE  Scripture  teaches  that  the  man  whom  God  created 
good  became  a  transgressor,  and  the  death  which  he 
deserved  by  his  disobedience  will  be  taken  away,  and 
eternal  life  be  prepared  for  him  .  .  .  that  finally 
the  Son  of  God,  the  Prince  of  Life,  had  to  take  upon  Him- 
self our  human  nature,  and  a  mortal  body  like  ours,  that  He 
might  suffer  and  die  in  this  body  and  rise  for  our  righteous- 
ness. Very  many  say  freely,  that  it  is  incomprehensible  ;  I 
do  not  wonder  at  them,  for  I  have  no  hope  of  understanding 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 


121 


It  in  this  life.  But  I  firmly  believe  that  it  is  true,  because 
the  Holy  Scripture  teaches  me  so,  and  I  say  with  the  Apostle 
Paul,  who  expressly  calls  religion  a  mystery:  ''O,  the  depth 
of  the  riches  both  of  the  wisdom  and  the  knowledge  of  God  ! 
How  unsearchable  are  His  judgments,  and  His  ways  past 
finding  out!"  Romans  11:33. — Page  171  of  his  work  on 
■''  The  Foundation  of  Theology^  Theodicy^  and  Morality.^'' 


THE  RIGHT  HONORABLE  SIR  JOSEPH 
DIMSDALE, 

SK_  Lord  Mayor  of  London,  igoa. 

VERY  section  of  Christ's  church 
is  associated  in  the  great  work  of 
circulating  the  Word  of  God  to 
our  less  favored  fellow-creatures, 
but  the  greater  blessing  is  in  extending 
the  knowledge  of  our  Saviour  who  died 
for  them.  .  .  .  Over  the  doors  of 
the  Royal  Exchange,  written  in  letters  of  gold,  are  these 
words:  "The  Earth  is  the  Lord's,  and  the  fullness  thereof!'' 
— On  Taking  the  Chair ^  Ninety-eighth  Birthday  of  the  British 
and  JForeign  Bible  Society^  Guildhall^  March  8,  1902. 


THOMAS  DENMAN, 

Lord  Chief-Justice  of  England.     (1779-1854.) 


VERSES  ON  THE  SLAVE  TRADE  AND  THE 
PRESS. 

O  Thou  whose  equal  eye  surveys 

Unhappy  Afric's  realms  undone, 
From  the  abyss  of  misery  raise 

These  brethren  of  Thy  only  Son  ! 
O  Thou,  all  wise,  all  just,  all  good. 

Deign  to  suppress  Thy  wrath  Divine  ; 
Forbear  to  visit,  for  the  blood 

By  Moloch  poured  on  Mammon's  shrine ! 
Quench  not  the  flood  of  honest  shame  ; 

Touch  reckless  hearts  with  love  again  ; 
Let  Christians  still  deserve  their  name. 

And  men  remember  they  are  men. 


J22  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

AUGUSTUS  DE  MORGEN, 

British  Mathematician  and  Logician.     (1806-1871.) 

COMMEND  my  future  destiny,  with  hope  derived 
from  experience,  to  Almighty  God,  the  Father  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ,  by  whom  I  believe  in  my  heart  that 
God  will  raise  me  from  the  dead,  and  whom  I  have  not 
confessed  with  my  mouth  in  the  sense  usually  attached  to 
those  words,  because  such  a  confession  has  been  in  my  time 
the  way  up  in  the  world. — From  his  Last  Will. 


GEORGE  DEWEY, 

Admiral ;    Hero  of  Manila  Bay. 


"T  is  strange  that  we  have  wrested  an  empire  from  these 
people  (the  Spaniards)  with  the  loss  of  only  a  few 
men.  I  am  a  Christian  man,  believing  firmly  in 
Christ  and  the  Book,  and  I  say  most  assuredly  it  was 
the  hand  of  God.  I  remember  when  we  engaged  the  fleet 
seeing  shells  firing  directly  at  us,  and  I  do  not  understand 
under  heaven  why  we  escaped,  unless  it  be  through  Divine 
superintendence  so  forcibly  expressed  in  these  familiar  lines: 

"  God  tnovevS  in  a  mysterious  way 

His  wonders  to  perform ; 
He  plants  His  footsteps  in  the  sea, 

And  rides  upon  the  storm." 


>^^^ 


^^ 


SIR  HENRY  MARION   DURAND, 

Late  Governor-General  of  the  Punjab.     (1812-1871.) 

AM  about  to  die;  my  life  has  been  a  hard  and  bitter 
one,  and  the  only  thing  which  has  kept  me  through  it 
has  been  the  love  and  fear  of  God.  I  beg  you  to  look 
to  Christ  in  all  things,  to  do  justice  and  love  the  right. 

(To  his  children.) — Page  174,  "  Twelve  Indian  Statesmen^'' ^ 

by  George  Smith. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  123 

THOMAS  DE  QUINCEY, 

English  Writer;   Author  of  "Confessions   of  an  English  Opium-Eatcr." 

(1785-1859.) 

HE  first  class,  the  evidential  miracles,  are  all  those 
which  were  performed  merely  as  evidences  (whether 
^-^w  simply  as  indications,  or  as  absolute  demonstrations) 
of  the  Divine  power  which  upholds  Christianity. 
The  second  class,  the  constitutional  miracles,  are  those  which 
constituted  a  part  of  Christianity.  Two  of  these  are  abso- 
lutely indispensable  to  Christianity,  and  can  not  be  separated 
from  it  even  in  thought,  viz.,  the  miraculous  birth  of  our 
Saviour,  and  His  resurrection.  The  first  is  essential  upon 
this  ground:  that  unless  Christ  had  united  the  two  natures 
(Divine  and  human)  He  could  not  have  made  the  satisfaction 
required.  For,  try  it  both  ways:  not  being  human,  then 
indeed.  He  might  have  had  power  to  go  through  the  myster- 
ious sufferings  of  the  satisfaction ;  but  how  would  that  have 
applied  to  man?  It  would  have  been  perfect,  but  how  would 
it  have  been  relevant  ?  Now  try  it  the  other  way :  not  being 
Divine,  then,  indeed,  any  satisfaction  He  could  make  would 
be  relevant ;  but  phow  would  it  have  been  possible  in  a  being 
Himself  tainted  with  frailty?  It  is  an  argument  used  by 
Christianity  itself:  that  man  can  not  offer  satisfaction  for 
man.  The  mysterious  and  supernatural  birth,  therefore,  were 
essential  as  a  capacitation  for  the  work  to  be  performed, 
and,  on  the  other  hand,  the  mysterious  death  and  conse- 
quences were  essential  as  the  very  work  itself. — Pages  174 
and  ^^^of  De  Quincey^s  ^^Theological  Essay s^'^''  Volume  /. 


Victor  Duruy,  French  Historian  and  Minister  of  Educa- 
tion, in  his  ''  History  of  Rome,  and  the  Roman  People,"  page 
544,  speaks  of  the  Psalms  as  "  that  lyric  poetry  of  the  He- 
brews, the  most  beautiful  that  the  world  has  ever  known," 
and  of  the  Saviour  as  "  the  Christ,  the  Son  of  God,  Himself 
the  very  God." 


124  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

GABRIEL  ROMANOVITCH  DERZHAVIN, 

Russian  Poet,  and  Secretary  of  State  under  Catherine  II.     {i743-i8i6.> 


CEI.ESTIAL  SABBATH. 

Sung  at  Midnight  in  Greek  Churches  a  week  before  Easter 
Morning. 

>HE  golden  palace  of  my  God, 

Towering  above  the  clouds,  I  see ; 
Beyond  the  cherubs'  bright  abode, 

Higher  than  angel's  thoughts  can  be. 
How  can  I  in  those  courts  appear 

Without  a  wedding  garment  on  ? 
Conduct  me,  Thou  Life-Giver,  there — 

Conduct  me  to  Thy  glorious  throne ! 
And  clothe  me  with  Thy  robes  of  light, 
And  lead  me  through  sin's  darksome  night, 

My  Saviour  and  my  God  ! 


JOHN   KENELM  WINGFIELD   DIGBY, 

Member  of  Parliament. 

HO  can  estimate  the  price  of  an  immortal  soul  that 
the  Son  of  God  gave  His  life  blood  for!  Think  of 
computing  that  in  the  wretched  gold,  silver  and 
copper  of  this  world !  .  .  .  From  the  Greeks 
we  receive  our  philosophy,  from  the  Romans  our  laws,  from 
the  Jews  our  Bible,  and  through  them  our  Divine  Lord. — 
See  Address  before  the  London  Society  for  Promotijig  Chris-- 
tianity  Among  the  Jews,  June,  1896. 


ANTOINE  ISAAC  SYLVESTRE  DE  SACY, 

French  Orientalist.     (1758-1838.) 

F  my  conduct  has  not  always  been  comformable  to  the 
sacred  rules  which  my  faith  enjoins,  those  faults  have 
never  been  the  effect  of  an>  doubt  of  the  truth  of  the 
Christian  religion,  or  of  its  divine  origin.  I  firmly 
trust  that  they  will  be  forgiven  me  through  the  mercy  of 
my   Heavenly   Father,    in   virtue  of   the  sacrifice  of    Jesus- 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  125 

Christ,  my  Saviour;  not  putting  my  confidence  in  any  merit 
of  my  own,  and  confessing  from  the  bottom  of  my  heart  that 
in  myself  I  am  nothing  but  weakness,  misery,  and  wretched- 
ness. — Asiatic  Journal^  Volume  IV^  page  K^^y- 


CHARLES  DICKENS, 

English  Novelist.     (1812-1870.) 


HIS  clause  appears 
in  his  will :  ''I  com- 
mit my  soul  to  the 
mercy  of  God 
through  our  Lord  and  Sav- 
iour Jesus  Christ,  and  I  ex- 
hort my  children  to  try  and 
guide  themselves  by  the 
teachings  of  the  New  Testa- 
ment in  its  broad  spirit,  and 
to  put  no  faith  in  any  man's 
narrow  construction  of  its 
letter  here  or  there." 

From  a  letter  to  his  youngest  son,  Edward  :  '^  Try  to  do  to 
others  as  you  would  like  to  have  them  do  to  you  ;  and  do  not  be 
discouraged  if  they  fail  sometimes.  It  is  much  better  for  you 
that  they  should  fail  in  obeying  the  greatest  rule  laid  down 
by  our  Saviour  than  that  you  should.  I  have  put  a  New 
Testament  among  your  books  for  the  very  same  reasons,  and 
with  the  very  same  hopes,  that  made  me  write  an  easy  ac- 
count of  it  for  you  when  you  were  a  child,  because  it  is 
the  best  Book  that  ever  was  or  ever  will  be  known  in  the 
world ;  and  because  it  teaches  you  the  best  lessons  by  which 
any  human  creature  who  tries  to  be  truthful  and  faithful  to 
duty  can  possibly  be  guided." 

This   is   a    copy  of  a  letter  to  his  daughter :    ''As    your 


126  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

brothers  have  gone  away,  one  by  one,  I  have  written  to 
each  such  words  as  I  am  writing  to  you,  and  have  entreated 
them  all  to  guide  themselves  by  this  Book,  putting  aside  the 
interpretations  of  men.  You  will  remember  that  you  have 
never  at  home  been  wearied  about  religious  observances  or 
mere  formalities.  I  have  always  been  anxious  not  to  weary 
my  children  with  such  things  before  they  were  old  enough 
to  form  opinions  respecting  them.  You  will,  therefore,  un- 
derstand the  better  that  I  now  most  solemnly  impress  upon 
you  the  truth  and  beauty  of  the  Christian  religion  as  it  came 
from  Jesus  Christ  Himself,  and  the  impossibility  of  your  go- 
ing far  wrong  if  you  humbly  and  heartily  respect  it.  Only 
one  thing  more  on  this  head :  The  more  we  are  in  earnest 
as  to  feeling  it,  the  less  we  are  disposed  to  hold  forth  about 
it.  Never  abandon  the  wholesome  practice  of  saying  your 
own  private  prayers  night  and  morning.  I  have  never  aban- 
doned it  myself,  and  I  know  the  comfort  of  it." — Ma^nie 
Dickens^  eldest  daughter  of  Charles  Dickens^  in  "  What  My 
Father  Taught  Us^^^  Ladies^  Home  Journal^  February^  1892. 


DIET  OF  SPIRES, 

(JOHN  OF  SAXONY,  ERNEST  OF   LUNEBURG,  PHILIP  OF 

HESSE,  WOLFGANG  OF  ANHALT, 

AND  OTHERS.) 

'HIS  celebrated  Protest,"  says  the  Encyclopaedia  Brit- 
tanica,  ^'from  which  comes  the  name  Protestant,  is 
one  of  the  noblest  documents  of  Christian  history.  It 
was  signed  by  John  of  Saxony,  Ernest  of  Luneburg, 
Philip  of  Hesse,  Wolfgang  of  Anhalt,  among  the  princes 
and  representatives  of  the  free  cities."  This  is  a  copy  of 
the  Protest,  which,  besides  its  historical  interest,  serves  the 
purpose  of  this  work  in  giving  the  declaration  of  faith  of  the 
princes  above  named: 

"Dear  Lords,  Cousins,  Uncles,  and   Friends:    Having  re- 
paired to  this  Diet  at  the  summons  of  His  Majesty,  and  for 


A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES.  127 

the  common  good  of  the  empire  and  of  Christendom,  we 
have  heard  and  learnt  that  the  decisions  of  the  last  Diet  con- 
cerning our  holy  Christian  faith  are  to  be  repealed,  and  that 
it  is  proposed  to  substitute  for  them  certain  restrictive  and 
onerous  resolutions. 

''King  Ferdinand  and  the  other  Imperial  commissaries, 
by  affixing  their  seals  to  the  last  Recess  of  Spires,  had  prom- 
ised, however,  in  the  name  of  the  Emperor,  to  carry  out  sin- 
cerely and  inviolably  all  that  it  contained,  and  to  permit 
nothing  that  was  contrary  to  it.  In  like  manner,  also,  you 
and  we,  electors,  princes,  lords,  and  deputies  of  the  empire, 
bound  ourselves  to  maintain  always,  and  with  our  whole 
might,  every  article  of  that  decree. 

''We  can  not,  therefore,  consent  to  its  repeal: 

"Firstly,  because  we  believe  that  his  Imperial  Majesty  (as 
well  as  you  and  we)  is  called  to  maintain  firmly  what  has 
been  unanimously  and  solemnly  resolved. 

"  Secondly,  because  it  concerns  the  glory  of  God  and  the 
salvation  of  our  souls,  and  that  in  such  matters  we  ought  to 
have  regard,  above  all,  to  the  commandment  of  God,  who  is 
King  of  kings,  and  Lord  of  lords,  each  of  us  rendering  Him 
account  for  himself,  without  caring  the  least  in  the  world 
about  majority  or  minority. 

"We  form  no  judgment  on  that  account  which  concerns 
you,  most  dear  lords,  and  we  are  content  to  pray  God  daily 
that  He  will  bring  us  all  to  unity  of  faith,  in  truth,  charity, 
and  holiness  through  Jesus  Christ,  our  throne  of  grace,  and 
our  only  Mediator. 

"  But  in  what  concerns  ourselves,  adhesion  to  your  resolu- 
tion (and  let  every  honest  man  be  judge!)  would  be  acting: 
against  our  conscience,  condemning  a  doctrine  that  we  main- 
tain to  be  Christian,  and  pronouncing  that  it  ought  to  be 
abolished  in  our  states,  if  we  would  do  so  without  trouble. 

"This  would  be  to  deny  our  Lord  Jesus  Cl^rist,  to  reject 
His  holy  Word,  and  thus  give  Him  just  reason  to  deny  us 
in  turn  before  His  Father,  as  He  has  threatened. 

"What!     We  ratify  this  edict!     We  assert  that  when  Al- 


128  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

mighty  God  calls  a  man  to  His  knowledge,  this  man,  how- 
ever, can  not  receive  the  knowledge  of  God !  Oh !  of  what 
deadly  backslidings  should  we  not  thus  become  the  accom- 
plices, not  only  among  our  own  subjects,  but  also  among 
yours ! 

"Moreover,  the  new  edict  declaring  the  ministers  shall 
preach  the  Gospel,  explaining  it  according  to  the  writings 
accepted  by  the  holy  Christian  Church;  we  think  that  for 
this  regulation  to  have  any  value,  we  should  first  agree  on 
what  is  meant  by  the  true  and  holy  Church.  Now,  seeing 
there  is  a  great  diversity  of  opinion  in  this  respect;  that 
there  is  no  sure  doctrine  but  such  as  is  conformable  to  the 
Word  of  God;  that  the  Lord  forbids  the  teaching  of  any 
other  doctrine;  that  each  text  of  the  Holy  Scriptures  ought 
to  be  explained  by  other  and  clearer  texts;  that  this  holy 
Book  is  in  all  things  necessary  for  the  Christian,  easy  of  un- 
derstanding, and  calculated  to  scatter  the  darkness,  we  are 
resolved,  with  the  grace  of  God,  to  maintain  the  pure  and 
exclusive  teaching  of  His  holy  Word,  such  as  it  is  contained 
in  the  biblical  books  of  the  Old  and  New  Testament,  with- 
out adding  anything  thereto  that  may  be  contrary  to  it. 
This  Word  is  the  only  truth ;  it  is  the  same  rule  of  all  doc- 
trine and  of  all  life,  and  can  never  fail  or  deceive  us.  He 
who  builds  on  this  foundation  shall  stand  against  all  the 
powers  of  hell,  whilst  all  the  human  vanities  that  are  set  up 
against  it  shall  fall  before  the  face  of  God. 

"For  these  reasons,  most  dear  lords,  uncles,  cousins,  and 
friends,  we  earnestly  entreat  you  to  weigh  carefully  our 
grievances  and  our  motives.  If  you  do  not  yield  to  our  re- 
quest, we  PROTEST  by  these  presents,  before  God  our  only 
Creator,  Preserver,  Redeemer,  and  Saviour,  and  who  will  one 
day  be  our  Judge,  as  well  as  before  all  men  and  creatures, 
that  we,  for  us  and  our  people,  neither  consent  nor  adhere 
in  any  manner  whatsoever  to  the  proposed  decree  in  any- 
thing that  is  contrary  to  God,  to  His  holy  Word,  to  our  right 
of  conscience,  to  the  salvation  of  our  souls,  and  to  the  last 
decree  of  Spires." 


A   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES.  1 29 

SIR  DYCE   DUCKWORTH, 

British  Physician  ;    Treasurer  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Physicians. 

^a4s  Physicians  we  are  brought  so  directly  in  contact 
^^Cc\  with  humanity  in  all  its  phases,  and  see  so  deeply 
9  M^  into  the  hidden  depths  of  its  woes  and  its  needs, 
that  we  are  come  to  know  where  true  healing  is  to 
be  found.  We  are  thus  able  to  bear  witness  to  the  light  in 
which  it  is  best  to  live,  and  we  believe,  further,  that  the 
Christian  faith  is  not  only  the  best  to  live  by,  but  the  best  to 
die  by.  .      .      "No  man  hath  seen  God  at  any  time:   the 

only  begotten  Son,  which  is  in  the  bosom  of  the  Father,  He 
hath  declared  Him." — See  preface  to  Sir  Andrew  Clark' ^^ 
Testimony  for  Christy  by  Sir  Dyce  Duckworth. 


ADOLPHE  NAPOLEON  DIDRON, 

French  Archaeologist.     (1806-1867.) 

^N  stained  glass  of  the  thirteenth  century,  and  sculpture 
of  the  fourteenth,  Christ  is  represented  enthroned  on 
clouds,  and  His  back  supported  by  a  rainbow;  the 
Tables  of  the  Law  are  placed  on  the  Ark  of  the  Cov- 
enant at  the  left  hand,  the  Book  of  the  Evangelists  is  lying 
open  on  an  altar  at  the  left,  and  the  New  Testament  at  the 
right  hand.  This  is  as  it  should  be  ;  the  Old  Testament  is 
regarded  as  the  pedestal  or  groundwork  of  the  Gospel.  The 
Old  Testament  is  an  anticipatory  portrait,  of  the  which  the 
New  presents  the  after-model. 

God  had  promised  that  a  Redeemer  should  be  found  to 
expiate  the  guilt  of  Adam,  ^nd  when  judged  that  the  fitting 
moment  for  fulfilling  that  promise  had  arrived.  He  summoned 
His  Son,  the  Divine  Word,  to  be  both  the  organ  and  agent 
of  His  supreme  will.  According  to  prophecy,  the  second 
Person  of  the  blessed  Trinity  replied  to  this  appeal  in  the 
words  of  David,  "  Then  said  I,  lo,  I  come!"  The  Son  made 
Himself  immediately  the  messenger  of  the  will  of  the  Father; 


I^O  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

He  offered  Himself  as  a  sacrifice  for  the  salvation  of  the  world. 
This  act  of  self-devotion,  which -was  first  conceived  in  Heaven, 
carried  into  effect  on  earth,  and  finally  completed  where  first 
it  had  originated,  has  been  constantly  delineated  in  works 
of  art. — Pages  i6,  17,  292,  and  293,  Volume  /,  ''''Christian 
Iconography ;  or^  the  History  of  Christian  Art  in  the  Middle 
Ages  J ' '  l^y  Ihe  late  Adolphe  Napoleon  Didron^  and  translated 
from  the  French  by  E.  J.  Millington. 


NELSON  DINGLEY,  Jr., 

Governor;  Tariff  Reformer;  Congressman  from  1881  till 
Death.      (1832-1899.) 

>HE  longer  I  live  the  more  clearly  I  come  to  recognize 
that  the  Bible  is  the  unerring  chart  which  God  has 
given  to  man  to  safely  guide  him  in  the  voyage  of 
life,  and  the  indispensable  defense  of  social  order  and 
good  government ;  and  that  Christ,  the  incarnation  of  that 
wondrous  God-love,  elevates,  broadens,  vitalizes,  and  spirit- 
ualizes every  heart  that  accepts  Him  ^ 


2^^V2<: 


W.  p.  DILLINGHAM, 

^  0  rs.  United  States  Senator  from  Vermont. 

c/^  Vn^^  ask  my  opinion  of  Christ.     It  is  that  He  was 

XA    God  manifest  in   the   flesh;  a  revelation  to  us  of 

2  ^^3^  Him  in  whom  we  live,  and  move,  and  have  our 

being;  and  that  through  Him  death  is  abolished, 

and  life  and  immortality  are  brought  to  light. 


A  CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES.  I3I 

JOHN  FORREST  DILLON, 

Lawyer;  Circuit  Judge  under  President  Grant;  Author  of  Legal  Works; 
President  of  the  American  Bar  Association. 

^HE  blameless  life  and  matchless  doctrines  of  Jesus 
Christ  are  sufficient  proof  of  His  Divinity ;  they  are 
.  ^  .^  the  world's  best  inheritance  and  its  surest  hope. 

The  moral  law,  which  holds  its  dominion  by  Divine 
ordination  over  us  all,  and  from  which  evasion  or  escape  is 
impossible,  is  the  eternal  and  indestructible  sense  of  justice 
and  of  right,  written  by  God  on  the  living  tables  of  the 
human  heart,  and  revealed  in  His  Holy  Word. 


/ 


o/^/j?C^r^ 


WILLIAM  EARL  DODGE,  Jr., 

Financier  and  Philanthropist. 

HE  question  is  one  of  personal  consecration — ''what 

is  my  individual  duty  ?  "     "What  am  I  doing  as  a 

citizen  of  this  country,  for  which  Christ  died,  to  help 

on  this  great  work?  " 

We  want  not  only  to  hope  that  others  will  take  hold  and 

organize  great  works  of  charity  and  of  good,  but  we  want  to 

know  what  our  Saviour,  who  hath  redeemed  us,  and  to  whose 

cause  we  gladly  pledge  ourselves,  has  for  us  to  do.     . 

We  shall  remember  with  joy  these  days  of  blessed  instruc- 
tion, help,  and  inspiration ;  and  this  will  be  but  the  beginning 
of  a  work  which,  I  hope,  with  God's  blessing,  will  quietly  go 
through  the  land  until  every  dark  spot  is  uncovered,  until  the 
teachings  of  Christ  our  Lord  are  the  life  and  salvation  of 
our  country. — Pages  377,  407,  and  408,  ^''National  Perils  and 
Opportunities . ' ' 


132  A   CIvOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

JOHN  ADAMS  DIX, 

Major  General  and  Statesman.     (1798-1879.) 

BEIvIEVE  in  God,  and  have  entire  confidence  in 
Christ,  my  Redeemer.  I  am -at  enmity  with  no  man. 
I  have,  from  my  youth,  been  a  believer,  and  be- 
came, many  years  ago,  a  member  of  the  Church.  IVty 
mother's  affectionate  teachings  had  implanted  within  me 
grains  of  devotion  which  time  could  not  fail  to  bring  forth 
and  ripen  often. — Pag^s  281  and  17,  ^^ Memoirs ^^^  by  his  son^ 
Rev.  Morgan  Dix. 

PAUL  GUSTAVE  DORE, 

French  Artist.     (1833-1883.) 

V  you  wish  to  know  my  religion,  I  will  tell  you.  It  is 
contained  in  the  thirteenth  chapter  of  St.  Paul's  letter 
to  the  Corinthians."  Then  he  began  quoting,  and,  to 
.the  reverend  gentleman's  amazement,  recited  it  through 
from  the  beginning  to  the  end,  without  any  hesitation,  or 
missing  one  word.  When  he  had  finished,  he  turned  about 
and  said,  "  Have  I  made  any  mistakes?  and  believing  in 
that  chapter  as  I  do,  might  I  be  considered  a  Christian  ?  '^ 
The  prompt  answer  was,  "Any  person  living  up  to  that 
chapter  might  be  called  not  only  a  Christian,  but  Christian- 
issimus." — Page  306,  ''^Life  a?id  Reminiscences  of  Paul  Gus- 
tave  Dore^^^  by  Blanc e  Roosevelt. 


WILLIAM  HOWARD  DOANE, 

Composer  of  Hymn  Music  and  Philanthropist. 

AM  a  thorough  believer  in  the  blessed  Bible,  and  the 
Christianity  it  teaches.  To  me,  Jesus  Christ  is  a  per- 
sonal Saviour,  a  daily  helper,  guide,  and  friend.  The 
man  who  clings  to  His  arm  will  be  safely  led,  and  will 
continually  walk  in  the  light  of  His  smile,  and  will  be  filled 
with  joy  unspeakable.  Thrice  blessed  is  he  with  whom 
Christ  abides. 


\A>->fVr^ 


HONORABLE  MEN  OF  OUR  TIME. 


JosiAH  Gilbert  Holland, 

Page  2^2. 

Alfred  P.  Edgerton,  Sir  Edward  Bulwer-Lytton, 

Page  i}9.  Page  ^9, 

Cyrus  West   Field, 

Page  149. 

Alfred  Austin,  Joseph  Hodge  Choate, 

P<^S<^  7'  Page  83. 

John  Sherman, 

Page  409. 


A   CIvOUD   OF   WITNESSES.       *  133 

WILLIAM  EARL  DODGE, 

Financier  and  Philanthropist.     (1805-1883.) 

HRIST  died  not  only  to  open  the  prison  doors,  but  to 
s^  open  the  palace  gate,  and  give  men  everlasting  life. 
Impelled  by  this  solemn  truth,  we  should  say,  as  we 
look  and  see  men  perishing,  "Here  am  I,  send  me! 
Use  me  in  whatever  way  I  can  do  the  most  to  save  lost  sin- 
ners." A  saved  sinner  myself,  I  can  declare  that  God  desires 
not  the  death  of  the  wicked.  He  says  to  all,  "turn  ye,  why 
will  ye  die?" 

Surely  goodness  and  mercy  have  followed  us  all  the  days 
of  our  lives.  We  feel  that,  under  God,  we  owe  all  we  are  to 
the  tender,  faithful  care  of  our  godly  parents,  who,  from 
infancy,  dedicated  us  to  God,  and  by  constant  Christian 
watchfulness  and  prayer  brought  us  up  in  His  fear,  and  re- 
joiced to  see  us  in  early  youth  consecrate  ourselves  to  His 
service — both  uniting  with  the  Church  the  same  year. —  To 
his  children  at  his  golden  weddings  ''''Memorials  of  William 
E.  Dodge ^''^  by  D.  Stuart  Dodge. 


JOSEPH  NORTON  DOLPH, 

United  States  Senator,     (1835-1897.) 

BELIEVE  that  Jesus  Christ  lived  and  taught  the  fun- 
damental doctrines  of  Christianity  on  earth;  that  He 
was  sent  from  God,  delivered  the  will  of  God,  and 
was  the  Son  of  God;  that  the  Bible  contains  the 
Revelation  from  God  to  the  human  race,  a  sufficient  rule  of 
faith  and  practice  for  man  and  all  things  necessary  to  his 
salvation.  Upon  the  doctrine  of  the  Divinity  of  Christ  rests 
the  whole  fabric  of  the  Christian  faith.  If  Christ  was  only 
a  man,  however  beneficial  the  Christian  religion  may  be,  it 
is  a  myth— the  Bible  is  not  the  inspired  Word  of  God,  and 
man  is  left  in  ignorance  as  to  his  origin,  the  object  of  his 
creation,  and  his  destiny. 


134 


A  CIvOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 


JOHN  DRYDEN, 


English  Poet  Laureate.     (1631-1700.) 


THE  ATONEMENT. 

)OOK  humbly  upward ;  see  His  will  disclose 
The  forfeit  first   and  then  the  fine  imposed ; 
A  mulct  thy  poverty  could  never  pay, 
Had  not  Eternal  Wisdom  found  the  way, 
And  with  celestial  wealth  supplied  the  store  ; 
His  justice  makes  the  fine,  His  mercy  quits  the  score. 
See  God  descending  in  the  human  frame ; 
The  offended  suffering  in  the  offender's  name. 
All  thy  misdeeds  to  Him  imputed  see. 
And  all  his  righteousness  devolved  on  thee. 


INSPIRATION  OF  THE  BIBLE. 

If  on  the  Book  itself  we  cast  our  view. 
Concurrent  heathens  prove  the  story  true  ; 
The  doctrine,  miracles ;  which  must  convince, 
For  Heaven  in  them  appeals  to  human  sense ; 
And  though  they  prove  not,  they  confirm  the  cause, 
When  what  is  taught  agrees  with  nature's  laws. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


135 


WILLIAM   DRUMMOND, 

Scottish  Poet  of  Hathornden. 
(1585-1649.) 

ROM  top  of  Olivet  such  notes  did  rise 
^XgS  When  man's  Redeemer  did  ascend  the  skies. 

To  God,  who  sits  in  highest  seat, 

Glory  and  power  given  be  ; 
To  Father,  Son,  and  Paraclete, 

Who  reign  in  equal  dignity. 


ANDREW  S.  DRAPER, 

President  of  the  University  of  Illinois. 

AFFIRM  my  faith  in  the  Bible.  To  my  mind  the 
birth  of  our  Saviour  was  the  most  momentous  event 
in  civil  as  well  as  religious  history.  It  set  a  new 
force  at  work  which  has  been  bringing  the  plans  of 
kings  to  naught,  making  good  the  Divine  promise:  "Ye  shall 
know  the  truth,  and  the  truth  shall  make  you  free/* 


JOHN  WILLIAM  DRAPER, 

Chemist,  Physiologist,  Author,  and  Educator.     (1811-1882.) 

HE  Pentateuch  is  affirmed  to  have  been  written  by 

Moses,  under   the    influence    of  Divine  inspiration. 

Considered  thus,  as  a  record  vouchsafed  and  dictated 

by  the  Almighty,  it  commands  not  only  scientific  but 

universal  consent. 

"What  is  truth?"  was  the  passionate  demand  of  a  Roman 
procurator  on  one  of  the  most  momentous  occasions  in  his- 
tory. And  the  Divine  Person  who  stood  before  him,  to  whom 
this  interrogation  was  addressed,  made  no  reply — unless,  in- 


J36  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

deed,  silence  contained  the  reply. — In  Chapter  VIII ^  of  his 
^''History  of  the  Conflict  between  Science  and  Religion.''^ 

First  of  all,  the  Crusades :  There  had  been  wrenched 
from  Christendom  its  fairest  and  most  glorious  portions. 

.  .  But  perhaps  the  geographical  losses,  appalling  as 
they  were,  did  not  appear  so  painful  as  the  capture  of  the 
holy  places ;  the  birthplace  of  our  Redeemer ;  the  scene  of 
His  sufferings;  the  Mount  of  Olives  ;  the  Sea  of  Galilee;  the 
Garden  of  Gethsemane ;  Calvary;  the  Sepulchre. 

From  this  burning  ordeal  one  Book  came  out  unscathed. 
It  was  the  Bible.  It  spontaneously  vindicated  for  itself  what 
Wicklif  in  the  former  times,  and  Luther  more  lately,  had 
claimed  for  it.  And  not  only  did  it  hold  its  ground,  but  it 
truly  became  incalculably  more  powerful  than  ever  before. 
The  press  multiplied  it  in  every  language  until  there  was 
scarcely  any  cottage  in  reformed  Europe  that  did  not  possess 
a  copy. — In  Chapters  IV^  VI ^  Volume  11^''^  History  of  the  Intel- 
lectual Development  of  Europe ^^^  iy  John  W.  Draper^  Professor 
of  Chemistry  in  the  University  of  New  York. 


c/^§Y> 


NEAL  DOV/, 

Temperance   Reformer.      (1804-1897.) 


^^^^^  ESUS  CHRIST  came  into  the  world  when  it  was 
Vj  semi-barbarous,  and  among  a  people  semi-civilized, 
Vi?/^  and  yet,  without  education,  without  training  from 
any  earthly  source,  showed  from  the  very  first  and 
during  all  His  life,  without  a  moment's  weakness,  what  the 
highest,  purest  civilization  should  be.  With  all  the  culture 
and  religion  of  our  time  we  cannot  imagine  any  one  ot 
earthly  mould  so  true  as  He  to  the  duties  God  imposed  upon 
Him.  Calm,  dignified,  self-possessed,  under  conditions  so 
painful,  so  dreadful,  so  beyond  any  human  power  of  endur- 
ance, that  none  but  Divinity  itself  could  have  borne  it.  I 
have  earnest  faith  in  Him  as  my  Saviour,  and  in  the  Scrip- 
ture as  the  revelation  of  God  to  a  lost  world. 


A   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES. 


137 


ALBERT  DURER, 

German  Painter  and  Engraver.  (1471-1528.) 


StvJIvL  secular 
^V^  rulers  should 


^^  be  ca  r  e  f  ul 
these  dangerous 
times  that  they  do 
not  accept  the  se- 
duction of  men  for 
the  Word  of  God; 
for  God  will  not 
have  anything  taken 
from  His  Holy 
Word,  nor  added  to 
it. 

Listen ,  soldier  of 
Christ !  ride  forth 
beside  the  Lord 
Jesus,  defend  the 
truth,  and  win  the 
martyr's  crown! 
And  if  thou  here  below  becomest  like  thy  master,  Christ,  and 
sufferest  shame  from  lying  tongues,  and  shouldst  die  a  little 
sooner,  thou  wilt  sooner  pass  from  death  unto  life. — ^^Lt/e 
of  Albert  Diirer^^  the  Evangelist  of  Art^  by  Geo.  Wilson^  in 
''''Short  Biographies  for  the  People^''  Vol.  I. 


ANDRE    MARIE   JEAN    JACQUES   DUPIN, 

French   Lawyer  and    President  of   the  Chamber    of    Deputies  and    of   the 
cyo  Legislative  Assembly.     (1783-1865  ) 

jGyJy^^  to  myself,  Jesus  Christ  is  the  Man-God.     . 
\C^L.  God    willed    that   Jesus  should    be  clothed  in  the 
^  ^V     ^"^^^^  ^^  humanity  {et   homo  f actus    est)^    and    that 
He  should  undergo   the  lot  and  sufferings  of   hu- 
manity.    The  Son  of  God^  as  to  His  moral  state  and  holy 


138  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

Spirit,  He  was  also,  in  reality,  the  Son  of  Man^  for  the  pur- 
pose of  accomplishing  the  mission  which  He  came  upon 
earth  to  fulfill.  .  .  To  the  heathen  themselves  I  would 
say :  You  who  have  gloried  in  the  death  of  Socrates^  how 
much  must  you  have  been  struck  with  wonder  at  that  of 
Jesus  !  Ye  censors  of  the  Areopagus,  how  could  you  under- 
take to  excuse  the  Synagogue,  and  justify  the  sentence  of 
the  Hall  of  Judgment?  Philosophy  herself  has  not  hesi- 
tated to  proclaim,  and  we  repeat  with  her:  "Yes,  if  the  life 
and  death  of  Socrates  were  those  of  a  sage,  the  life  and 
death  of  Jesus  were  those  of  a  divinity." — ''''The  Trial  of 
Jesus  before  Caiphas  aitd  Pilate ^^^  by  Andre  Marie  Jean 
Jacques  Dupin^  Advocate  and  Doctor  of  Laws.  Translated 
from  the  French  by  John  Pickerings  Counselor  at  Law^  and 
President  of  the  American  Academy   of  Arts  and   Sciences, 


DORMAN  BRIDGMAN  EATON, 

Qi^-^  Lawyer  and  Civil  Service  Commissioner. 

t  2)HIL0S0PHY  asks  presumptuous  questions  concern- 
^  ^C^  ing  the  genesis  of  Christ.  Was  He  a  created  being  ? 
Was  He  divine  ?  Did  He  exist  before  the  foundation 
of  the  world  ?  Is  the  supreme  Head  of  the  Universe 
one  God  absolutely  ?  or  is  He  made  up  of  three  persons,  of 
whom  Christ  is  one?  These  questions  expelled  the  Christian 
spirit,  divided  the  followers  of  Christ,  involved  the  churches 
in  barren  and  angry  contests,  led  to  savage  persecutions  in 
the  name  of  the  Prince  of  Peace.  Yet  Christ  has  been 
judged  by  the  answers  to  such  questions.  By  reason  of 
Adam's  sin  and  fall,  they  consigned  the  whole  family  of  man 
to  eternal  perdition.  They  presented  Christ  Himself  as  equal- 
ly a  God  and  a  man  and  as  a  literal  Redeemer  from  their 
original  sin.  They  made  a  profound  mystery  of  the  incar- 
nation. They  claimed  to  prove  the  utter  incapacity  of  man  for 
any  good  thing,  and  salvation  to  be  by  the  grace  alone.    By 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  I39 

these  speculations  also  Christ  has  been  judged.  Precious  be- 
liefs and  inspiring  hopes,  springing  from  these  speculations, 
are  still  the  consolation  of  millions.  .  .  .  That  view  finds 
the  highest  possible  evidence  of  the  genesis  of  Christ,  and  of 
His  mission  in  the  world  in  His  character  and  doings  on 
earth,  as  disclosed  in  the  New  Testament — evidence  which 
would  abide  in  eternal  efficiency  even  if  the  whole  meta- 
physical theory  concerning  Him  should  be  rejected. — Chris- 
tian Register^  Boston^  December  22,  1887. 


LORD  JOHN  SCOTT  ELDON, 

Lord  High  Chancellor  of  England.     (1751-1838.) 

HE  impressions  which  I  received  in  early  youth  re- 
specting  the   doctrines    contained    in   this    volume 
have  continued  so  lively  and  strong  that  I  have  sel- 
dom engaged  in  any  important  act  without  recol- 
lecting in  what  manner  I  have  been  taught  therein. 

The  whole  Bible  scheme  of  man's  redemption  appears  to 
me  very  mainly  to  depend  upon  the  doctrine  of  the  Trinity. 
I  believe  the  doctrine  of  the  Trinity  in  Unity.  When  the 
question  is  asked,  '*Can  these  three  be  One?"  my  answer  is, 
*'The  Lord  God  knoweth— He  hath  said  it!"— /^/.  64,  258, 
Volume  11^  ' '  Life  of  Lord  Eldoii^ ' '  by  Horace  Twiss. 


ALFRED  P.  EDGERTON, 

Late  Chairman  of  the  Civil  Service  Commission.  {1813-1897.) 

.HE    Ten    Commandments,    the    Lord's    Prayer,   the 
Golden  Rule  are  infinitely  superior  to  all  the  phi- 
losophies, ancient  or  modern,  put  together.    We  and 
our  posterity  must  be  true  to  the  Christian  faith — 
the  only  revealed  religion, 


140  A   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES. 

GEORGE  MORITZ  EBERS, 

German  Egyptologist  and  Author       (1837-1898.) 

HAVE  given  years  of  study  to  the  early  youth  of 
Christianity,  particularly  in  Egypt,  and  it  affords  me 
particular  satisfaction  to  help  others  to  realize  how,  in 
Hadrian's  time,  the  pure  teaching  of  our  Saviour,  as 
yet  little  sullied  by  the  contributions  of  human  minds,  con- 
quered— and  could  not  fail  to  conquer — the  hearts  of  men. 
Side  by  side  with  the  triumphant  Faith  I  have  set  that  noble 
blossom  of  Greek  life  and  culture,  Art,  which,  in  later  ages, 
Christianity  absorbed  in  order  to  dress  herself  in  beautiful 
forms. — From  Preface  to  Volume  /,  of  ''''The  Emperor ^^  by 
George  M.  Ebers^  author  of  ^^Uarda^ 


SIR  HERBERT  EDWARDES, 

English  Major-General.     (1819-1868.) 

AM  quite  happy.  I  love  God.  I  trust  entirely  to 
Jesus.  I  put  confidence  in  Christ,  and  couldn't  do 
more  if  I  lived  a  thousand  years. 
If  I  were  called  upon  to  work  out  that  proposition 
and  prevent  that  Empire  (India)  from  being  ultimately  lost 
by  internal  rebellion,  I  know  well  what  I  should  do.  .  .  . 
I  should  open  the  Bible  wide,  and  do  what  in  me  lay  to  teach 
that  subject-people  Christian  views  of  life. — From  a  lecture 
before  the  Yoimg  Men's  Christian  Association  of  London^ 
Exeter  HalL  i860. 


LORD  ELLENBOROUGH, 

(S\  ^-^  Chief  Justice  of  England.     (1750-1818.) 


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^^  GOD,  heavenly  Father,  by  whose  providence  all 
things  were  made,  and  from  whom  all  comforts  of 
^[^  this  life,  and  the  hopes  and  expectations  of  happiness 
hereafter,  through  the  merits  of  our  Saviour  are  de- 
rived to  us,  I  humbly  offer  up  grateful  acknowledgments 
for  Thy  Divine  favor  constantly  vouchsafed  to  me.  —  Vohmte 
IV^  ' '  Lives  of  the  Chief  Justices  of  England^ ' '  by  Lord 
Campbell. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  141 

EDWARD  VI.. 

King  of  England.     (i537-i553.) 

)ORD  God,  deliver  me  out  of  this  miserable  and 
wretched  life,  and  take  me  among  the  chosen ;  how- 
"^  beit,  not  my  will  but  Thine  be  done ;  Lord,  I  com- 
mit my  spirit  to  Thee ;  yet,  for  Thy  chosen's  sake, 
send  me  life  and  health,  that  I  may  truly  serve  Thee.  O,  my 
Lord  God,  bless  my  people,  and  save  thine  inheritance.  .  . 
.  Maintain  thy  true  religion,  that  I  and  my  people  may 
praise  Thy  holy  name,  for  Jesus  Christ,  His  sake. — Dying 
prayer;  page  336,  Volume  11^  of  "  Chamber^ s  Cyclopcedia  of 
English  Literature ^^^ Acme  edition. 


OLIVER  ELLSWORTH. 

Chiof-Justice  of  the  United  States   Supreme  Court,  1796-1801. 
(1745-1807.) 

IS  extraordinary  endowments,  accomplishments  as  an 
advocate,  integrity  as  a  judge,  and  sincerity  as  a 
Christian  were  fitly  complemented  by  a  fine  personal 
presence  and  by  manners  at  once  plain,  unaffected, 
and  social. — Page 'x^^f^^  Volume  11^  ^^ Appleton'' s  Cyclopcedia  of 
American  Biography!'^ 

He  made  an  explicit  confession  of  Christianity  in  his 
youth,  and  in  all  his  intercourse  with  the  polite  and  learned 
world  he  was  not  ashamed  of  the  Gospel  of  Christ.  In  the 
midst  of  a  multitude  of  engagements  he  made  theology  a 
study,  and  attended  with  unvarying  punctuality  on  the  wor- 
ship of  the  sanctuary.  The  sage  whose  eloquence  had 
charmed  the  senate,  and  whose  decisions  from  the  bench 
were  regarded  almost  as  oracular,  sat  with  the  simplicity 
of  a  child  at  the  feet  of  Jesus,  devoutly  absorbed  in  the  mys- 
teries of  redemption.  His  religion  was  not  cold  and  heart- 
less, but  practical  and  vital.  In  his  last  illness  he  was  hum- 
ble and  tranquil.  He  expressed  the  submission,  the  views, 
and  the  consolations  of  a  Christian. — Page  500,  ''  The  En- 
cyclopcedia  of  Religious  Knowledge!''^ 


142  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

RICHARD  THEODORE  ELY, 

Professor  of  Political  Economy,  University  of  "Wisconsin ; 
Author. 

>HE  Bible  gives  something  more  than  a  scheme  of 
individual  salvation.  It  offers  the  principles  of 
that  wise  statesmanship  which  will  yet  guide  the  na- 
tions of  the  world. 
We  come  upon  this  wonderful,  this  marvelous  love  for 
man  which  Christ  taught  all  through  the  Gospel.  It  is  not 
merely  taught  by  Christ,  but  it  is  illustrated  by  Christ  in 
His  life  until  we  come  to  that  scene  on  the  cross,  when  He 
prayed,  *'  Father,  forgive  them,  for  they  know  not  what  they 
do."  It  is  in  this  duty  to  love  and  serve  our  fellows  that 
I  find  the  most  convincing  proof  of  the  divinity  of  Christ. 
I  think  it  is  this  which  reassures  me  amid  the  doubts  of  our 
time.  I  have  no  evidence  in  history  to  convince  me  that  a 
mere  man  would  have  exalted  man  as  Christ  did.  Rarely 
do  modern  philosophers,  unless  inspired  by  Christianity,  rise 
to  an  exalted  conception  of  man. 


*  The  last  paragraph  may  be  found  also  in  '*  Social  Aspects  of  Chris- 
tianity," by  Richard  T.  Ely. 


THOMAS  ERSKINE, 

Lord  Chancellor  of  England.     (1750-1823.) 

N  this  stage  of  the  proceedings  I  shall  call  for  rever- 
ence to  the  sacred  Scriptures,  not  from  their  merits, 
unbounded  as  they  are,  but  from  their  authority  in  a 
Christian  country;  not  from  the  obligations  of  con- 
science, but  from  the  rules  of  law.  For  my  own  part,  gen- 
tlemen, I  have  been  deeply  devoted  to  the  truths  of  Chris- 


A   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES.  143 

tianity,  and  my  first  belief  in  the  Holy  Gospel  is  by  no  means 
owing  to  the  prejudices  of  education,  though  I  was  relig- 
iously educated  by  the  best  of  parents,  but  arises  from  the 
fullest  and  most  continued  reflections  of  my  riper  years  and 
understanding.  It  forms  at  this  moment  the  great  consola- 
tion of  my  life,  which,  as  a  shadow,  must  pass  away;  and 
without  it,  indeed,  I  should  consider  my  long  course  of  health 
and  prosperity,  perhaps  too  long  and  uninterrupted  to  be 
good  for  any  man,  only  as  the  dust  which  the  wind  scatters, 
and  rather  as  a  snare  than  as  a  blessing.  Much,  however, 
as  I  wish  to  support  the  authority  of  the  Scriptures,  from  a 
reasonable  consideration  of  them,  I  shall  repress  the  subject 
at  present.  .  .  .  The  mysterious  incarnation  of  our 
blessed  Saviour,  which  the  "Age  of  Reason"  blasphemes  in 
words  so  wholly  unfit  the  mouth  of  a  Christian,  or  for  the  ear 
of  a  court  of  justice,  that  I  dare  not  and  will  not  give  them 
utterance,  Milton  made  the  grand  conclusion  of  "  Paradise 
I.ost." 

"  A  virgin  is  His  mother,  but  His  sire 

The  power  of  the  Most  High ;  He  shall  ascend 

The  throne  hereditary,  and  bound  His  reign 

With  earth's  wide  bounds.  His  glory  with  the  heavens." 

— From  a  speech  of  Thomas  Erskine  for  the  prosecution^  in 
the  proceedings  against  Thomas  Williams  for  publishing 
Paine^s  '"''Age  of  Reaso7t^^'^  in  the  Court  of  King^s  Bench^  be- 
fore Lord  Kenyon  and  a  special  jury ^  June  24,  1797;  pag^ 
653,  Volume  XXVI,  HoweWs  St,  Tr. 


LEONARD  EULER, 

Swiss  Mathematician.     (1707-1783.) 

HE  holy  life  of  the  apostles  and  of  the  other  primitive 
Christians,  appear  to  me  an  irresistible  proof  of  the 
truths  of  the  religion  of  Christ.  .  .  .  It  is  only 
motives,  therefore,  that  spirits  can  be  determined  to 
that  which  is  good ;  now,  what  motives  could  be  proposed  to 
the  apostles,  and  other  disciples  of  Jesus  Christ,  to  embrace  a 


144  ^   CLOUD    OF    WITNKSSKS. 

virtuous  life,  more  powerful  than  the  instructions  of  their 
Divine  Master,  His  miracles.  His  sufferings,  His  death  and 
resurrection,  of  which  they  were  witnesses.  All  these  start- 
ling events,  united  to  a  doctrine  the  most  sublime,  must 
have  excited  in  their  hearts  the  most  fervent  love  and  the 
most  profound  veneration  for  God,  whom  they  could  not  but 
consider  and  adore  as  at  once  their  heavenly  Father,  and  the 
absolute  Ivord  of  the  universe. — Pages  380-382,  Volume  /, 
^^ Family  Library  Letters  of  Euler  on  different  subjects  in 
Natural  Philosophy^  addressed  to  a  German  Princess,  with 
notes ^  and  a  life  of  Euler ^ ' '  by  David  Brewster. 


SIR  CHARLES  A.  ELLIOTT, 

British  Statesman  ;  late  Lieutenant-Governor  of  Bengal. 

HE  Bible  is  the  chief  instrument  for  the  general  in- 
crease of  the  Christian  faith  in  India;  it  is  the  ham- 
mer with  which  to  attack  the  hard  rock  of  ignorance 
and  atheism;  and  to  a  great  extent  it  is  thus  scat- 
tering the  seed  for  a  future  harvest  which,  I  trust,  we  shall 
see  springing  up  and  garnered  to  the  glory  of  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ. — Declared  before  the  British  and  Foreign  Bible  Soci- 
ety^ at  Exeter  Hall^  May  5,  1897. 


JEREMIAH  EVARTS,* 

Philanthropist.     (1781-1831.) 

ERE  on  this  sea  I  consecrate  myself  to  God  as  my 
chief  good ;  to  Him  as  my  heavenly  Father,  infinitely 
kind  and  tender  of  His  children ;  to  Him  as  my  loving 
and  merciful  Redeemer,  by  whose  blood  alone  I  hope 
for  salvation;  to  Him  as  the  Beneficent  Renewer  and  Sanc- 
tifier  of  the  saved.    I  implore  the  forgiveness  of  my  numerous 

*  Father  of  William  M.  Evarts,  whose  testimony  follows. 


A   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES.  145 

and  aggravated  transgressions;  and  1  ask  that  my  remaining 
time  and  strength  may  be  employed  for  the  glory  of  God, and 
for  the  goo  1  of  His  creatures. — Pages  ^1^  and  ^16^  ''The 
EncyclopcBciia  of  Religious  Knowledge. ' ' 


WILLIAM  MAXWELL  EVARTS, 

Lawyer  and  Statesman. 

HE  great  mass  of  our  countrymen  today  find  in  the 
Bible — the  Bible  in  their  worship,  the  Bible  in  their 
schools,  the  Bible  in  their  households — the  sufficient 
lessons  of  the  fear  of  God  and  the  love  of  man  which 
makes  them  obedient  servants  to  the  free  institutions  of  their 
country.  — See  his  Oration^ ' '  What  the  Age  Owes  to  America^ '  * 
delivered  at  Philadelphia^  July  4,  1876. 

Religion  takes  care,  then,  of  the  people;  makes  them  men; 
makes  them  loyal  and  faithful  to  duty,  to  God  and  to  society. 
.  .  .  Thus  the  religion  which,  in  its  original  and  in  its 
most  distinct  condition  as  a  power  in  human  affairs,  united 
man  in  duty  to  God,  yet  finds  this  solemn  instruction  of  one 
of  the  Apostles:  "If  any  man  love  not  his  brother  whom  he 
hath  seen,  how  can  he  love  God  whom  he  hath  not  seen?" 
For  it  is  the  range  and  influence  in  human  affairs  that  brings 
our  duty  nearest  in  obligation  to  our  Saviour  when  we  accept 
the  brotherhood  of  man  as  our  duty  to  God. — Extracts  from 
an  Address  before  the  Yowig  Meii^ s  Christian  Association  of 
Baltimore^  January  27,  1887. 


EUGENE  FIELD,* 

Poet  and  Journalist.     (1850-1895.) 

ING,  Christmas  bells ! 
Say  to  the  earth  this  is  the  morn 
c  Whereon  our  Saviour-King  was  born; 
Sing  to  all  men — the  bond,  the  free, 
The  rich,  the  poor,  the  high,  the  low, 
The  little  child  that  sports  in  glee, 


146  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

The  aged  folk  that  tottering  go, 
Proclaim  the  morn 
That  Christ  is  born, 

That  saveth  them  and  saveth  me ! 


Sing,  O  my  heart ! 
Sing  them  in  rapture  this  dear  morn, 
Whereon  the  blessed  Prince  is  born  I 
And  as  the  song  shall  be  of  love. 
So  let  my  deeds  be  charity. 

By  the  dear  Lord  that  rules  above, 
By  Him  that  died  upon  the  tree. 
By  the  fair  morn 
Whereon  is  born 
The  Christ  that  saved  all  and  me ! 

*I  would  not  exchange  for  any  amount  of  money  the  acquaintance  with 
the  Bible  which  was  drummed  into  me  when  a  boy. — Ladies'  Home  Journal. 


LUCIUS   FAIRCHILD, 

General,  Governor,  Diplomat,  and  Commander-in-Chief 
o  of  the  G.  A.  R. 

aHRIST  and  the  Bible  are  the  great  moral,  intellect- 
<^  ual,  and  spiritual  forces  for  the  good  of  the  nations 
>^_£c)  and  the  salvation  of  the  races,  when  properly  under- 
stood and  appreciated. 


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SIR  THOMAS   FAIRFAX, 

Parliamentary  General  and  Commander-in-Chief  During 
the  Civil  "Wars.     (1611-1671.) 

E  made  his  will  in  1667,  and  this  is  the  first  clause : 
'^  In  the  name  of  God,  amen,  I,  Thomas  Lord  Fair- 
fax, Baron  of  Camroone,  being  something  infirm  in 
body,  but  of  perfect  memory  (blessed  be  God),  do 
make  and  ordain  my  last  will  and  testament  in  manner  and 
form  following :  First,  I  commit  my  soul  unto  Almighty  God 
who  created  it,  but  it  being  by  original  corruption  made  an 
unfit  offering   for    His  pure    and    Divine   Majesty,  I    hope, 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


m 


through  the  mercies  and  by  the  merits  of  the  precious  blood 
of  Jesus  Christ,  my  only  Saviour  and  Redeemer  (in  whom  I 
trust),  He  will  make  me  a  fit  partaker  of  that  glorious  inher- 
itance which  He  hath  prepared  for  all  those  who  believe  in 
Him." — Page  440,  "  Life  of  Great  Lord  Fairfax^  Comma^ider- 
in- Chief  of  the  Army  of  the  Parliament  of  England^''  by  Clem- 
ents R.  Markham, 


MICHAEL  FARADAY, 

English  Chemist  and  Naturalist.     (1791-1867.) 

T  is  permitted  to  the 
Christian  to  think  of 
death ;  he  is  even  rep- 
resented   as    praying 
that  God  would  teach  him 
to  number  his  days.    Words 
are  given  him:  "Thanks  be 
unto  God,  who  giveth  us  the 
victory   through   our    Lord 
Jesus  Christ."    And  though 
the  thought  of  death  brings 
the  thought  of  judgment,  it 
also  brings  to  the  Christian 
the    thought   of    Him   who 
died,  who  rose  again  for  the  justification  of  those  who  be- 
lieve in  Him. —  Walter  Jerrold^  in  ^^ Michael  Faraday^  Man 
of  Science ^^^  page  120. 

The  Christian  who  is  taught  by  God  (by  His  Word  and 
Holy  Spirit)  finds  his  guide  in  the  Word  of  God,  and  com- 
mits the  keeping  of  his  soul  in  the  hands  of  God.  He  looks 
for  no  assurance  beyond  what  the  Word  of  God  can  give 
him;  and  if  his  mind  is  troubled  by  the  cares  and  fears 
which  may  assail  him,  he  can  go  nowhere  but  to  the  throne 
of  grace  and  to  Scripture.     No  outward  manifestation  can 


148  A  CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

give  either  instruction  or  assurance  to  him,  nor  can  any  out- 
ward opposition  or  trouble  diminish  his  confidence  for  Christ 
crucified,  to  the  Jews  a  stumbling-block  and  to  the  Greeks 
foolishness ;  but  to  them  who  are  called,  Christ  the  power  of 
God  and  the  wisdom  of  God.  The  Christian  religion  is  a 
revelation,  and  that  revelation  is  the  Word  of  God. — George 
Wilson^  in  *'  Short  Biographies  for  the  People^^  Volume  IV. 


DAVID  GLASGOW  FARRAGUT, 

Admiral.     (1801-1870.) 

.HE  frequency  of  religious  sentiment  in  his  letters 
seems  somewhat  remarkable  when  we  consider  that 
he  was  not  a  professed  Christian  till  late  in  life.  It 
was  probably  the  result  of  his  early  training  by  his 
mother,  which,  though  she  died  when  he  was  young,  must 
have  made  an  impression  that  he  never  lost.  When  he  was 
dangerously  ill  in  Chicago  he  desired  to  have  a  clergyman 
called,  saying:  ''He  must  be  my  pilot  now!"  He  once  re- 
marked, when  speaking  of  navigating  a  ship,  that  he  "never 
felt  so  near  his  Master  as  he  did  when  in  a  storm,  knowing 
that  on  his  skill  depended  the  safety  of  so  many  lives." — 
Page  548,  ''''Life  and  Letters  of  Admiral  D.  G.  Farragut^'' 
by  his  son^  Loyall  Farragut, 


JOHN  VILLIERS  FARWELL, 

9  Financier  and  Philanthropist. 

Christ  is  the  "Alpha  and  Omega"  of  all  that  is  worth 
\^  living  for,  here  or  hereafter — "the  bright  morning 
^aQ^  star"  of  all  man's  hopes.  Without  His  life,  death, 
resurrection,  and  ascension,  human  existence  would 
be  an  enigmatical  farce,  nay,  a  dreadful  tragedy,  without  ex- 
cuse, if  a  God  of  justice  is  his  Maker.  The  Bible  is  an 
electric  lighthouse  on  the  two  bleak  shores  of  time  to  re- 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  149 

veal  Jesus  Christ  as  the  inspiration  of  our  hopes  in  the 
beginning,  to  be  the  fruition  of  them  at  the  end  of  the  voy- 
age,— if  so  be  that  they  are  worthy  to  ravish  a  soul  created 
in  the  image  of  his  Maker. 


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CYRUS  WEST  FIELD. 

Projector  of  the  Atlantic  Cable.     (1819-1892.) 

^  tJTY  brother  Cyrus  was  the  son  of  a  New  England  min- 

.  ^JL  ister,  and  never  departed  from  the  way  of  his  father. 

^'^><^  In  all  the  great  crises  of  his  life,  upon  land  or  sea, 

when  most  men  would  have  sunk  in  utter  despair, 

nothing  kept  him  up  but  faith  in  his  father's  Saviour,  and  in 

that  faith  he  lived  and  died. — Henry  M.  Field  to  S.  A.  N. 


HENRY  FIELDING, 

English  Novelist.     (1707-1754.) 


NOW  read  over  the  works  of  Aristotle  and  Plato,  with 
the  rest  of  those  inestimable  treasures  which  ancient 
Greece  hath  bequeathed  to  the  world.  To  these  I 
added  another  study,  compared  to  which  all  the  phi- 
losophy taught  by  the  wisest  heathens  is  little  better  than  a 
dream,  and  is,  indeed,  as  full  of  vanity  as  the  silliest  jester 
ever  pleased  to  represent  it.  This  is  that  Divine  wisdom 
which  is  alone  to  be  found  in  the  Holy  Scriptures ;  for  these 
impart  to  us  the  knowledge  and  assurance  of  things  much 
more  worthy  our  attention  than  all  which  this  world  can 
offer  to  our  acceptance  of  things  which  Heaven  itself  hath 
condescended  to  reveal  to  us,  and  to  the  smallest  knowledge 
of  which  the  highest   human  wit,    unassisted,  could  never 


150  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

ascend.  I  began  to  think  all  the  time  I  had  spent  with  the 
best  heathen  writers  was  little  more  than  labor  lost ;  for  how- 
ever pleasant  and  delightful  their  lessons  may  be,  or  however 
adequate  to  the  right  regulation  of  our  conduct  with  respect 
to  this  world,  yet,  when  compared  with  the  glory  revealed  in 
the  Scripture,  their  highest  documents  will  appear  as  trifling, 
and  of  as  little  consequence  as  the  rules  by  which  children 
regulate  their  childish  little  games  and  pastimes. — ""Philoso- 
phy and  Christianity, " 


GUILLAUME  LOUIS  FIGUIER, 

French  Physician,  Chemist,  Author,  and  Scientist. 

lET  US  listen  to  the  words  of  this  inspired  writer:  "And 
God  said,  Let  us  make  man  in  our  image,  after  our 
'^  likeness:  and  let  them  have  dominion  over  the  fish 
^  of  the  sea,  and  over  the  fowl  of  the  air,  and  over  the 
cattle,  and  over  all  the  earth,  and  over  every  creeping  thing 
that  creepeth  upon  the  earth.  So  God  created  man  in  His 
own  image,  in  the  image  of  God  created  He  him;  male  and 
female  created  He  them." — Page  /\6()^  ''The  World  Before 
the  Deluge^ ' '  by  Louis  Figiiier. 


A.  H.  FETTEROLF,* 

President  of  Girard  College. 


HEERFUIvLY  and  unqualifiedly  I  am  a  friend  to 
Christianity  and  its  Book.  My  belief  also  extends 
to  the  Divinity  of  Jesus  Christ. 

*  This  affirmation  is  especially  forcible  for  the  reason  the  will  of 
Stephen  Girard  forbids  :  "  Any  clergyman  to  be  admitted  withm  the  prem- 
ises of  said  College."  His  idea  was :  "  To  keep  the  tender  minds  of  the 
orphans  from  the  excitement  which  clashing  doctrine?  and  sectarian  con- 
troversy are  apt  to  produce."  Though  no  minister  is  allowed  inside  its 
walls,  daily  worship  and  religious  instruction  are  a  part  of  the  education. 
The  Bible  is  read,  hymns  are  sung,  and  discourses  by  the  President  or 
some  lavman  are  delivered.  Girard  College  is  not,  as  claimed,  the  child 
of  infidelity.  No  University  in  Christendom  was  ever  founded  by  a  skeptic 
or  a  body  of  skeptics—  The  Author. 


DISTINGUISHHD    BRITONS   OF    TO-DAY. 


LORD   NORTHBROOK, 
Page  ^40. 
LORD  HALSBURY,  FRIEDERICH  MAX  MULLER, 

Page  206.  Page  333. 

ARTHUR  J.  BALFOUR, 
Page  20. 
MATTHEW  ARNOLD,  SIR  M.  MONIER  WILLIAMS. 

Page  18.  Page  J 06. 

SIR  WILLIAM  MUIR, 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  15I 

SIR  EDMUND  ROBERT  FREMANTLE 

British  Admiral. 

HAVE  no  hesitancy  in  saying  that  I  believe  entirely 
in  the  divinity  of  Christ,  and  in  the  Bible  as  the  only 
divine  rule  of  life,  the  efficacy  of  which  is,  I  hold, 
proved  by  the  fact  that  those  nations  which  conform 

to  the  purest  forms  of  the  Christian  religion  are  the  most 

advanced  in  progress  and  civilization. 


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-{fZ^cau^euU^C^ 


CLINTON   BOWEN   FISKE, 

Lawyer  and  General,      (1828-1890.) 

T  is  so  Strange  that  I  should  be  cut  down  in  the  midst 
of  my  life-work.  There  seems  so  much  to  do,  and  I 
have  felt  that  the  few  years  allotted  to  me  could  be 
spent  in  better  service  for  God.  May  He  keep  and 
guide  us,  no  wanderers  lost,  the  list  all  unbroken,  to  sing  the 
song  of  redemption  through  Jesus  Christ,  where  there  shall 
be  no  sickness,  no  sorrow,  no  death  and  no  tears.  —  Christian 
Statesman^  July  24,  1890. 


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HAMILTON   FISH, 

Governor,  United  States  Senator,  Secretary  of  State  under  President 

Grant,  March  11,  1869-March  12,  1877,  and  President  of 

the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati.     (1808-1893.) 

E  often  gave  dinners  in  honor  of  distinguished  guests. 
On  one  of  these  occasions  a  certain  politician,  a  fa- 
mous story-teller,  took  the  liberty  to  speak  irrever- 
ently of  the  Church  and  of  Christianity.  Mr.  Fish 
at  once  checked  his  conversation  with  the  reprimand,  "  Par- 
don me,  but  I  must  request  you  to  desist.  I  firmly  believe 
in  Jesus  Christ  as  the  Saviour  of  the  world;  of  His  Church 
I  am  a  member;  in  my  house  I  have  tried  to  honor  Him, 
and  in  His  faith  I  expect  to  die ;  and  it  is  painful  to  me  to 


152  A   CIvOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

hear  you  speak  in  this  way." — The  Watchman^  September  21, 
1893,  and  verified  by  Nicholas  Fish^  son  of  Hamilton  Fish^  as 
''''quite  in  keeping  with  my  father^ s  Christian  faith  and  char- 
acter!''' 


RICHARD  FLETCHER, 

Lawyer;  Judge  of  Massachusetts  Supreme  Court,  and  Congressman. 

(1788-1869.) 


jGYA^'^  last  I  have  found  rest.     I  look  back  with  gratitude 
"^  I/tA^  to  that  moment  when  I  was  permitted  to  be  buried 


*^  {oy  with  Christ  in  baptism,  and  as  I  have  realized  the 
glorious  import  of  that  rite,  I  have  wondered  that 
every  Christian  should  not  long  ago  go  down  thus  into  the 
water  and  die,  and  rise  again  in  the  likeness  of  Christ. — 
Page  213,  of  ^^ American  Christian  Rulers ^^^  by  Edward  J, 
Giddings. 

SOLOMON  FOOT, 

United  States  Senator,  1851-1866.     (1802-1866.) 

.OR  years  I  have  daily  read  the  Bible  in  the  presence 
)J^J^  of  my  wife  ;  but  when  T  have  seen  her  seeking  her 
God  in  prayer,  so  habitually  and  earnestly,  I  have 
felt  that  we  ought  to  be  united  in  it.  My  father  and 
mother  were  both  devoted  Christians,  and  I  was  instructed 
in  childhood  in  the  lessons  of  the  Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ. 
I  have  never  doubted  from  that  day  to  this  the  truth  of  those 
teachings.  I  know  and  feel  that  I  am  a  sinner.  I  believe 
that  Christ  was  made  an  atonement  sufficient  for  all  men, 
and  that  this  atonement  is  the  only  ground  of  salvation  to 
human  beings.  I  am  convinced  that  none  will  be  saved  by 
works  of  righteousness  which  they  have  done.  L  have  been 
thinking  much  of  these  two  lines  repeated  the  other  day : 

•'  Here,  Lord,  I  give  myself  away, 
'Tis  all  that  I  can  do." 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  153 

I  begin  to  understand  that  this  comprehends  all,  and  I  am 
willing  to  lean  on  Jesus  Christ  as  my  Saviour  and  Friend. — 
Interview  with  Doctor  Byron  Sunderland^  Washington^  D.  C. 


ANDREW  HULL  FOOTE, 

Rear- Admiral.     (1806-1863.) 

HEN  in  Siam,  he  invited  the  royal  dignitaries  to 
dine  on  shipboard.  As  they  sat  down,  the  Ad- 
miral, as  was  his  custom,  asked  the  blessing.  The 
king,  in  surprise,  said  that  he  thought  only  mis- 
sionaries did  that.  ''True,"  replied  the  Admiral,  ''but  every 
Christian  is  a  missionary." 

He  was  a  man  of  a  high  type  of  Christian  character,  with 
most  genial  and  loveable  traits,  but  uncompromisingly  firm 
in  his  principles,  especially  in  regard  to  temperance  reform 
in  the  navy,  where  he  was  the  means  of  abolishing  the  spirit 
ration.  He  was  truly  a  pious  man,  severely  an  honest  man, 
and  a  philanthropist  of  the  first  order. —  Volume  11^^^ Apple- 
ton^  s   CyclopcBdia  of  American  Biography.^'* 


JAMES  DAVID  FORBES, 

Scottish  Physicist.     (1809-1868.) 

NOW  resolved  to  devote  a  more  definite  time  before 
going  to  bed  for  reading  the  Bible,  which  shall  include 
a  short  but  clear  self-examination. 

Keep  from  me  a  vain  and  overbearing  spirit;  let 
me  have  a  thorough  sense  of  my  own  ignorance  and  weak- 
ness; and  keep  me  through  all  trials  and  troubles  of  a  transi- 
tory state  in  body  and  soul  unto  everlasting  life,  for  Jesus 
Christ's  sake.     Amen. 

On  the  20th  of  September  we  reached  our  own  comfortable 
house,  in  Park  Place,  for  which  I  thanked  God  humbly  and 


154  A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

sincerely.  O  God,  who  has  visited  us  with  many  trials,  and 
led  us  like  the  Israelites  of  old  from  place  to  place,  without 
any  certain  abode,  bless,  we  beseech  Thee,  our  return  home, 
and  mercifully  grant  that  the  afflictions  and  anxieties  of  the 
long  probation  may  bear  fruit  in  a  more  self-denying  and 
godly  life,  and  that  we  may  have  our  hearts  fixed  on  a  more 
abiding  resting-place,  eternal  in  the  heavens,  for  Jesus  Christ's 
sake.     Amen. — ^^Famous  Men^'*''  by  H.  A.  Page. 


CHARLES  FOSTER, 

Governor;  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  under  President 
Harrison. 

BELIEVE  the  Bible  to  be  an  inspired  Book— God's 
revelation  to  man;  and  in  the  Divinity  of  Jesus  Christ. 
I  also  believe  that  the  Holy  Scriptures  teach, 
through  the  atonement  of  our  Saviour,  an  eternal 
salvation.  Faith  in  "Christ  and  the  Bible"  is  "more 
precious  than  gold  that  perisheth,  though  it  be  tried  with 
fire." 


JOHN  WATSON  FOSTER, 

<^^9     Secretary  of  State  under  President  Harrison  ;  Diplomat. 

JSyJxI'^    the    Eleventh   International   Christian  Endeavor 

\t^^  Convention,  held  in  Madison.  Square,   New  York, 

^  (v    J^ly  7-1O)  1892,  he  made  this  response:     "I  count 

myself  fortunate  in  being  in  New  York  to-day,  and 

in  having  the  opportunity  of  drawing  new  inspiration  for 

duty  by  contact  with  this  great  army  of  young  soldiers  of 

Christ.     We  hear  much,  from  certain  quarters,  in  this  day 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  1 55 

about  the  decay  of  evangelical  religion,  and  of  the  growth 
of  agnosticism  and  the  various  forms  of  disbelief  which  are 
to  sweep  off  the  earth  our  Bibles  and  our  Christianity. 
Would  that  these  critics  might  stand  in  my  place  to-night! 
They  might  be  led  to  believe  that  faith  in  a  risen  Saviour 
and  in  an  inspired  Word  of  God  were  neither  dead  nor 
dying  in  this  land — this  Christian  land,  which  owes  all  that 
is  greatest  and  best  in  its  past  history  and  in  its  present 
attainments  to  this  religion." 


ORSON  SQUIRE  FOWLER, 

Phrenologist.     (1809-1887.) 

'T  has  always  seemed  to  me  that  the  entire  thought  and 
design  of  the  Bible  is  to  teach  salvation  by  Christ. 

Christ,  too,  who  most  needs  this  prerequisite,  has  re- 
ceived the  homage  of  all  Christendom  and  will  do  so 
forever,  not  because  of  personal  beauty  or  strength,  nor  of 
His  animal  propensities,  or  aristocratic  observances,  but 
chiefly  because  of  His  moral  virtues.  Religion  was  His 
crown,  as  it  is  that  of  His  followers.  .  .  .  How  many 
men  and  women  have  been  completely  revolutionized  by  this 
religion  ?  Paul  was  changed  from  a  persistent  persecutor  to 
a  defender  of  *' Christ  crucified.'' — Pages  924,  779,  ''''Human 
Science^  or^  Phrenology  and  Self-  Culture^  ^^  by  O.  S.  Fowler, 


EDWARD  FIELD, 

Member  of  Parliament  since  1885;  late  British  Admiral. 

NEVER  knew  sailors  to  turn  a  deaf  ear  to  the  words 
of  the  Divine  Book.  They  are  always  glad  to  receive 
the  messengers  of  the  Gospel  of  Christ.  Many ^  of 
them  are  brothers  of  our  Saviour's  earthly  compan- 
ions, seamen  of  Galilee;  God-fearing  men  who  are  exercis- 
ing a  marvelous  influence  for  Christianity. — ""Words  on  the 
Waters,''  July,  1887. 


156  A   CIvOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

FRIEDRICH  HEINRICH  KARL  FOUQUE, 

German  Poet  and  Novelist. 
(1777-1843.) 

THOUSAND  years  have  fleeted, 
C^       And,  Saviour,  still  we  vSee 
(^   Thy  deed  of  love  repeated 
On  all  who  come  to  Thee. 
As  he  who  sat  benighted. 

Afflicted,  poor,  and  blind, 
So  now  Thy  word  is  plighted — 
Joy,  light,  and  peace  I  find. 


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JOHN  HENRY  FUSELI, 

Swiss  Painter  and  Writer  in  England.     (1741-1825.) 

SELDOM  take  up  the  Bible  to  read  without  shedding 
tears.  What  beautiful  things  are  in  this  Book!  It 
is  an  exquisite  Book.  ...  I  believe  in  the  res- 
urrection. The  resurrection  of  Jesus  Christ  is  as  well 
authenticated  as  any  other  historical  fact. — Pa^^e  392,  Vol- 
ume /,  ' '  Lz/e  and  Writings  of  John  Henry  Fuseli^ ' '  by 
John  Knowles. 


SIR  ROBERT  FOWLER, 

Member  of  ParHament. 

E  meet  here  as  Christians,  who  on  minor  mattcx^s 
may  differ  from  one  another,  but  who  are  all 
united  in  the  feeling  that  there  is  only  one  Name 
under  heaven  whereby  we  can  be  saved,  and  that 
is  the  Name  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  We  are  all  united  in 
our  anxiety  to  do  what  we  can  to  spread  Christ's  Gospel  upon 
the  earth  ;  and  I  know  of  no  more  effectual  means  of  doing 
it  than  by  the  circulation  of  that  Word  that  He  has  pleased 
to  give  us. — ''^ Bible  Society  Reporter ^^^  J^^J^^"^  1886,  London. 


A  CLOUD  OF  WITNESSES. 

CHARLES  JAMES  FOX, 

English  Statesman  and  Orator.     (1749-1806.) 


15;^ 


ij^'v 


IS   biographer   tells 

this    story    of    his 

death-bed  scene: 

"There  was  the 
pious  resignation  of  a 
Christian,  who  fearlessly 
abandons  his  fleeting  spirit 
to  a  merciful  Deity,  visible 
throughout  the  day — the 
unbeliever  who  came  to 
scoff  must  have  remained 
to  pray.  It  was  now  that 
Mr.  Fox  gathered  the  fruits  of  his  glorious  life ;  his  depar- 
ture was  unruffled  by  remorse — he  had  sacrificed  everything 
that  was  personal  to  his  country's  good,  and  found  his  last 
moments  blessed  by  the  reflection  that  his  e Ports  had  been 
conformable  to  the  religion  he  professed." — '^ Lives  of  Emi- 
nent and  Illustrious  Englishmen ^^^  by  George  Alfred  Cun- 
ningham. 


SIR  PHILIP  FRANCIS,* 

British  Statesman.     (1740-1818.) 

.HE  internal  evidence  of  the  Christian  religion  is 
greater  than  the  external.  In  the  matter  of  external 
evidence,  other  religions  may  compete  with  the 
Christian ;    but    in    purity,     wisdom,  and    power  of 

cleansing  the  human  heart,  it  is  alike  original   and  supreme. 

One  of  its  great  characteristics  is  its  opposition  to  the  mon- 

*  His  biographers  are  firmly  convinced  of  his  identity  with  "Junius," 
and  bring  a  great  body  of  circumstantial  proof  in  support  of  their  belief. 


1^3  A   CI.OUD   OF    WITNESSES. 

ster  vices  of  humanity.  What  a  lesson  for  the  arrogant  and 
proud  man  is  the  constant  humility  and  gentleness  of  our 
Saviour,  who  when  most  asserting  His  power  calls  Himself 
/ke  Son  of  Man.  .  .  The  doctrines  of  Christ  were  evi- 
dently of  the  practical  kind.  He  prescribed  no  forms,  no 
prayers  but  one ;  no  articles  of  belief  except  the  Divine 
authority  for  His  mission. — ^^Lz/e  of  Sir  Philip  Francis ^^^  Vol 
ume  11.^  page  419,  by  foseph  Parkes. 


THEODORE  FRELINGHUYSEN, 

Lawyer,  United  States  Senator,  Chancellor  of  the  University  of 

New  York  1839-1850 ;  President  of  Rutgers  College, 

1850  until  Death.     (1787-1861.) 

ET  us  look  away  to  the  brighter  and  better  prospects 
and  surer  hopes  in  the  promise  and  consolations  of 
V^  the  Gospel  of  our  Saviour.  I  pray,  my  honored  sir, 
that  your  heart  may  seek  this  blessed  refuge,  stable 
as  the  everlasting  hills,  and  let  this  be  the  occasion  to  prompt 
an  earnest,  prayerful,  and,  the  Lord  grant  it  may  be,  a  joyful 
search  after  the  truth  as  it  is  in  Christ  Jesus. — Correspond- 
ence with  Henry  Clay  after  failure  of  election  to  the  Presi- 
dency. 

The  Bible  has  done  it,  sir  !  Seal  up  this  one  Volume  and 
in  a  half  century  all  these  hopes  would  wither  and  these 
prospects  perish  forever.  These  sacred  temples  would  crum- 
ble or  become  the  receptacles  of  pollution  and  crime.  .  . 
The  influence  of  this  sacred  Volume  alone  can  achieve  it. 
— Delivered  when  President  of  American  Bible  Society^  1846- 
186 1. 

THE  RIGHT  HONORABLE  SIR 
EDWARD  FRY, 

Late  Judge  of  High  Court  of  England;  Lord  Justice  of  Appeal. 

THANK  God  through  Jtsus  Christ  our  Lord  and  Sav- 
iour for  that  restoration  which  has  been  effected  through 
grace  to  that  pristine  state  of  inward  harmony  and 
peace  from  whicli   Adam    fell    ])y  transgression. — See 

his   Essays,     ''On    the  Accordance  of  Christianity    with  the 

Nature  of  God.'' 


A  CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


159 


BENJAMIN    FRANKLIN, 

Statesman  and  Philosopher.     (1706-1790.) 

ERE  is  my  creed:     I 

believe  in  one  God, 

the    Creator    of    the 

Universe;  that  He 
governs  it  by  His  provi- 
dence ;  that  He  ought  to  be 
worshiped;  that  the  most 
acceptable  service  we  can 
render  Him  is  doing  good  to 
others;  that  the  soul  of  man 
is  immortal,  and  will  be 
treated  with  justice  in  an- 
other  world    respecting    his 

conduct  in  this.  As  to  Jesus  of  Nazareth,  I  think  His  sys- 
tem of  morals,  as  He  left  them  to  us,  the  best  the  world  ever 
saw,  or  is  likely  to  see. — ''Complete  Works  of  Benjamin 
Franklin^ ' '  by  John  Bigelow, 

The  longer  I  live  (eighty-one  years  now)  the  more  con- 
vincing the  proofs  I  see  of  this  truth,  that  God  governs  the 
affairs  of  men.  And  if  a  sparrow  can  not  fall  to  the  ground 
without  His  notice,  is  it  probable  that  an  empire  can  rise 
without  His  aid?  We  have  been  assured,  sir,  in  the  sacred 
writings,  that  '*  Except  the  Lord  build  the  house,  they  labor 
in  vain  who  build  it."  I  firmly  believe  this;  I  also  believe 
that  without  His  concurring  aid  we  shall  proceed  in  this  po- 
litical building  no  better  than  the  builders  of  Babel. 
I  beg,  therefore;  to  move  that  henceforth  prayers,  imploring- 
the  assistance  of  Heaven  and  its  blessings  on  our  delibera- 
tions, be  held  in  this  assembly  every  morning  before  we 
proceed  to  business,  and  that  one  of  our  clergy  be  requested 
to  officiate  in  that  service.  — Delivered  at  the  Convention  for 
Framing  the  Constitution  of  the  United  States^  ^1^1  *  Volume 
J  I,  '' Bancrofts  History  of  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States.'' 


l6o  A   CI.OUD   OF    WITNESSES. 

SIR  BARTLE  FRERE, 

Late  Governor  of  Bombay.     (1815-1884.) 

BELIEVE  there  is  no  part  of  India  in  which  the 
power  of  Christian  preaching  to  win  Fetish  worship- 
ers from  evil  deities  to  the  pure  religion  of  Christ  has 
not  been  abundantly  manifested.  .  .  .  Missionary 
efforts  owe  their  success  to  something  which  all  preachers  of 
the  Gospel  hold  in  common — the  great,  simple  doctrines  of 
our  Saviour  which  all  believe — the  plain,  broad  precepts  of 
Christianity  which  all  teach.  ...  I  assure  you,  what- 
ever may  be  told  to  the  contrary,  the  teachings  of  Christian- 
ity among  160  millions  of  civilized,  industrious  Hindoos  and 
Mohammedans  in  India  is  effecting  changes,  moral,  social, 
political,  which,  for  extent  and  rapidity  of  results,  are  far 
more  extraordinary  than  anything  you  or  your  fathers  have 
witnessed  in  modern  Europe.  .  .  .  Buddhism  may 
evolve  a  high  morality,  but  it  has  nothing  to  offer  mankind 
which  comes  so  home  to  the  instincts  of  all  humanity  as  the 
Christian  doctrine  of  the  resurrection  of  the  body  and  life 
everlasting  in  union  with  a  glorified  body. — From  a  Lecture 
to  the  Christian  Evidence  Society^  London^  ^^Christianity 
Suited  to  all  Forms  of  Civilization. ' ' 


^ 


FREDERICK  III., 

(FREDERICK  CHARLES  NICHOLAS.) 

King  of  Prussia  and  Emperor  of  Germany.     (1831-1888.) 

S  long  as  I  live  I  shall  never  forget  this  first  evening 
at  Jerusalem,  as  I  watched  the  sun  set  in  the  still- 
'^yj-  ness  which  is  always  solemn  as  it  settles  over  na- 
^3  T  ture.  Drawn  away  from  earth,  the  soul  seemed  able 
to  linger  undisturbed  upon  the  thought  which  must  thrill 
through  every  Christian  as  he  surveys  the  scenes  on  which 
the  great  work  of  our  salvation  was  consummated.  To  be  in 
such  a  place,  and  there  read  the  familiar  passages  of  the 
Holy  Gospels,  is  a  religious  service  itself. — Page  \\2  of 
*'  The  History  of  the  Germaft  People^  from  the  Earliest  Times 
to  the  Accession  of  IVilliaifi  11.^'*''  by  Hermann  Lieb. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  l6l 

FREDERICK  WILLIAM  IV., 

King  of  Prussia.     (1795-1861.) 

HE  Day  of  the  Transfiguration  of  our  Lord,  August 
6,  1 85 1.      Above  my  tomb  shall  be  placed  an  oblong 
slab  of  white  marble.     There  shall  be  engraven  upon 
it  the  monogram  of  Christ,  with  this  inscription : 
Here  Hes  in  God,  his  Saviour,  with  the  hope  of 
a  bhssful  resurrection  and  a  merciful  judgment, 
depending  solely  on  the  merits  of  Jesus  Christ  our 
Divine  Redeemer,  the  late 

Frederick  William  IV.,  King  of  Prussia. 

From  his   Will  or  Royal  Document. 


FRIEDERICH  WILHELM  A.  FROEBEL, 

German  Educational  Reformer,  Kindergarten  System. 
(1782-1852.) 

oYESUS  is  the  only  begotten  Son  of  God;  the  beloved 
.  "^  Son  of  God.  He  commanded  the  disciples  to  "go 
%  into  all  the  world  and  teach  all  nations";  lead  them 
to  a  knowledge  of  God,  the  Father;  of  Jesus,  the 
Son  of  God,  and  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  the  Sanctifier.  —  Chapter 
V^  "  The  Education  of  Man^'^  by  Friederich  FroebeL 


9d 


JAMES  ANTHONY  FROUDE, 

English  Historian.     (1818-1894.) 

E  are  not  questioning  the  fact  that  the  Bible  is  in- 
fallible; we  desire  only  to  be  told  on  what  evi- 
dence that  great  and  awful  fact  concerning  it 
properly  rests.  It  would  seem,  indeed,  as  if  in- 
stinct had  been  wiser  than  argument — as  if  it  had  been  felt 
that  nothing  short  of  this  literal  and  close  inspiration  could 
preserve  the  facts  on  which  Christianity  depends. 

Circumcision  availed  nothing,  nor  uncircumcision — but  a 
new  creature — and  this  new  creature  was  born  again  into 
Christ.     .     .     .     Hedged  in  by  "his  muddy  vesture  of  de- 


l62  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNKSSES. 

cay,"  his  eyes,  like  the  eyes  of  the  disciples  at  Kmmaus,  are 
holden,  and  only  faith  feels  Him.  But  death,  which  till 
Christ  had  died  had  been  the  last  victory  of  evil,  in  virtue  of 
His  submission  to  it,  became  its  own  destroyer,  for  it  had 
power  only  over  the  tainted  particles  of  the  old  substance, 
and  there  was  nothing  needed  but  that  these  should  be 
washed  away,  and  the  elect  would  stand  out  at  once  pure 
and  holy,  clothed  in  immortal  bodies,  like  refined  gold,  the 
redeemed  of  God.  The  Being  who  accomplished  a  work  so 
vast — a  work  compared  to  which  the  first  creation  appears 
but  a  trifling  difficulty — who  could  He  be  but  God?  God 
Himself!  He  was  God!  He  was  man  also;  for  He  was  the 
second  Adam — the  second  starting-point  of  human  growth. 
— Pages  184  and  163,  ''''Short  Studies  on  Great  Subjects ^^  by 
James  Anthony  Froude. 


WILLIAM  PIERCE  FRYE, 

United  States  Senator. 

AM  glad  to  say  that  I  believe  Jesus  Christ  to  be  the 
Son  of  God ;  that  He  died  on  the  Cross  to  save  us 
from  the  penalty  of  sin ;  that  He  rose  from  the  dead 
and  now  sits  at  the  right  hand  of  the  Father;  that 

Father,  Son,  and  Holy  Spirit  are  One,  and  that  the  Bible  is 

a  Divine  message  to  man. 


FRANCIS  JOSEPH  !., 

Emperor  of  Austria  and  King  of  Hungary. 

DO  not  lose  faith  in  God.  In  the  frightful  misfortune 
that  has  struck  me  and  my  house  your  words  of  sym- 
pathy, inspired  by  faith  in  Christ,  which  is  my  only 
refuge,  have  conveyed  sweet  consolation  to  my  heart. 
—  To  a  friend^  after  the  Assassination  of  the  Empress  of  Aus- 
tria ;  published  in  the  Associate  Press  Dispatches,  Sept.  1 3, 
1898. 


A   CI^OUD   OF   WITNESSES.  163 

LOUIS  DE  BUADE  FRONTENAC. 

Governor  of  Canada.     {1620-1698.) 

HE  Holy  Scriptures  command  us  to  obey  our  sover- 
eign, and  teach  us  that  no  pretext  or  reason  can  dis- 
pel us  from  this  obedience. 

As  for  me,  it  only  remains  to  protest  before  you 
that  I  shall  esteem  myself  happy  in  consecrating  all  my  ef- 
forts, and,  if  need  be,  my  life,  to  extend  the  empire  of  Jesus 
Christ  throughout  all  this  land. — Page  19,  "  Count  Frontenac 
and  New  France  under  Louis  X/F,"  by  Francis  Parkman, 


SIR  DOUGLAS  FOX, 

British  Civil  and  Mechanical  Engineer. 

E  are  more  than  loyal  subjects;  we  are  followers  of 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  We  gather  here  as  cham- 
pions of  the  Bible.  We  can  not  see  what  the  fu- 
ture is  going  to  be,  but  we  do  know  that  our  Lord 
and  Master  is  the  rightful  King  of  this  world,  and  you  and 
I,  if  we  are  fighting  for  His  banner,  know  that  we  will  suc- 
ceed in  the  end. — London  City  Mission  Magazine^  June^\^<^2>' 


ROBERT  B.  FULTON, 

President  of  the  University  of  Mississippi. 

^a:\PEAKING  personally,  nothing  is  more  certain  to  me 
than  that  I  owe  to  the  religion  of  Christ,  and  to  the 
Bible  as  its  exponent,  anything  and  everything  in  my 
life  that  may  be  of  any  worth. 
What  would  the  world  be  without  Christ  and  the  Bible? 
They  are  indissolubly  connected  with  whatever  is  pure  in 
morals,  whatever  is  elevating  in  art,  whatever  is  most  benefi- 
cent in  government,  and  whatever  is  most  useful  in  science. 


/P,   /^.    ^cu^Z^  ^ 


164 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


JAMES  ABRAM  GARFIELD, 

Twentieth  President  of  the   United  States.     (1831-1881.) 

Y  Christian  con- 
victions may  be 
C^^^  formulated  best 
in  the  language 
of  the  inspired  apostle: 
*'Who  shall  separate  us 
from  the  love  of  Christ? 
Shall  tribulation,  or  dis- 
tress, or  persecution,  or 
famine,  or  nakedness,  or 
peril,  or  sword?  . 
I  am  persuaded  that 
neither  death,  nor  life, 
nor  angels,  nor  princi- 
palities, nor  powers,  nor 
things  present,  nor 
things  to  come,  nor 
height,  nor  depth,  nor  any  other  creature,  shall  be  able  to 
separate  us  from  the  love  of  God,  which  is  in  Christ  Jesus 
our  Lord." 


Fellow -citizens :  Clouds  and  darkness  are  around  about 
Him;  His  pavilion  is  dark  waters  and  thick  clouds;  justice 
and  judgment  are  the  establishment  of  His  throne;  mercy 
and  truth  shall  go  before  His  face.  Fellow-citizens!  God 
reigns,  and  the  Government  at  Washington  still  lives! — 
These  historic  "Words  ^  spoken  from  the  balcony  of  the  New  York 
Custom  House^  calmed  the  Tnob  frenzied  at  the  news  of  Lin- 
coln^s  death. 

Note. — Garfield  came  back  always  with  delight  to  the  simpler  instincts 
of  religious  faith.  Not  many  weeks  before  his  assassination,  walking  on 
the  banks  of  the  Potomac  with  a  friend,  and  conversing  on  topics  of  per- 
sonal religion,  he  said  that  he  found  our  Lord's  Prayer,  and  the  humble 
petitions  learned  in  infancy,  infinitely  restful  to  him.  Certain  texts  of 
Scripture  had  a  strong  hold  on  his  heart.  The  eighth  chapter  of  Romans 
had  been  a  subject  of  careful  study  with  him  from  his  youth. — From  James 
G.  Blaine's  Memorial  Oration  on  "  Garfield,''  delivered  tn  the  House  >  ^ 
Representatives,  February  27,  1882. 


A   CIvOUD   OF    WITNESSES.  165 

Whilst  a  student  at  Williams  College,  he,  with  other  stu- 
dents, on  "  Mountain  Day,"  climbed  one  of  the  high  peaks 
seven  miles  distant.  The  surrounding  scenery  was  enough 
to  awaken  religious  awe.  Just  then  young  Garfield  broke 
the  silence  :  "  Beys,  it  is  a  habit  of  mine  to  read  a  chapter  in 
the  Bible  every  evening  with  my  absent  mother.  Shall  I 
read  aloud  ?  "  The  little  company  assented  ;  and,  drawing 
from  his  pocket  a  well-worn  Testament,  he  read  in  soft,  rich 
tones  the  chapter  which  the  mother  in  Ohio  was  reading  at 
the  same  time,  and  then  called  on  a  classmate  on  that  moun- 
tain top  to  pray. — ^^Life  of  Garfield^^^  by  John  C.  Ridpath 


GALILEO  GALILEI, 

Italian  Astronomer.     (1564-1642.) 


AM  inclined  to  think  that  the  authority  of  Holy  Scrip- 
ture is  intended  to  convince  men  of  those  truths 
which  are  necessary  for  their  salvation,  and  which, 
being  far  above  man's  understanding,  can  not  be  made 
credible  by  any  learning,  or  any  other  means  than  revelation 
by  the  Holy  Spirit. 

I  send  you  a  rose,  which  ought  to  please  you  extremely, 
seeing  what  a  rarity  it  is  at  this  season.  And  with  the  rose 
you  must  accept  its  thorns,  which  represent  the  bitter  suffer- 
ing of  our  Lord,  while  the  green  leaves  represent  the  hope 
we  may  entertain,  that  through  the  same  sacred  passion  we, 
having  passed  through  the  darkness  of  this  short  winter  of 
our  mortal  life,  may  attain  to  the  brightness  and  felicity  of  an 
eternal  spring  in  Heaven. — Pages  16  and  18,  ^^  Famous  Men 
of  Science ^^^  by  Sarah  K.  Bolton. 


GIUSEPPE  GARIBALDI, 

Italian  Patriot.     (  1807-1882.) 

AM  a  Christian,  and  I   speak  to  Christians — I  am  a 

true  Christian,  and  I  speak  to  true  Christians.    I  love 

and  venerate  the  religion  of  Christ,  because  Christ 

came  into  the  world  to  deliver  humanity  from  slavery, 

for  which  God  had  not  crea'xd  it.    .    .    .    You  who  are  here— 


366 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 


you,  the  educated  and  cultivated  .portion  of  the  citizenship — 
you  have  the  duty  to  educate  the  people — educate  the  people 
— educate  them  to  be  Christians — educate  them  to  be  Ital- 
ians. .  .  .  Viva  Italia!  Viva  Christianity! — Page  444, 
General  Garibaldi^  s  Autobiography — Translated  from  his  pri- 
vate papers^  by  Theodore  Dwight. 


WILLIAM  LLOYD  GARRISON, 

Journalist  and  Reformer.     ( 1805-1879.) 


A  TRIBUTE  TO  THE  BIBLE. 


BOOK  of  books  !  Though  scepticism  flout 
Thy  sacred  origin,  thy  worth  decry  ; 
ijvEr   Though  transcendent  folly  give  the  lie 

To  what  thou  teachest ;  though  the  critic  doubt 

The  fact :  that  miracle  ;    and  raise  shout 

Of  triumph  over  each  incongruity 

He  in  thy  pages  may  perchance  espy ; 

As  in  his  strength  the  effulgent  sun  shines  out^ 

Hiding  innumerable  stars,  so  dost  thou  shine, 

With  heavenly  light  all  human  works  excelling. 

Thy  oracles  are  holy  and  divine. 

Of  free  salvation  through  a  Saviour  telling. 

All  truth,  all  excellence  dost  Thou  enshrine. 

The  mists  of  sin  and  ignorance  expelling. 


SIR  ROBERT  GRANT, 

Late  Governor  of  Bombay ;    Poet.     (1785-1838.) 
THE  WRITTEN  WORD. 


HE  starry  firmament  on  high, 
And  all  the  glories  of  the  sky. 
Yet  shine  not  Thy  praise,  O  Lord, 
So  brightly  as  Thy  Written  Word. 

The  hopes  that  holy  Word  supplies, 
Its  truths  Divine  and  precepts  wise, 
In  each  a  heavenly  beam  I  see, 
And  every  beam  conducts  to  Thee. 


PUBLIC  AND  PROFESSIONAL  MEN, 


^'      Elijah  A.  Morse, 

Page  ^26. 

Samuel  J.  Randall,  David  Hayes  Agnew, 

Page  ^y}.  Page  10. 

Louis  Adolphe  Thiers, 

Page  4^9. 

William  M.  Evarts,  Chauncey  M.  Depew, 

Page  14^.  Page  up. 

David  J.  Brewer, 

Page  46. 


A  CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  167 

,    A  UTANY. 

Saviour,  when  in  dust  to  Thee 
Low  we  bow  the  adoring  knee ; 
When,  repentant,  to  the  skies 
Scarce  we  lift  our  weeping  eyes. 

By  Thy  deep,  expiring  groan  ; 
By  the  sad  sepulchral  stone ; 
By  the  vault,  whose  dark  abode 
Held  in  vain  the  rising  God ; 
Oh,  from  earth  to  heaven  restored, 
Mighty  reascending  Lord, 
Listen,  listen  to  the  cry 
Of  our  solemn  Litany  ! 

MERRILL  EDWARDS  GATES, 

President  of  Amherst  College. 

^HE  thought  of  God  is  a  mighty  force,  because  God  is^ 
and  His  Will  is  the  source  of  life,  and  light,  and 
power.  Through  true  thoughts  about  God  we  re- 
ceive into  our  lives  this  life,  and  light,  and  power ; 
the  life  of  God  begins  in  us.  A  personality  is  the  most  po- 
tent form  in  which  great  thoughts  about  life  can  be  presented 
to  men.  It  is  in  the  Divine  Person  of  Christ  that  God  gives 
us  His  true  thought  about  Himself  in  His  relations  with 
man.  The  supreme  question  for  each  of  us  is,  "  What  think 
ye  of  Christ?" 

Do  we  think  the  truth  of  God  and  Christ?  Here  comes  in 
the  value  of  Bible  study.  In  the  Bible  God  reveals  to  us  the 
truth  about  Himself  which  we  could  never  have  learned  from 
any  other  source.  Neither  reason  nor  nature  could  have 
taught  us  of  the  redeeming  love  of  a  holy  God.  This  greatest 
truth  in  the  world  ^comes  into  the  world  through  Christ  and 
the  Bible;  and  it  is  by  reverently  studying  the  divinely 
revealed  will  of  God  in  the  Bible  that  we  get  the  true  thought 
of  God,  and  are  saved  from  the  self-deceptions  of  mysticism, 
and  come  to  a  living  knowledge  of  the  Saviour. 


l68  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

HENRY  WOODFIN  GRADY, 

Journalist;  late  Editor  of  Atlanta  Constitution.     (1851-1889.) 

^CIENCE  has  revealed  to  me  no  better  faith  than  that 
learned  at  my  mother's  knee,  nor  has  knowledge  a 
wiser  and  better  book  than  the  worn  Bible  that  held 
the  simple  truths  of  the  heart  and  annals  of  my  home. 
I  expect  to  die  in  the  same  hope  and  peace  which  moved 
the  dying  Shakespeare — wisest  mind  ever  clothed  in  mortal 
flesh — when  he  said  :  *  "I  commend  my  soul  into  the  hands 
of  God,  my  Creator,  hoping  and  assuredly  believing,  through 
the  only  merits  of  Jesus  Christ,  my  Saviour,  to  be  made  par- 
taker of  life  everlasting. "  rr     r\  /) 

*See  page  405.  cW  ^    H   -   ^P^^^  ^ 


CHRISTIAN  FURCHTEGOTT  GELLERT, 

German  Poet,  and  Professor  of  Philosophy,  University  of  Leipsic. 
(1715-1769.) 


JESUS  LIVES. 

ESUS  lives  !     Who  now  despairs, 

Spurns  the  Word  which  God  hath  spoken. 
'^  Grace  to  all  that  Word  declares, 

Grace  whereby  sin's  yoke  is  broken. 
Christ  rejects  not  penitence  ; 
That  shall  be  my  confidence. 

Jesus  lives !  for  me  He  died  ;    * 

Hence  will  I,  to  Jesus  living, 
Pure  in  heart  and  act  abide, 

Praise  to  Him  and  glory  giving. 
Freelj^  God  doth  aid  dispense  ; 
This  shall  be  my  confidence. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


169 


Jesus  lives  !  my  heart  knows  well 
Naught  from  me  His  love  shall  sever. 

Life,  nor  death,  nor  powers  of  hell, 
Part  me  from  Christ  forever. 

God  will  be  a  sure  defense ; 

This  shall  be  my  confidence. 


GEORGE  111., 

King  of  Great  Britain.     (1738-1820.) 

>ET   me    hear    less    of 

Socrates,  and  more  of 

<^  Christ  from  the  pulpit. 

^  — Page  261,  ''^Memoirs 
of  his  late  Majesty^  George 
lll.^^^by  Thomas  Williams. 

Keep  me,  O  Lord,  from  silly 
and  unguarde'd  friends,  and 
from  secret  and  designing  en- 
emies; and  give  me  those 
things  which  are  best  for  me, 
through  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord. — Page  453, 
Minds:' 

My  Dear  Child — You  have  been  good  to  your  parents ;  we 
have  nothing  wherewith  to  reproach  you ;  but  I  need  not  tell 
you  that  it  is  not  of  yourself  alone  that  you  can  be  saved^ 
and  that  your  acceptance  with  God  must  depend  on  your 
faith  and  trust  in  the  merits  of  the  Redeemer. — Page  240, 
^ '  The  Percy  Anecdotes . " 


Other  Men's 


DANIEL  COLT  OILMAN, 

^Jturf  President  of  Johns  Hopkins  University. 

J^  I^OREOVER,  the  end  in  view,  the  ultimate  end  of  all 

.  Wx.  educational  and  scientific  effort,  as  well  as  of  all  leg- 

^J^^<^  islation  and  statesmanship,  is  identical  with  that  at 

which    the    religion  of  Christ    aims,  that  which 


was 


her- 


170 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 


aided  in  Judea  nineteen  centuries  ago  by  a  multitude  of  the 
heavenly  host,  saying:  "Peace  on  earth,  good  will  to  men." 
.  .  .  When  the  churches  thus  more  fully  realize  the  value 
of  advancing  knowledge,  and  when  universities  more  heartily 
recognize  the  truth  of  Christian  doctrine,  as  well  as  the  beauty 
of  Christian  life,  then  shall  we  say  with  the  Psalmist,  ''Jeru- 
salem is  built  as  a  city  that  is  at  unity  with  itself.  Peace 
within  thy  walls  and  prosperity  within  thy  palaces." — From 
an  Address  delivered  at  Washington^  December^  1887,  before 
the  Evangelical  Alliance. 


THE   WISE   MEN   AND   THE   STAR. 


RICHARD  WATSON  GILDER, 

Journalist  ;    Editor  of  The  Century. 

HO  are  these  that  follow  across  the  hills  of  night 
S^*^  A  star  that  westward  hurries  along  the  fields  of  light? 

Three  Wise  Men  from  the  east  with  myrrh  and  treasure  bring 
To  lay  them  down  at  the  feet  ol  our  I^ord  and  Christ  and  King. 


GouvENEUR  Morris,  late  United  States  Minister  to 
Prance  (1752-18 16):  Had  our  Saviour  addressed  a  chapter 
to  the  rulers  of  mankind,  as  He  did  to  His  followers,  I  am 
persuaded  He  would  have  dictated  this  text:  "Be  not  wise 
overmuch  !" — See  ^^ Life  of  Gouveneur  Morris,^''  by  Roosevelt. 


A   CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES. 

WILLIAM  EWART  GLADSTONE, 

Author,  and  Prime  Minister  of  Great  Britain. 
(1809-1898.) 

OST  men  at  the 
head  of  great  move- 

C)>^  ments  are  Christian 

^  men.     During  the 

many  years  in  the  Cabinet 
I  was  brought  in  contact 
with  some  sixty  master 
minds,  and  not  more  than 
perhaps  three  or  four  of 
whom  were  in  sympathy 
with  the  skeptical  move- 
ments of  the  day. 


171 


n6^l/<Ju^p^^s^ 


As  one  of  the  grounds  for  naming  his  recent  work  ''The 
Impregnable  Rock,"  he  says :  "  They  lead  upward  and  on- 
wards to  the  idea  that  the  Scriptures  are  well  called  Holy^ 
Scriptures;  and  that,  though  assailed  by  camp,  by  battery, 
and  by  mine,  they  are,  nevertheless,  an  house  built  upon  a 
rock,  and  that  rock  impregnable ;  that  the  weapon  of  offense 
which  shall  impair  their  efficiency  for  aiding  in  the  redemp- 
tion of  mankind  has  not  yet  been  forged ;  that  the*  Sacred 
Canon,  which  it  took  (perhaps)  two  thousand  years  from  the 
accumulations  of  Moses  down  to  the  acceptance  of  the 
Apocalypse  to  construct,  is  like  to  wear  out  the  storms  and 
the  sunshine  of  the  world,  and  all  the  wayward  aberrations 
of  humanity,  not  merely  for  a  term  as  long,  but  until  time 
shall  be  no  more." 

The  Christian  faith  and  the  Holy  Scriptures  arm  us  with 
the  means  of  neutralizing  and  repelling  the  assaults  of  evil 
in  and  from  ourselves.  Mist  may  rest  upon  the  surrounding 
landscape,  but  our  own  path  is  visible  from  hour  to  hour^ 
from  day  to  day. 


172  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

"  I  do  not  ask  to  see 
The  distant  scene  ;  one  step  enough  for  me." 

Our  Saviour  astonished  the  people  because,  instead  of  be- 
ing lost  in  the  mazes  of  arbitrary  and  vicious  excrescences 
that  darkened  the  face  of  religion,  He  taught  them  "with 
authority,"  and  "not  as  the  scribes."  If  God  has  given  us 
a  revelation  of  His  will,  whether  in  the  laws  of  our  nature, 
or  in  the  kingdom  of  grace,  that  revelation  not  only  illumi- 
nates, but  binds.  Like  the  credentials  of  an  earthly  am- 
bassador, it  is  just  and  necessary  that  the  credentials  of  that 
revelation  should  be  tested.  But  if  it  be  found  genuine,  if 
we  have  proofs  of  its  being  genuine,  equal  to  those  of  which, 
in  ordinary  concerns  of  life,  reason  acknowledges  the  obliga- 
tory character,  then  we  find  ourselves  to  be  not  independ- 
ent beings,  engaged  in  an  optional  inquiry,  but  the  servants 
of  a  Master,  the  pupils  of  a  Teacher,  the  children  of  a  Fa- 
ther, and  each  of  us  already  bound  with  the  bonds  which 
those  relations  imply. — Pages  7,  353,  and  355,  ^^The  Impreg- 
nable Rock  of  Holy  Scripture ^^^  by  the  Right  Hon.  W.  E, 
Gladstone. 

Note.— Commending  myself  to  the  infinite  mercies  of  God  in  the  incar- 
nate Son  as  my  only  and  sufficient  hope,  I  leave  the  particulars  of  my  burial 
to  my  executors.  On  no  account  shall  a  laudatory  inscription  be  placed 
over  me. — A  Clause  hi  his  last  Will. 


JOHN  HALL  GLADSTONE, 

British  Scientist. 

LOOK  upon  Christ  as  the  highest  manifestation  of  the 
character  of  our  heavenly  Father,  the  one  Mediator 
between  God  and  man.  I  regard  the  Scriptures  as  a 
series  of  the  progressive  revelations  of  God's  will  to 
man,  through  various  prophets  and  teachers  up  to  Jesus  of 
JSIazareth  Himself  and  His  immediate  disciples. 


n^ 


G. 


A    CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES.  1 73 

JOHN  RICHARD  GREEN, 

,  British  Historian.     (1837-1883.) 

ELIGION  indeed  was  only  one  of  the  causes  for  this 
Q\^  sudden  popularity  of  the  Bible.  The  Book  was 
$^  equally  important  in  its  bearing  on  the  intellectual 
development  of  the  people.  All  the  prose  literature 
of  England,  save  the  forgotten  tracts  of  Wyclif,  has  grown 
up  since  the  translation  of  the  Scriptures  by  Tyndall  and 
Coverdale.  So  far  as  the  nation  at  large  was  concerned,  no 
history,  no  romance,  hardly  any  poetry,  save  the  little-known 
verses  of  Chaucer,  existed  in  the  English  tongue  when  the 
Bible  was  ordered  to  be  set  up  in  the  churches.  Sunday  after 
Sunday,  day  after  day,  the  crowds  gathered  round  the  Bible 
in  the  nave  of  St.  Paul's,  or  the  family  group  that  hung  on 
its  words  in  the  devotional  exercises  at  home  were  leavened 
with  the  new  literature.  .  .  .  But  far  greater  than  its 
effect  on  literature  was  the  effect  of  the  Bible  on  the  charac- 
ter of  the  people  at  large.  The  Bible  was  as  yet  the  one 
Book  which  was  familiar  to  every  Englishman,  and  every 
where  its  .words,  as  they  fell  on  ears  which  custom  had  not 
deadened  to  their  force  and  beauty,  kindled  a  startling  en- 
thusiasm. The  whole  moral  effect  which  is  produced  nowa- 
days by  the  religious  newspaper,  the  tract,  the  essay,  the  ser- 
mon, was  then  produced  by  the  Bible  alone,  and  its  effect  in 
this  way,  however  dispassionately  we  examine  it,  was  simply 
amazing.  The  whole  nation  became  a  church.  The  prob- 
lems of  life  and  death,  whose  questionings  found  no  answer 
in  the  higher  minds  of  Shakespeare's  day,  pressed  for  an 
answer  not  only  from  noble  and  scholar,  but  from  farmer  and 
shopkeeper  in  the  age  that  followed  him.  .  .  .  But  re- 
ligion in  its  deepest  and  iimermost  sense  had  not  to  do  with 
the  church,  but  with  the  individual  soul.  It  was  each  Chris- 
tian man  who  held  in  his  power  the  issues  of  life  and  death. 
It  was  in  each  Christian  conscience  that  the  strife  was  waged 
between  Heaven  and  Hell.  Not  as  one  of  a  body,  but  as  a 
single  soul,  could  each  Christian  claim  his  part  in  the  mys- 
tery of  redemption. — Pages  16,  18,  Volimte  II I ^  "'England^'''' 
by  John  R.   Green . 


174  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

JOHANN  WOLFGANG  GOETHE, 

German  Poet  and  Author.     (1749-1832.) 

ESTEEM  the  Gospels  to  be  thoroughly  genuine,  for 
there  shines  from  them  the  reflected  splendor  of  a  sub- 
limity proceeding  from  the  person  of  Jesus  Christ  of  so 
Divine  a  kind  as  only  the  Divine  could  ever  have  man- 
ifested on  earth. — Conversations  with  Eckermann^  III.^  371. 
I  am  persuaded  that  the  Bible  becomes  ever  more  beautiful 
the  more  it  is  understood ;  that  is,  the  more  we  consider  that 
every  word  which  we  apply  to  ourselves  has  had  at  first  a 
particular,  peculiar,  immediate  reference  to  certain  special 
circumstances. — *Aus  Makarieus  Archiv   W.  Meister. 

Nothing,  therefore,  remained  to  me  but  to  part  from  this 
society ;  and  as  my  love  for  the  Holy  Scriptures,  as  well  as 
the  Founder  of  Christianity  and  its  early  professors,  could 
not  be  taken  from  me,  I  formed  a  Christianity  for  my  private 
use,  and  sought  to  build  it  up  by  an  attentive  study  of  his- 
tory.— Page  208,  Autobiography. 


Fredrick  II.,  of  Denmark,  when  nearing  death,  said  to 
his  physician:  "Let  the  pulse  beat  as  it  may,  we  know  the 
mercy  of  God  will  never  fail." 


Constant  Coquelin,  French  Actor:  "And  why  should 
we  not  make  merry  Christmas  time?  We  have  the  right  to 
be  joyful  on  the  day  that  brought  into  the  world  the  Saviour 
of  mankind." — The  Metropolitan^  December^  1900. 


Lord  North,  Prime  Minister  under  George  III  (1732- 
1790) :  He  was  truly  a  pious  Christian ;  his  religion  was  free 
from  bigotry  or  intolerance,  and  continued  more  in  the  spirit 
of  Christian  benevolence  than  in  outward  personal  observ- 
ance— Appendix  Vol.  II,  ' '  Statesmen  in  the  Time  of  George 
I  11^ ' '  by  Lord  Brougham. 


Marquis  Daehousie,  Governor-General  of  India,  1848- 
1856  (181 2-1860).  Himself  a  sincere  Christian,  while  sin- 
gularly reticent  as  to  his  personal  faith,  he  thus  wrote  of 
the  adoption  of  Christianity  by  Maharaja  Dhuleep  Singh,  the 
last  of  the  Punjab  rulers:  "The  act  was  voluntary  on  his 
part,  and,  under  the  guidance  of  God's  hand,  was  the  result 
of  his  own  uninfluenced  convictions.  It  is  gratifying  to  be 
able  to  state  that  he  lived  strictly  consistent  with  the  injunc- 
tions of  our  faith." — Page  778,  Volume  VI,  The  Encyclopaedia 
Britannica. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


175 


OLIVER  GOLDSMITH, 

Irish  Poet,  Historian,  and  Novelist.     (1728-1774.) 

.HE  disciples,  after 

their  Divine  Master 

was    taken    from 

them,  proceeded  to 
fulfill  His  last  command- 
ment by  preaching  the 
Gospel  "to  every  nation." 
.  .  .  Independent  of  the 
.sustaining  Providence  of 
its  Almighty  Author,  there 
were  many  circumstances 
that  facilitated  the  progress 
and  prepared  the  way  for  the 
final  triumph  of  Christian- 
ity. .  .  The  heathen  system  was  at  once  obscure  and  ab- 
surd; the  philosophers  avowedly  spoke  from  conjecture;  but 
by  the  Gospel  "life  and  immortality  was  brought  to  light." 
Christianity  offered  the  blessings  of  salvation  to  men  of  every 
class;  it  was  its  most  marked  feature  that  "to  the  poor  the 
Gospel  was  preached,"  and  the  wretch  who  dared  not  come 
into  the  pagan  temple  because  he  had  no  rich  offering  to  lay 
upon  the  altar  was  ready  to  obey  the  call  of  Him  who 
offered  pardon  and  love  "without  money  and  without  price." 
.  Since  that  period  Christianity  has  preyailed  in 
Europe,  and  formed  the  great  social  happiness  and  the  great 
source  of  the  intellectual  eminence  enjoyed  in  that  quarter  of 
the  globe.  Let  us  hope  that  the  exertions  now  made  to  dif- 
fuse its  blessings  over  the  benighted  portions  of  the  earth 
will  prove  successful,  and  that  "peace  and  happiness,  truth 
and  justice,  religion  and  piety"  will  prevail  from  pole  to 
pole. — Pages  288  and  391,  ''^Pinnock^s  Goldsmith^ s  Romey 


Last  words  of  Sir  Henry  Havelock 
a  Christian  can  die." 


See,  my  son,  how 


176  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

CHARLES  GEORGE  GORDON, 

English  Major-General  ("Chinese  Gordon"). 
( 1833-1885.) 

^HERE  is  death  in  the  seeking  of  high  posts  on  this 
earth  for  the  purpose  of  what  the  world  calls  doing 
great  things ;  the  mightiest  of  men  are  flies  on  a 
wheel;  a  kind  word  to  a  crossing-sweeper  delights 
Christ  in  him^  as  much  as  it  would  delight  Christ  in  a  queen. 
I  have  had  very  nice  thoughts  on  I  John,  IV.,  13 — "Who- 
soever shall  confess  that  Jesus  is  the  Son  of  God,  God  dwell- 
eth  in  him,  and  he  in  God."  I  think  it  is  the  key  to  much 
of  the  Scripture.  I  am  more  than  ever  convinced  that  the 
secret  of  happiness  and  holiness  is  in  the  indwelling  of  God. 
Out  of  commiseration  for  our  dual  condition,  God  has 
given  us  an  oracle  which  will  answer  any  question,  advise, 
instruct,  and  guide  us ;  now  this  oracle  must  be  His  voice, 
for,  if  not,  it  would  not  be  His  Word.  He  has,  in  His  infinite 
wisdom,  incarnated  His  voice  in  the  Scriptures ;  His  voice 
is  to  be  understood  by  the  highest  or  lowest  intellect ;  it 
gives  answers  through  all  time.  To  the  carnal  man  it  is  an 
ordinary  Book ;  to  the  spiritual  man  it  is  alive,  and  makes 
alive.  Whether  we  consider  it  or  not,  the  Scriptures  con- 
tain the  mind  of  Christ,  and  is,  when  illuminated  with  the 
Spirit,  as  if  Christ  was  ever  talking  to  us. ,  Now,  we  should 
think  that  if  Christ  was  ever  talking  to  us,  that  would  suffice 
us,  and,  consequently,  as  I  believe  that  in  theory^  I  try  to  real- 
ize it  in  practice. — ^''Life  of  General  Gordon^  a  Christian 
Hero^^  by  Major  Seton  Churchill. 


HORATIO  NELSON, 

Third  Earl,  Hymn  Compiler;  first  Earl,  the  Hero  of  Trafalgar. 

Praise  we  God  the  Father,  praise  we  God  the  Son, 
And  God  the  Holy  Spirit,  eternal  Three  in  One. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


177 


THE    RIGHT   HONORABLE   JOHN    CAMP- 
BELL GORDON, 

(SIXTH  EARL  OF  ABERDEEN,) 

Governor-General  of  Canada. 


E  all  recognize,  and 
rejoice  to  recog- 
nize, the  glorious 
fact  that  Chris- 
tianity is  the  universal  reli- 
gion. It  is  the  religion  of 
mankind.  It  is  as  well 
adapted  to  the  needs  of  the 
dusky  sons  of  Africa  as  to  the 
fair-skinned  Scandinavian. 
Whilst  we  recognize  this 
glorious  oneness  of  the  ever- 
lasting Gospel,  which  we  are 

here  to  promote,  we  must  also  recognize  the  diversity  of 
operations  which  are  called  for  in  presenting  and  declaring 
this  everlasting  Word. 

The  walls  of  Jericho  fell  down  flat,  but  it  was  not  till 
after  they  had  been  compassed  round  seven  days  and  the  last 
day  seven  times.  And  what  was  the  instrument  through 
which  this  was  accomplished?  It  was  not  the  clash  of  spears 
and  swords;  nor  even,  first  and  foremost,  was  it  the  shout  of 
the  people  ;  it  was  the  blast  of  the  ram's  horns  representing 
the  Word  of  God.  And  it  is  still  the  instrument  with  which 
we  must  carry  on  our  work;  that  is  the  weapon  of  our  war- 
fare ;  the  Word  of  God,  with  the  spirit  of  Christ  living  and 


abiding  in  us. 


^^'L^t^^.utt-*-*^ 


Douglas,  in  a  little  time  you  will  be  a  duke,  but  I  shall  be 
a  King. — Dying  ivords  of  the  Duke  of  Hamilton. 


178  A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

JOHN  BROWN  GORDON, 

United  States  Senator. 

BELIEVE  Christianity  is  a  complete  and  perfect  sys- 
tem of  faith  and  practice;    Christ,  while   the  ideal 
man,  was  no  less  in  life  and  death  the  very  God.    The 
Holy  Scriptures   I  believe  to  be  the   only  authentic 
and  authoritative  Word  of  God. 


JOHN  BARTHOLOMEW  GOUGH, 

^G)^^^  Temperance  Reformer  and  Popular  Orator.     (18 17-1886.) 

|Y  and  by  this  and  all  great  moral  enterprises  shall 
usher  in  the  day  of  the  final  triumph  of  the  Cross  of 
Christ.  I  believe  it,  and  for  that  I  work.  And  when 
I  die,  I  pray  God  that  I  may  die  in  the  harness,  bat- 
tling for  this  with  the  hope  that  there  is  a  better  day  coming, 
and  a  prayer,  "God  speed  the  right!"  Then  will  we  lay  our 
laurels  at  His  feet,  and  cast  our  crowns  before  Him,  joining 
in  the  mighty  anthem  of  praise  to  Him  who  hath  subdued 
all  things  unto  Himself. 

I  have  a  mind  capable  of  understanding  in  some  degree 
the  greatness  of  the  Almighty ;  a  reason  able  to  worship  Him 
intelligently,  and  a  heart  enabling  me  to  love  Him.  I  am  a 
living  man,  having  within  me  the  fire  of  God,  and  a  spark  of 
immortality  which  will  never  go  out.  For  me  Christ,  the 
Saviour,  died.  I  am  worth  more  than  all  this  magnificent 
materialism.  I  am  A  MAN!  The  elements  are  to  melt 
with  a  fervent  heat.  The  world  is  to  be  removed.  "The 
milky  way  will  shut  up  its  two  arms,  and  hush  its  dumb 
prayer  forever,"  but  I  shall  live  with  a  destiny  before  me  as 
high  as  heaven,  and  as  vast  as  eternity. — Pages  ^2Z  and  ^'J2>^ 
''^Platform  Echoes ^^^  by  John  B.  Gough. 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  179 

CHARLES  FRANCOIS  GOUNOD, 

French  Musical  Composer.     ( 1818-1893.) 

KNOW  I   look  robust;   but,  as  St.  Paul  says  in   his 

Epistle  to  Timothy,  "I  am  now  ready  to  be  offered, 

and  the  time  of  my  departure  is  at  hand.     I  have 

fought  a  good  fight;    I  have  finished  my  course;    I 

have  kept  the  faith." 

The  oratorio,  ''The  Redemption,"  is  a  lyrical  setting  of 
three  great  facts — the  Passion  and  Death  of  our  Saviour ;  His 
glorious  life  on  earth  from  His  resurrection  to  His  ascension, 
and  the  spread  of  Christianity  in  the  world. — "'Review  of 
Reviews ^^^  December^  1893. 


GOVERNORS  OF  STATES.* 

ALABAHA. 

•    JOSEPH  F.JOHNSTON. 

ERE  the  Bible  utterly  destroyed  from  the  face  of 
the  earth  its  Divine  precepts  would  live  forever  in 
the  hearts  of  men.  Had  not  one  of  the  Apostles 
recorded  the  teachings  of  Christ,  His  divinity 
would  have  been  established  by  tradition  and  handed  down 
to  us  from  sire  to  son.  '^  w     r\  s 


eyt^  ,^  .^tMovio^AAA/ 


ARKANSAS. 

SIMON  P.  HUGHES. 


HE  Bible  commends  itself  as  the  revealed  will  of  God 
to  man,  and  as  a  testimony  to  the  Divinity  of  Jesus 
Christ.  /^ 

Obtained  through  correspondence  since  1889.— S.  A.  N. 


l8o  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

CALIFORNIA. 

G^  H.  H.  MARKHAM. 

t  ^^^^^I'^  ^^  t^  s^y  ^^^^  ^  ^^  ^  fi^^  believer  in  Chris- 
•^  Q  tianity  and  its  Book.  I  am  thoroughly  convinced 
9  ^  that  all  the  Churches  of  Jesus  Christ  are  doing  a 
^        vast  amount  of  good  in  their  respective  capacities. 


COLORADO. 

ALVA  ADAMS. 


BELIEVE  Christ  and  Christianity  to  be  the  strongest 

and  most  potent  powers  for  the  good  of  the  race  in 

modern  civilization,  and  the  Bible  to  be  the  greatest 

statute  Book  ever  given  for  the  guidance  of  man  or 

of  creeds.  y^^  yy 


CONNECTICUT. 

R  C.  LOUNSBURY. 


HAT  think  ye  of  Christ?"     Thank  God,  I  think 
well  of  Him!      He  is  gladness  to  my  soul,  and 
eternal  life  to  all  that  believe  on  His  name.  Chris- 
tianity is  essential  to  a  permanent  civilization,  and 
the  Bible  is  an  inspired  Book — God's  revelation  to  man. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  iSX 

DELAWARE. 

BENJAMIN  T.  BIGGS. 

HROUGH  the  merits  of  a  dying  and  risen  Saviour  all 
may  so  live  on  earth  that  when  death  comes  the  im- 
mortal soul  of  man  may  have  a  home  in  Heaven.  Let 
the  inspired  Volume  be  read  by  everyone,  the  Church 
of  Jesus  Christ  sustained,  and  the  world  will  be  happy  and 
prosperous.  ^^  ^/^^^^ 


FLORIDA. 

EDWARD  A.  PERRY. 


HRIST'S  teachings  of  the  Fatherhood  of  God  and 
S^  the  brotherhood  of  man  is  grand  in  its  breadth  and 
power,  and  sublime  in  its  simplicity  and  love.  How 
immeasurably  superior  to  the  exclusiveness  of  the 
sectarian  and  the  speculations  of  the  schoolmen  !  "All  Scrip- 
ture is  given  by  inspiration  of  God." 


GEORGIA. 

W.  J.  NORTHEN. 


^)T  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  aid  in  any  way  possible  in 
presenting  to  mankind  the  Christian  religion  as  the 
beginning  of  civilization,  making  the  security  and  hap- 
piness of  our  homes,  the  highest  and  best  progress  of 
our  people,  and  the  best  hopes  of  the  world.  Never,  for  a 
moment,  have  I  doubted  that  Christ  is  ''He  that  should 
come,"  and  that  the  Scriptures  are  given  to  us  by  inspiration 
from  God.      In  them  we  have  eternal  life.     There  are  hid- 


l82  A  CLOUD  OF  WITNESSES. 

den  mysteries  in  Christ  and  the  Bible  ;  so  there  are  in  the 
earth,  the  air,  and  the  sea.  These  increase  rather  than 
destroy  my  views  of  the  wondrons  power  of  the  Godhead. 


IDAHO. 

c^  W.  J.  McCONNELL  ^ 

^^^^  "ESUS  CHRIST  and  the  Holy  Bible  constitute  the  bul- 
■\jl  wark  of  our  civilization.  To  me,  Jesus  is  the  only 
Saviour,  my  guide  in  this  life,  and  comfort  in  the  hour 
of  death.     The  Scriptures  are  Divine,  and  a  perfect 

record  of  revelation. 


9gi 


IOWA. 

FRANK  D  JACKSON. 

^HE  highest  compliment  possible  to  any  family  is  to 
truthfully  denominate  it  as  the  home  of  Christ  and 
the  Bible.  The  sweetest  carols  from  human  voice  are 
the  Christian  songs.  The  most  touching  and  the  most 
lasting  utterances  of  the  greatest  men  of  our  country  are  their 
testimonies  to  Christian  influences  and  Christian  purposes. 
Men  may  not  all  publicly  confess  the  one  nor  profess  the 
other;  but  belief  in  God  and  repressed  faith  in  Christ,  the 
Saviour,  are,  I  believe,  as  common  to  the  human  heart  and 
mind  as  are  the  susceptibilities  to  hunger  and  to  thirst  com- 
mon to  the  physical  body. 


r'^  P  A  H  ■ 
or  THE 

UNIVERSITY 

OF 


FAMOUS    BRITISH   POETS. 


ROBERT   BURNS,  WILLIAM  COWPER, 

Page  63.  Page  too. 

CHARLES    LAMB, 
Page  271, 
GEOFFREY  CHAUCER,  ALEXANDER  POPE, 

Page  82.  Page  '\62, 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  183 

INDIANA. 

ISAAC  P.  GRAY. 

.HERE  was  no  true  conception  of  what  man  should  bf^ 
until  Christ  came.  He  was  Himself  an  exemplifica- 
cation  of  a  just  and  perfect  man,  and  therefore  must 
have  been  Divine.  His  teachings  gave  birth  to  Chris- 
tianity, the  progress  of  which  marks  the  advance  of  civiliza- 
tion, and  obedience  to  the  precepts  of  the  Bible  solaces  every 
human  grief  and  brings  peace  and  happiness  to  man. 

KENTUCKY. 

JAMES  B.  McCREARY.* 

BELIEVE  in  Christ,  the  Son  of  God ;  in  Christianity 
as  a  revealed  religion,  and  in  the  Bible  as  Divinely 
inspired.  In  an  official  life  of  twenty  years  I  have 
been   State   Legislator,  Governor,  and    twelve   years 

in  Congress,  and  most  of  the  leading  men  I  met  believed  in 

tht?  Christian  faith. 


C^^^Z^rt^' 


/^.    ;^-t^ 


KANSAS. 

L.YMAN  U.  HUMPHREY. 


invented. 


HAT  the  life  and  teachings  of  Christ  were  Divine  I 
can  not  doubt,  though  i  can  not  explain.  The  simple 
presentation  alone  of  sucn  a  character  as  Christ,  has 
done   more   good    than   all    the   moral   systems  ever 


*  United  States  Senator  from  Kentucky 


1 84 


A  CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES. 
MAINE. 

EDWIN  C.  BURLEIGH. 

BELIEVE  in  Christ,  and  that  His  glorious  niission 
here  was  to  fully  make  known  God's  love  to  man.  To 
me  the  Bible  is  just  what  it  claims  to  be — the  gjreat 
Book  of  Books,  the  inspired  guide  of  Christendom.  ^ 


MARYLAND. 

ELIHU  E.  JACKSON. 

FIRMLY  believe  the  Bible  to  be  a  Divine  revelation, 
and  accept  the  Apostles'  Creed  as  a  basis  of  my  belief 
in  Christ  (2). 


^^^(^Z^^^^^^-'t^^T^^ 


MASSACHUSETTS. 

EMORY  WASHBURN. 

.0  the  Bible  and  to  the  power  of  its  truths  are  we  far 
more  indebted  than  to  any  other  cause  for  the  pres- 
ervation of  order  throughout  the  land.  Even  our 
cities,  with  a  vastly  increased  police,  without  the 
Bible,  without  Christianity,  could  not  preserve  peace  for  a 
single  year.  The  Book  makes  man  afraid  to  do  wrong 
because  it  teaches  him  that  he  thereby  violates  the  laws  of 
his  conscience  and  his  God.  The  Bible  must  find  its  way 
into  every  family  in  the  country.  Men  must  be  fed  abun- 
dantly on  the  Bread  of  Life. 


A   CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  ,       185 

MICHIGAN. 

CYRUS  G.  LUCE. 

BELIEVE  in  the  eternal  truths  taught  in  the  Scrip- 
tures. Scientific  discovery  fortifies  and  strengthens 
these  truths.  They  have  endured  the  test  of  time 
and  trial,  and,  I  think,  will  endure  to  the  end.    Christ 

came  as  a  part  of  the  Godhead,  as  an  angel  of  mercy,  and 

as  a  living  example  for  a  true  Christian  life. 


MINNESOTA. 

A.  R.  McGlLL 


'HE  Hebrew  is  the  noblest  of  literatures,  and  the  Bible 
is  the  best  of  books.     Its  supreme  interest  culminates 
in  the  ethical  teachings  of  Jesus  Christ ;  but  His  life, 
His  heroism,  His  divine  compassion.  His  atoning  sac- 
rifice are  even  more  than  any  words  He  ever  uttered. 


MISSISSIPPI. 

ROBERT  LOWRY. 


)  I  ESUS  CHRIST  is  equal  with  God,  yet  possessed  with 
a  perfect  human  nature.     He  is  the  Saviour  of  all 
%  who  believe  in  Him. 

Christianity  is  the  religion  of  the  Holy  Scriptures. 
The  Bible  is  the  inspired  Word  of  God,  furnishing  to  man 
a  perfect  law  of  life. 


^^--M^-^i^T/ 


i86 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


MISSOURI. 

DAVID  R.  FRANCIS.^ 

vHE  Bible  is  the  highest  spiritual  expression  of  human-^ 
ity.  To  it  has  turned,  and  shall  ever  turn,  the  soul 
of  the  world. 

The  greatest  tribute  to  Christ  is  that  all  men  of  all 
creeds  concede  Him  to  be  the  Supreme  Type  of  the  Race. 
He  was  not  only  man ;  He  was  The  Man ;  and  verily 
God-Man. 


^ Ot^'y^^-'^^f^'^^^U^ 


MONTANA. 

JOSEPH  K.  TOOLE. 

BELIEVE  in  the  teachings  of  the  Scriptures,  and  in 
Jesus  Christ  as  the  Author  and  Finisher  of  our  Faith.- 


NEBRASKA. 

JOHN  M.  THAYER. 

AM  free  to  say  that  I  believe  Jesus  Christ  to  be  the 
Messiah,  King  of  kings,  Emanuel,  Prince  of  Peace, 
Lord  God  Almighty. 

I  believe  the  Bible  to  be  God's  Holy  Word ;  I  also 

believe  it  to  be  the  fountain  source  of  all  law  and  of  justice, 

the  foundation  of  all  government. 


President  of  the  World's  Fair,  St.  lyouis,  1903. 


A  CLOUD  OF   WITNESSES.  187 

NEVADA. 

^^  C.  C.  STEVENSON. 


^HRIST  is  a  great  Saviour. 
V^       Christianity  is  a  great  Moral  Reformer. 
C^J-^       The  Holy  Scripture  is  a  great  Moral  Code. 


^  <C^  J^Lc^u<^yv^cyy^ 


NEW  HAHPSHIRE. 

HIRAM  A.  TUTTLE. 


^MRIST  was  a  man  in  all  things  except  the  absence  of 
'  S^  sin,  and  the  presence  of  a  mysterious  Godhead  some- 
how ;  I  can  not  tell  how,  any  more  than  I  can  tell 
how  God  exists  in  other  manifestations.  As  a  man 
He  suffered  and  died,  and  was  tempted  just  like  us,  as  He 
said,  and  as  His  apostles  declared.  Yet  God  was  in  Him  in 
such  a  sense  that  we  may  properly  worship  Him  as  God. 
In  becoming  man  the  Godhead  in  Him  was  restricted  so  far 
as  to  subject  Him  to  suffering  and  temptation  like  the  rest 
of  us  ;  herein  consists  His  humiliation,  and  His  fitness  to  be 
a  Saviour  for  us.  I  regard  the  Bible  as  the  Word  of  God, 
and  believe  it  was  written  under  such  Divine  superintend- 
ence as  was  requisite  for  the  proper  expression  of  its  infalli- 
ble truths,  and  their  preservation  from  any  essential  error. 


i/ri:4>i^T^ 


I  will  die  as  becomes  a  Christian !  I  declare,  before  God 
and  man,  that  I  have  never  betrayed  my  country ;  may  my 
death  render  her  happy.  Vive  la  France !  My  comrades, 
fire  on  me  ! — Last  words  of  Marshal  Ney. 


i88 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 
NEW  JERSEY. 

ROBERT  STOCKTON  GREEN. 

AM  by  education  and  conviction  a  believer  in  Christy 
Christianity,  and  the  Bible,  if  one  does  not  neces* 
sarily  include  the  other. 


NEW  YORK. 

ROSWELL  P.  FLOWER. 

BEIvIEVE  in  the  Apostle's  creed  (2). 


'*I  will  tell  you  what  I  have  done,"  he  continued,  taking 
from  the  table  a  morocco-bound  Bible ;  "  I  have  brought  this 
with  me.  I  read  seven  chapters  in  that  Bible  every  week. 
That  is  the  only  way  to  get  a  clear  idea  of  it.  There  are  no 
thumb-marks  in  it  because  I  keep  my  hands  clean,  but  you 
see  I  have  marked  passages  all  the  way  through.  Yes,  that 
old  Book" — and  the  Governor  patted  it  approvingly  as  he 
laid  it  down  on  the  table — ''is  a  good  revised  Bible,  and  I 
have  carried  it  for  a  good  number  of  years." — The  ''^htter 
Ocean^''  September  4,  1893,  in  interview  with  Governor  Flower 
at  the  Columbian  Exposition. 


To  his  Wife  :  "  Remember,  my  Eliza,  you  are  a  Christian.'^' 
• — Last  words  of  Alexander  Hamilton. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  189 

NORTH  CAROLINA. 

ALFRED  M.  SCALES. 

HRIST  is  the  eternal  Son  of  God,  and  the  only  Re- 

C^  deemer  of  the  world.     Christianity  i^  based  on  the 

Divinity  of  Jesus  Christ,  the  Saviour  of  mankind,  and 

the  only  true  religion. 

The  sacred  Scripture   is  the  revealed  will  of    God,  and 

teaches  what  man  is  to  believe  concerning  God,  and  what 

duty  God  requires  of  man.     "  May  the  Word  of  the  Lord 

have  free  course,  and  be  glorified." 


j^y^JcL^ju^ 


OHIO. 

JOSEPH  BENSON  FORAKER.* 

'hRIST  is  Divine,  the  Bible  is  the  Word  of  God,  and 
Christianity  is  the  hope  of  the  world. 


y 


OREGON. 

SYLVESTER  PENNOYER. 

HE  Nicene  creed  is  my  creed  (i). 


^A^ 


When  Sir  Humphrey  Gilbert  went  down  with  his  ship, 
he  said  :  "  The  road  to  heaven  is  as  short  by  sea  as  by  land.** 


United  States  Senator  from  Ohio. 


IQO 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 


PENNSYLVANIA. 

JAMES  A.  BEAVER. 

HRIST,  to  me,  is  a  Divine  Saviour  who  has  made 
<^  atonement  for  the  sins  of  a  lost  race.  Christianity 
is  a  power  whose  influence  and  uplifting  can  be  ac- 
counted for  only  upon  the  hypothesis  of  a  Divine 
origin,  and  of  an  omnipotent  spiritual  force  which  pervades 
and  controls  it.  The  Bible  is  the  revealed  will  of  God,  mer- 
cifully made  known  to  man  for  his  guidance,  obedience,  and 
salvation. 


Ar^^^mf^ 


RHODE  ISLAND. 

ROYAL  C.  TAFT, 


BELIEVE  that  Jesus  Christ  came  to  be  a  propitiation 
for  the  sins  of  the  world,  that  through  Him  all  men 
may  be  saved  if  they  will ;  that  Christianity  and  the 
Bible  in  their  teachings  promote  the  highest  civiliza- 
tion of  the  world. 


SOUTH  CAROLINA. 

JOHN  P.  RICHARDSON 

AM  a  Christian. 


A  CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


191 


SOUTH  DAKOTA. 

A.  C.  MELLETTE. 

CONSIDER  the  Bible  to  be  the  inspiration  and  the 
substance  of  western  civilization,  the  Ten  Command- 
ments having  produced  the  ancient,  and  the  Sermon 
on  the  Mount  the  modern.  Christ  is  the  base  and 
summit,  the  Alpha  and  Omega  of  the  Scriptures.  No  civil- 
ization ever  arose  except  from  a  code  of  religion  accepted 
as  Divine.  No  other  authority  can  fix  the  boundary  be- 
tween the  right  and  the  wrong,  the  basis  law,  morals,  and 
society.  As  the  Gospel  is  loftier  than  all  other  ideals  in  re- 
ligion, so  does  the  Christian  civilization  it  begets  surpass  all 
others. 


TENNESSEE. 

ROBERT  L.  TAYLOR. 

BELIEVE  that  Jesus  Christ  and  the  inspired  Book 
vouchsafe  the  only  true  happiness  in  this  life,  and  the 
only  well-grounded  hope  of  happiness  in  the  life  to 
come.  ^ — ^ 

-A  . 


TEXAS. 


J.  S.  HOGG. 


HAVE  faith  and  am  a  believer  in  both  Christ  and 
the  Bible. 


192 


A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


VERHONT. 


LEVI  K.  FULLER, 

v>S  a  literary  classic,  the  Bible  is  the  richest  of  all  books 


in  all  that  is  beautiful,  noble,  and  precious;  its  Di- 
vine authority  can  not  be  questioned,  and  its  pro- 
found spiritual  significance  is  apprehended  by  those 

who,  through  personal  faith,  come  into  loving  union  with 

the  only  Saviour. 


VIRGINIA. 

JOHN  SERGEANT  WISE, 

.HE  Bible  is  an  inspired  Book ;  its  internal  evidences 
alone  convince  me  of  the  fact ;  Christ  is  the  Son  of 
God;  His  life  was  so  absolutely  different  from  any 
other  person,  and    His  philosophy  so  different  from 

any  that  preceded  it,  that  I  feel  no  doubt  whatever  of  His 

Divinity. 


WASHINGTON. 

ELISHA  P.  FERRY. 

BELIEVE  that   Christ  is  the  Son  of   God;    that  the 

Bible   is   the    Word    of   God,   transmitted    to   us   by 

'^J     Divine   revelation   through    Prophets   and   Apostles. 


i 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  1 93 

WEST  VIRGINIA. 

C.  W.  WILSON. 

Y  the  tests  of  human  evidence  alone,  the  faultless 
purity  of  the  teachings  of  Jesus  Christ,  the  Saviour, 
and  of  the  Bible,  the  inspired  Word,  command,  ir 
reason,  the  first  place  in  human  hearts  anywhere. 


(!:Uo^cnJ^<;^a^ 


WISCONSIN. 

JEREMIAH  McLAIN  RUSK. 

(1830-1893.) 

WAS  reared  by  Christian  parents,  and  taught  to  be- 
lieve in  the  Bible  and  the  teachings  of  Christ.  This 
belief  has  grown  upon  me  in  later  years,  and  I  feel 
that  these  inspired  teachings  are  the  foundation  upon 

which  rests  ever>^thing  good  we  have  as  a  people,  and  without 

which  our  government  could  not  exist. 


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(I)  THE  NICENE  CREED. 

We  believe  in  one  God,  the  Almighty  Father,  maker  of  all 
things  both  visible  and  invisible ;  and  in  one  Lord  Jesus  Christ, 
the  Son  of  God,  begotten  of  the  Father,  very  God  of  very  God, 
begotten,  not  made,  being  of  one  substance  with  the  Father, 
by  whom  all  things  were  made,  who,  for  us  men  and  our  sal- 


194  "  A   CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

vation,  came  down  and  was  made  flesh,  made  man,  suffered, 
and  rose  again  the  third  day,  went  up  into  the  heavens,  and  is 
to  come  down  to  judge  the  quick  and  the  dead ;  and  in  the 
Holy  Ghost. 


(2)  THE  APOSTLES'  CREED. 

I  believe  in  God,  the  Father  Almighty;  .  .  .  and  in  Jesus 
Christ,  His  only  begotten  Son,  our  Lord,  who  was  born  of  the 
Holy  Ghost  and  the  Virgin  Mary,  who  under  Pontius  Pilate 
was  crucified  and  buried,  and  on  the  third  day  rose  from  the 
dead,  ascended  into  heaven,  and  sitteth  at  the  right  hand  of 
the  Father,  whence  He  is  come  to  judge  the  quick  and  the 
dead ;  and  in  the  Holy  Ghost,  the  Holy  Church,  the  remission 
of  sins,  the  resurrection  of  ths  flesh,  everlasting  life. 


SIR  JAMES  ALEXANDER  GRANT, 

Canadian  Physician  and  Geologist. 

'HE  Bible,  the  Book  of  all  books,  is  a  wonderful  rec- 
ord of  Divine  authority.  It  is  undoubtedly  the 
greatest  civilizer  of  the  age.  It  has  an  influence  for 
good  impossible  to  estimate.  Its  resources  are  un- 
bouncfed.  Her  Majesty,  the  Queen  of  England,  said  that 
Britain's  greatness  rested  on  this  basis.  Christ  and  the 
Bible  go  hand  in  hand  in  one  great  line  of  duty,  for  the  last 
benefit  of  humanity.  "  The  Bible  holds  with  Science  the 
doctrine  of  progress  and  development  in  nature."  In  these 
lines  of  thought  there  are  no  truly  conflicting  interests.  The 
more  closely  examined,  the  more  wonderful  in  their  manifes- 
tations. Rich  and  poor  draw  alike  from  the  fountain  which 
will  never  run  dry. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  195 

HENRY  GRATTAN, 

Irish  Orator  and  Statesman.     (1746-1820.) 

F  I  had  not  read  this  Book  before  it  would   be  of  little 
value  to  me   now.      I  can  do  nothing  of  myself.      I 
prostrate  myself,  with  all  my  sins,  at  the  foot  of  the 
Cross,  and  I  trust  to  the  merits  of  my  Redeemer.  —  To 
his  DaiLghter  who  had  been  reading  the  Scriptures  to  him. 


ULYSSES  SIMPSON   GRANT, 

General-in-Chief  during  the  Civil  War ;    Eighteenth  President 
of  the  United  States.     (1822-1885.) 

Washington,  June  6,  1876. 
O  the  Editor  of  the  Sunday -School  Times  ^  Philadel- 
phia: Your  favor  of  yesterday  asking  a  message 
from  me  to  the  children  and  the  youth  of  the  United 
States,  to  accompany  your  Centennial  number,  is 
this  morning  received.  My  advice  to  Sunday-Schools,  no 
matter  what  their  denomination,  is:  Hold  fast  to  the  Bible 
as  the  sheet  anchor  of  your  liberties;  write  its  precepts  in 
your  hearts,  and  practice  them  in  your  lives.  To  the  influ- 
ence of  this  Book  are  we  indebted  for  all  the  progress  made 
in  true  civilization,  and  to  this  must  we  look  as  our  'guide  in 
the  future.  "Righteousness  exalteth  a  nation;  but  sin  is  a 
reproach  to  any  people."  Yours  respectfully, 

U.  S.  Grant. 

I  believe  in  the  Holy  Scriptures,  and  whoso  lives  by 
them  will  be  benefited  thereby.  Men  may  difier  as  to  the 
interpretation,  which  is  human,  but  the  Scriptures  are  man's 
best  guide.  ...  I  did  not  go  riding  yesterday,  although  in- 
vited and  permitted  by  my  physicians,  because  it  was  the 
Lord's  day,  and  because  I  felt  that  if  a  relapse  should  set  in, 
the  people  who  are  praying  for  me  would  feel  that  I  was  not 


196  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

helping  their  faith  by  riding  out  on  Sunday.  .  .  Yes,  I  know, 
and  I  feel  very  grateful  to  the  Christian  people  of  the  land 
for  their  prayers  in  my  behalf.  There  is  no  sect  or  religion, 
as  shown  in  the  Old  or  New  Testament,  to  which  this  does 
not  apply. — Pages  709,  710,  ^''Military  and  Civil  Life  of  Gen- 
eral Ulysses  S.  Grant^^''  by  James  P,  Boyd. 


ASA  GRAY, 

Botanist;  Author  of  Scientific  Text-Books;    Educator. 

ACCEPT  Christianity  on  its  own  evidence.  .     . 

We  shall  agree  in  this,  that  Revelation  culminated, 

^  and  for  us  most  essentially  consists,  in  the  advent  of 
a  Divine  Person,  who,  being  made  man,  manifested 
the  Divine  nature  in  union  with  the  human ;  and  that  this 
manifestation  constitutes  Christianity. 

Having  accepted  the  doctrine  of  incarnation,  itself  the 
crowning  miracle,  attendant  miracles  are  not  obstacles  to  be- 
lief. Their  primary  use  must  have  been  for  those  who  wit- 
nessed tliem.  But  the  very  reason  on  which  scientific  men 
reject  miracles  for  the  carrying  on  of  nature  may  operate  in 
favor  of  miracles  to  attest  an  incoming  of  the  supernatural 
for  moral  ends.  .  .  .  We  may  add  one  more  to  our  con- 
fession :  We  all  of  us  draw  more  from  the  exhaustless  reve- 
lation of  Christ  in  the  Gospels  ;  but  this  should  suffice  for  the 
profession  of  Christianity.  —  Pages  106  and  108,  ^'Natural 
Science  and  Religion^''''  by  Asa  Gray. 


CoRWiN,  Thomas,  United  States  Senator:  The  hardy 
spirits  who  founded  the  sacred  asylum  in  Palestine  were  fired 
with  zeal  that  no  human  effort  could  resist.  They  had 
visited  the  lands  consecrated  by  the  advent  of  the  Messiah. 
They  had  stood  on  the  shores  that  had  seen  the  descent  of  the 
baptismal  dove ;  they  had  sat  down  and  sorrowed  on  the  hills 
of  Judea;  they  had  trembled  at  the  miracles  of  a  God. — Page 
124,  ^^ Life  and  Speeches  of  Thomas  Corwin^''^  edited  by  Josiah 
Morrow. 


SOLDIERS  IN  THE  CIVIL  WAR. 

Major-General  Sickles, 

Page  412. 

Major-General  Howard,  Major-General  Merritt, 

Page  2}9.  Page  ^,e. 

General-in-Chief  Schofield. 

Page  ^p8. 

Major-General  Pleasonton,  Colonel  Wilson, 

Page  j6/.  Page  s'O. 

Major-General  Longstreet, 

Page  2gi. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  197 

HORACE  GREELEY, 

Journalist.     (1811-1872.) 


T  is  impossible  to  men- 
tally  or    socially   en- 
slave a  Bible-readinof 
people.      The   princi- 
ples of  the  Bible  are   the 
groundwork  of  human  free- 
dom. 

Your  reference  to  the 
''  blameless  Christian  wife  " 
— and  what  is  "more  pleas- 
ing in  the  sight  of  God  "? — 
impels  me  to  say  that  I  must  consider  Jesus  of  Nazareth  a 
better  authority  as  to  what  is  Christian  and  what  pleases  God 
than  you  are.  His  testimony  on  the  subject  is  expressed  and 
unequivocal  (Matt.  xix.  9)  that  a  marriage  can  be  ruthfully 
dissolved  because  of  adultery  alone.  You  well  know  that  was 
not  the  law  either  of  the  Jews  or  Romans  in  His  day,  so 
that  He  can  not  have  been  misled  by  custom  or  tradition, 
even  were  it  possible  for  Him  to  have  been  mistaken.  I  be- 
lieve He  was  wholly  right. 

I  am  not,  therefore,  to  be  classed  with  those  who  claim  to 
have  been  converted  from  one  creed  to  another  by  studying 
the  Bible  alone.  Certainly,  upon  re-reading  that  Book  in  the 
light  of  my  new  convictions,  I  found  therein  abundant  proofs 
of  their  correctness  in  the  averments  of  patriarchs,  Genesis 
iii.  15  ;  xii.  3  ;  Prophets,  Isaiah  xxv,  8  ;  Apostles,  Romans  v. 
12-21 ;  viii.  19-21 ;  I.  Cor.  xv.  42-54;  Eph.  i.  8-10  ;  Col.  i. 
19-21 ;  I.  Tim.  2,  3-6  ;  and  of  the  Messiah  Himself,  Matthew 
XV.  13  ;  John  xii.  32.  .  .  .  In  the  light  of  this  faith  the  dark 
problem  of  evil  is  irradiated,  and  virtually  solved.  "  Perfect 
through  suflfering  "  was  the  way  traced  out  by  the  great  Cap- 
tain of  our  Salvation. — Pages  70,  71,  and  559,  Autobiography 
of  Horace  Greeley. 


198  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

JOHN  PERDUE  GRAY, 

Physician;  Thirty  Years  Superintendent  New  York  Insane  Asylum. 

(1825-1886.) 

t 

^HE  strongest  safeguard  against  suicide  is  the  sense  of 
man's  responsibility  to  his  Creator  for  all  human  con- 
duct, including  the  keeping  of  our  lives.  If  the  sense 
of  accountability  to  the  future  is  gone,  no  considera- 
tion of  one's  duty  to  one's  family,  to  society,  or  self  can  ever 
answer  the  arguments  of  the  suicide.  It  is  indeed  conscience 
which  makes  cowards  of  us  all ;  but  it  is  also  the  voice  which 
points  us  to  the  higher  responsibility  for  all  our  acts.  Let 
me  warn  you  against  the  teachings  of  any  so-called  philoso- 
phy and  sentimentalism  which  tends  to  disregard  of  the  Di- 
vine truths  of  the  Bible,  and  of  our  Lord  and  Saviour  Jesus 
Christ. — From  a  letter  of  Mrs.  Mary  F.  Gray  to  S.  A.  N. 


SIMON  GREENLEAF, 

Jurist;  Professor  of  Law  in  Harvard  College. 
(1783-1853.) 

F  the  Divine  character  of  the  Bible,  I  think  no  man 
who  deals  honestly  with  his  own  mind  and  heart  can 
f^^  entertain  a  reasonable  doubt.  For  myself,  I  must 
say,  that  having  for  many  years  made  the  evidences 
of  Christianity  the  subject  of  close  study,  the  result  has  been 
a  firm  and  increasing  conviction  of  the  authenticity  and 
plenary  inspiration  of  the  Bible.  It  is  indeed  the  Word  of 
God. — From  correspondence  with  the  America^t  Bible  Society y 
Cambridge^  November  6,  1852. 

The  character  they  portrayed  is  perfect.  It  is  the  charac- 
ter of  a  sinless  Being — One  supremely  wise  and  supremely 
good.  .  .  .  The  doctrines  and  precepts  of  Jesus  are  in 
strict  accordance  with  the  attributes  of  God,  agreeable  to  the 
most  exalted  ideas  which  we  can  form  of  them,  from  reason 
or  revelation.     They  are  strictly  adapted  to  the  capacities  of 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  199 

mankind,  and  yet  are  delivered  with  a  simplicity  wholly  Di- 
vine. "He  spake  as  never  man  spake.''  He  spake  with 
authority,  yet  addressed  Himself  to  the  reason  and  under- 
standing of  men,  and  He  spake  with  wisdom  which  men 
could  neither  gainsay  nor  resist. — ^^  Ex  animation  of  the  Testi- 
mojty  of  the  Fottr  Evangelists  by  the  Rules  of  Evidence  Ad- 
ministered in  Courts  of  fustice^  with  an  Accou7tt  of  the  Trial 
of  fesus^^^  by  Sittion  Greeiileaf, 


OLiNTHUS  GILBERT  GREGORY, 

English  Mathematician  and  Philosopher.     (1774-1841.) 

<HE    Divine  nature  of  Jesus  Christ  was  foretold  by 
some  of  the  prophets,  either  explicitly  when  speak- 
ing of  the  Messiah,  or  by  describing  works  and  char- 
acteristics of  God,  which  the  Apostles  have  declared 
were  referable  to  Jesus  Christ. 

II.  The  prophecies,  miracles,  language,  and  conduct  of 
Jesus  Christ  furnish  indubitable  proof  of  His  Divinity. 

III.  The  testimony  of  the  Apostles  is  decidedly  in  favor 
of  the  Divinity  of  our  Lord. 

The  prevailing  opinion  among  Christians  during  the  first 
three  centuries  was,  that  Jesus  Christ  was  really  a  Divine 
Person  and  not  a  mere  man. — Chapter  XV  of  ''^ Letters  on  the 
Evidences^  Doctrines^  and  Duties  of  the  Christian  Religioii^'' 
by  Olinthus  Gregory. 


THOMAS  SMITH  GRIMKE, 

Lawyer  and  Philanthropist.     (1786-1834.) 

HERE  is  a  classic,  the  best  the  world  has  ever  seen, 

the  noblest  that  has  ever  honored  and  dignified  the 

language  of  mortals.     If  we  look  into  its  antiquity^ 

we   discover  a  title   to   our  veneration,  unrivaled  in 

our  history  of  literature.     If  we  have  respect  to  its  evidences, 


200  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

they  are  found  in  the  testimony  of  miracle  and  prophecy ;  in 
the  ministry  of  man,  of  nature,  and  of  angels;  yea,  even  of 
''  God  manifest  in  the  flesh,"  of  "God  blessed  forever."  If 
we  consider  its  authenticity,  no  other  pages  have  survived 
the  lapse  of  time  that  can  be  compared  with  it.  If  we  ex- 
amine its  authority,  for  it  speaks  as  never  man  spake,  we  dis- 
cover that  it  came  from  heaven  in  vision  and  prophecy, 
under  the  sanction  of  Him  who  is  the  Creator  of  all  things. 
If  we  reflect  upon  its  truths,  they  are  lovely  and  spotless, 
sublime  and  holy  as  God  himself,  unchangeable  as  His  na- 
ture, durable  as  His  righteous  dominion,  and  versatile  as  the 
moral  condition  of  mankind. — See  his  published  addresses  on 
^^ Science^  Education^  and  Liter aturey 


HUGO  GROTIUS, 

Dutch  Jurist  and  Author.     (  1583-1645.) 

>HERE  is  no  reason  for  Christians  to  doubt  the  credi- 
bility of  these  Books  (of  the  Bible),  because  there  are 
tCvStimonies  in  our  books  out  of  almost  every  one  of 
them,  the  same  as  they  are  found  in  the  Hebrew. 
Nor  did  Christ,  when  He  reproved  many  things  in  the  teach- 
ings of  the  Law,  and  in  the  Pharisees  of  His  time,  ever  ac- 
cuse them  of  falsifying  the  Books  of  Moses  and  the  Prophets, 
or  of  using  supposititious  or  altered  books.  And  it  can  never 
be  proved,  or  made  credible,  that  after  Christ's  time  the 
Scripture  should  be  corrupted  in  anything  of  moment,  if  we 
consider  how  far  and  wide  the  Jewish  nation,  who  every- 
where kept  these  Books,  was  dispersed  over  the  whole  world. 
— See  "  The  Truth  of  the  Christian  Religion ^^^  by  Hugo  Gro- 
tius. 

Christoph  Ritter  Gluck  (17 14-1787).  Inscribed  in 
red  marble  at  Metzleinsdorf  are  these  words:  ''Here  rests 
an  upright  German.  A  zealous  Christian.  A  faithful 
spouse.      Of  the  "noble  art  of  Music,  a  great  Master." 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


20  r 


FRANCOIS  PIERRE  GUILLAUME  GUIZOT, 

French  Historian  and  Statesman.     ( 1787-1874.) 


T  was  not  in  memory 

of   old    and    obsolete 

mythologies,  but  in 

the  name  of  recent 
deeds  and  persons,  in  obe- 
dience to  laws  proceeding 
from  God,  One  and  Univer- 
sal, in  fulfillment  and  con- 
tinuation of  a  contemporary 
and  superhuman  history — 
that  of  Jesus  Christ,  the 
Son  of  God  and  the  Son  of 
man — that  Christians  of  the  first  two  centuries  labored  to 
convert  to  their  faith  the  whole  Roman  world. — Page  89, 
Volume  /,  ^''History  of  France^''  by  F.  P.  G.  Guizot, 

I  believe  in  God,  and  worship  Him  without  attempting  to 
understand  Him.  I  see  His  presence  and  His  actions,  not 
only  in  the  unchangeable  laws  of  the  universe,  and  in  the 
secret  life  of  the  soul,  but  in  the  history  of  human  society, 
and  especially  in  the  Old  and  New  Testaments — these  rec- 
ords of  revelation  and  of  the  Divine  action  of  the  mediation 
and  sacrifice  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  for  the  salvation  of  the 
human  race.  I  bow  before  the  mysteries  of  the  Bible  and 
the  Gospel,  and  refrain  from  the  discussions  and  scientific 
solutions  by  means  of  which  men  have  tried  to  explain 
them.  I  have  a  firm  faith  that  God  allows  me  to  call  myself 
a  Christian. — Page  17,  ^'"Monsieur  Qui  sot  in  Private  Life^ 
1 787-1874,"  by  his  daicghter^  Madame  De  Witt;  translated  by 
M,  C,  M,  Simpson. 


Baron  von  Humboldt's  dying  words:    ^'  How  grand  these 
rays!     They  seem  to  beckon  earth  to  Heaven." 


202  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

JOHANN  GUTENBERG,  i 

Q  ^  German  Inventor  of  Printing.     (1400-1468.) 

OD  suffers  in  the  multitude  of  souls  whom  His  word 
can  not  reach.  Religious  truth  is  imprisoned  in  a 
small  number  of  manuscript  books  which  confine 
instead  of  spread  the  public  treasure.  Let  us  break 
the  seal  which  seals  up  holy  things  and  give  wings  to 
Truth  in  order  that  she  may  win  every  soul  that  comes  into 
the  world  by  her  word  no  longer  written  at  great  expense  by 
hands  easily  palsied,  but  multiplied  like  the  wind  by  an 
untiring  machine. 

Yes,  it  is  a  press,  certainly,  but  a  press  from  which  shall 
flow  in  inexhaustible  streams  the  most  abundant  and  most 
marvelous  liquor  that  has  ever  flowed  to  relieve  the  thirst  of 
men.  Through  it,  God  will  spread  His  word;  a  spring  of 
pure  truth  shall  flow  from  it;  like  a  new  star  it  shall  scatter 
the  darkness  of  ignorance,  and  cause  a  light  hithertofore  un- 
known to  vshine  among  men. — Pages  277  and  2'^^^''''  Mem- 
ories of  Celebrated  Characters  ^^^  by  Alp  house  De  Lamar  tine. 


ARNOLD  GUYOT, 

Geologist  and  Naturalist.     (1807-1884.) 

AY  my  brother  scientist,  as  well  as  the  believer  in 
J  ^d.  the  Bible,  find  in  the  following  pages  new  reasons  for 
accepting  the  truths  contained  in  this  sacred  docu- 
ment as  the  revelation  of  a  God  of  love  to  man. 
''Through  faith  we  understand  the  worlds  were  framed  by 
the  word  of  God."  Hence  the  necessity  of  a  direct  revela- 
tion of  these  fundamental  truths,  to  which  human  wisdom 
could  not  attain  in  any  other  way,  and  which,  without  the 
sanction  of  God's  Word,  were  doomed  to  remain  simple 
"  hypothesis,  incapable  of  proof. 

We  often  hear  paleontologists  looking  sedulously  for  the 
missing  link  between  man  and  the  animal.     They  forget  that 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES.  203 

in  the  sense  of  which  they  speak  there  can  be  no  link  want- 
ing. The  figure  and  the  structure  of  the  ape  is  as  near  as 
need  be  to  be  called  a  link  between  man  and  the  animal; 
the  difference  between  the  two  beings  is  not  in  the  shape  of 
a  thumb,  or  in  any  particular  bodily  organ,  but  in  the  moral 
nature.  An  animal  as  beautiful  in  form  as  Apollo  Belvi- 
dere,  but  not  possessed  of  the  sense  of  the  invisible,  would 
still  be  an  animal  and  nothing  more.  A  poor,  misshapen 
Hottentot,  endowed  with  these  spiritual  faculties,  rendering 
him  capable  of  becoming  a  living  member  of  the  spiritual 
world,  through  faith  in  Christ,  would  still  be  a  man,  belong-^ 
ing  to  the  upper  plane  of  life,  and  bound  to  his  Maker  by 
ties  of  love  and  adoration. — See  Preface^  Chapters  V  and 
XIV  of  ^'  Creation^  or  the  Biblical  Cosmogony  in  the  Light  of 
Modern  Science ^'^'^  by  Arnold  Gtiyot. 


LORD  HADDO, 

Fifth  Earl  of  Aberdeen.     (1816-1860.) 

THANK  God  that  death  had  not  come  six  years  ago, 
before  I  underwent  that  sudden  and  entire  change  in 
my  religious  views  and  feelings.  I  think  much  of 
the  many  assurances  that  the  blood  of  Christ  cleanses 
from  all  sin.  ...  If  we  are  His  disciples  and  are  desir- 
ous of  leaving  all  for  His  sake,  we  are  perfectly  safe. 
— Page  197,  **  Turning  Points  in  the  Lives  of  Eminent  Chris- 
tians^ ' '  by  Mary  E.  Beck, 


HENRY  L  HOWISON, 

Rear-Admiral. 


HAVE  been  and  am  now  impressed  with  the  belief  that 
naval  men  as  a  body  are  believers  in  Christianity  and 
its  Book.  My  belief  in  the  Divinity  of  Jesus  Christ 
is  assured  and  firm.  ^^ 


204  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

SAMUEL  CHRISTIAN  FRIEDRICH 
HAHNEMANN, 

German  Physician,  Founder  of  the  Homoeopathic  System. 

G^  (1755-1843.) 

^  ^FKFFEL  and  Euler  must  lose  their  sight  in  order  to 
*^  ^C^  surpass  the  most  of  their  fellow  beings  in  poetical 
and  mathematical  talent;  and  if  we  had  space  we 
might  adduce  many  other  examples  of  benefits  de- 
rived from  injurious  things,  to  the  glory  of  Christ. — Page 
\%2  of  his  ^^ Lesser  Writing s.^^ 

Whilst  suffering  much  from  the  pain  and  difficulty  of 
breathing  during  his  last  illness,  his  wife  said  to  him,  "As 
you  in  your  laborious  life  have  alleviated  the  sufferings  of 
so  many,  and  have  yourself  endured  so  much,  surely  Provi- 
dence owes  you  a  remission  of  all  your  sufferings."  To 
which  the  follower  of  the  Great  Physician  replied:  "Me  !  and 
why  mer  Each  man  here  below  works  according  to  the 
gifts  and  strength  Providence  hath  given  him,  and  it  is  only 
before  the  fallible  tribunal  of  man  that  degrees  of  merit  are 
acknowledged,  not  so  before  that  of  God ;  God  owes  me  noth- 
ing, but  I  owe  Him  much,  yes,  everything!" — ^^ Lectures  on 
Theory  and  Practice  of  Homoeopathy ^^^  by  Doctor  Dudgeon^ 
London^  1853. 

F.  T.  HAIG, 

English  Major-General. 

HAT  is  the  spiritual  condition  of  these  millions? 
There  is  not  one  of  them  that  God  has  not  loved  ; 
there  is  not  one  of  them  for  whom  Christ  did  not 
die;  there  is  not  one  of  them  that  goes  down 
into  darkness  but  the "  very  tears  of  Christ  are,  as  it  were, 
falling  upon  his  head.  When  we  come  to  this  question,  we 
want  to  look  at  it  as  Christ  sees  it ;  we  want  to  look  at  it  from 
the  point  of  view  of  eternity-     We  must  get  alone  with  it 


A   CLOUD  OF  WITNESSES.  205 

and  our  Bibles,  and  we  must  answer  it.  Shame  on  us,  when 
we  look  at  the  wonderful,  inconceivable  love  of  God  toward 
these*  lost  ones,  and  then  look  at  our  own  hearts  !  God  has 
shown  us  that  there  is  nothing  that  He  will  not  do,  or  give, 
or  suffer,  that  men  may  be  saved  ;  and  yet  in  spite  of  all 
that  infinite  wealth  of  love,  men  are  going  dowi;  to  death 
because  you  and  I  do  not  tell  them  of  the  Gospel. — From 
his  address^  '^  The  Claim  of  India^''  delivered  at  a  missionary 
conference^  Manchester^  and  published  by  the  Missionary 
Church  Society^  London, 


SIR  MATTHEW  HALE, 

Lord  Chief-Justice  of  England.     (  1609-1676.) 

.VERY  morning  read  seriously  and  reverently  a  por- 
tion of  the  Holy  Scriptures,  and  acquaint  yourselves 
with  the  history  and  doctrine  thereof;  it  is  a   Book 
full   of  light  and  wisdom,   and  will   make  you  wise 
unto  eternal  life. 

Who  was  it  that  thus  suffered  ?  It  was  Christ  Jesus,  the 
eternal  Son  of  God,  clothed  in  our  flesh ;  God  and  Man 
united  in  one  person  ;  His  manhood  giving  Him  capacity 
for  suffering,  and  His  Godhead  giving  a  value  to  sufifering ; 
and  each  nature  united  in  one  person  to  make  a  complete 
Redeemer;  the  Heir  of  all  things;  the  Prince  of  Life;  the 
Light  that  lighteneth  every  man  that  cometh  into  the  world. 
As  touching  His  Divine  nature,  God  over  all,  blessed  forever ; 
and  as  touching  His  human  nature,  full  of  grace  and  truth ; 
and  in  both,  the  beloved  Son  of  the  eternal  God,  in  whom 
He  proclaimed  Himself  well  pleased. — Pages  56  and  70, 
Volume  IV,  ''British  Plutarch:' 


The  Eighth  Earl  of  Kinnoull  (  •  •  .  ^l^l)'-  They 
who  strive  to  remove  the  atonement  of  Christ  from  the  Word 
of  God  do  an  irreparable  injury  to  the  comforts  and  hopes  of 
man.  My  time  in  this  world  is  now  short,  but,  with  truth  I 
can  declare  my  heart  is  supported  by  a  firm  reliance  upon 
inv  Saviour. — In  Conversation  with  Doctor  Rempy  Edinburgh^ 
December  2'].  1787. 


206  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

ALBERT  VON  HALLER, 

Swiss  Anatomist  and  Physiologfst.     (1708-1777.) 

OD  has  given  me  a  Book  to  warn  and  instruct  me. 
But  does  my  heart  recognize  the  Divine  voice? 
Saviour  of  the  world,  Thou  hast  shed  Thy  blood  for 
all  mankind.  Give  me  to  know  Thee ! 
I  read  the  Bible  and  study  the  life  of  the  Saviour  suffer- 
ing for  us,  and  then  begin  to  think  of  my  plants  and  a  thou- 
sand useless  things.  If  a  journal  comes  in,  I  leave  the  Word 
of  God  and  read  till  the  holy  seed  is  choked,  so  that  but  the 
smallest  grain  remains  in  the  heart. 

On  the  borders  of  eternity  I  see  nothing  that  can  assure 
me  of  my  destiny,  but  the  certainty  of  a  Mediator  who  has 
paid  my  debt  and  given  me  ground  to  believe  that  God  is 
reconciled  to  me,  and  will  pardon  my  faults,  and  the  multi- 
tude of  my  sins  of  which  I  have  been  guilty  during  the 
course  of  a  long  life. — -/.  Risdon  Bennett^  Volume  VIII^ 
''  Short  Biographies  for  the  People.  ^^ 


LORD  HALSBURY, 

The  Right  Honorable  Lord  High  Chancellor  of 
England. 

HO  fears  the  investigations  made  by  science  into 
the  creation  of  the  world?  It  has  proceeded  from 
the  same  Author  as  the  Scriptures.  The  one 
Author  will  be  found  true  in  both.  And  if  there 
is  any  question  which  seems  for  the  moment  to  make  science 
not  in  accord  with  Revelation,  then  all  that  we  can  say  is 
that  we  are  sorry  for  science. 

I  do  not  suppose  in  the  history  of  the  world  there  has  ever 
been  a  time  when  it  was  more  necessary,  not  only  for  the 
advocates  of  the  Bible  and  Christianity  to  be  on  their  guard, 
but  for  all  those  whose  duty  it  is  to  encounter  the  learned 
ignorance  of  our  time.     I  believe  to  the  uninstructed  mind — - 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  207 

the  simple  mind  of  him  who  is  only  seeking  after  truth  in  a 
reverent,  humble  spirit — the  Bible  itself  is  its  own  best  ex- 
ponent, its  own  best  proof. 

I  think  we  may  safely,  all  of  us,  believe  the  Bible,  though 
we  may  not  always  believe  what  people  say  about  it,  which 
is  a  very  different  thing.  .  .  .In  reading  the  Bible,  as 
in  reading  any  other  book,  remember  that  language  is  but  a 
feeble  instrument  of  human  thought,  and  that  you  must 
understand  the  Bible  in  the  sense  in  which  it  is  written.  I 
advise  you  not  to  believe  what  a  writer  of  novels  or  any  one 
else  may  say  about  the  Bible ;  read  it,  try  to  understand  it, 
and  the  Bible  will  make  you  free. — Selections  from  a  speech 
while  chairman  of  the  Twenty -Second  Annual  Meeting  of  the 
Christian  Evidence  Society. 

When  new  attacks  were  made  on  Christianity,  and  I  looked 
about  me  and  found  symptoms  of  hostility  to  the  Word  of 
God,  I  recognized  the  fact  that  in  past  days  there  have  been 
the  same  attacks,  and  yet  the  Word  of  Promise  abides  that 
"the  gates  of  hell  shall  not  prevail  against  it."  I  believe 
that  the  weapon  that  must  conquer  is  "the  Sword  of  the 
Spirit,  which  is  the  Word  of  God."  I  am  the  last  one  to 
depreciate  the  use  of  our  reason.  We  are  given  our  reason 
to  examine  and  prove  all  things  and  "to  hold  fast  that  which 
is  good."  But  it  is  impossible  not  to  know  that  there  is  a 
self- worship,  a  sort  of  deifying  the  intellect  of  man  above  the 
Revelation  of  God;  and  when  that  evil  prevails  amongst  us, 
let  us  draw  back  to  the  first  fountain,  to  the  pure  water  of 
the  well  of  life,  which  comes  from  the  Word  of  God,  and  it 
will  sweep  away  all  this  evil. — Extract  from  an  address  at 
the  Eighty-fourth  Anniversary  of  the  British  and  Foreign 
Bible  Society^  London^  fune^  1888. 


VISCOUNT  HILL, 

Commander-in  Chief  of  the  British  Army,  1828-1842.     "  The  Right  Arm  of 
the  Duke  of  Wellington."    (1772-1842.) 

HE  name  of  the  Saviour  is  a  cordial  to  me  in  this  dis- 
tressing, weak  state.  ** Other  foundation  can  no  man 
lay,  than  that  is  laid,  which  is  Jesus  Christ." — Page 
386,  ''''Life  of  Lord  Hill^^''  by  Edward  Sidney. 


2o8 


A  CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES. 


ALEXANDER  HAMILTON, 

Lawyer ;  Statesman ;  Secretary  of  Treasury  under  President  Washington. 

(1757-1804.) 


HAVE  a  tender  reli- 
ance upon  the  mer- 
cy of  the  Almighty, 
through  the  merits  of 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ.   I  am 
a  sinner.     I  look  to  Him  for 
mercy;  pray  for  me. — Page 
252,    "  American     Christian 
Rulers^''''  by  Edward  J.  Gid- 
dings. 

Let  an  association  be 
formed,  to  be  denominated 
"The  Christian  Constitu- 
tional Society."  Its  object  to  be,  first,  the  support  of  the 
Christian  religion ;  second,  the  support  of  the  Constitution  of 
the  United  States. — Page  267,  American  Statesmen  Series,, 
''^Alexander  Hamilton,,'*''  by  Henry  Cabot  Lodge. 

I  have  carefully  examined  the  evidences  of  the  Christian 
religion,  and  if  I  was  sitting  as  a  juror  upon  its  authenticity 
I  would  unhesitatingly  give  my  verdict  in  its  favor.  I  can 
prove  its  truth  as  clearly  as  any  proposition  ever  submitted 
to  the  mind  of  man. — Page  126,  ''^Famous  American  States- 
men^^'' by.  Sarah  K.  Bolton, 

Mortals  hastening  to  the  tomb,  and  once  the  companions 
of  my  pilgrimage,  take  warning,  and  avoid  my  errors.  Cul- 
tivate the  virtues  I  have  recommended.  Choose  the  Saviour 
I  have  chosen.  Live  disinterestedly,  and  would  you  rescue 
anything  from  final  dissolution,  lay  it  up  in  God. — From 
President  Notfs  Eulogy  of  Alexander  Hamilton. 


The  last  words  of  Burke,  Sir  Robert  Peel,  and  Wordsworth 
were  :     *'  God  bless  you!" 


A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES.  209 

SIR  WILLIAM  HAMILTON, 

^r,n  Scottish   Antiquary.     ( 1730-1803.) 

Science  is  fatal  to  superstition.  It  is  a  fortification 
of  Scriptural  faith.  The  Bible  is  the  bravest  of 
books ;  coming  from  God,  and  conscious  of  nothing 
but  God's  truth,  it  waits  the  progress  of  knowledge 
with  calm  security.  It  watches  the  antiquarian  ransacking 
among  classic  ruins,  and  rejoices  in  every  medal  he  discovers 
and  every  inscription  he  deciphers ;  for,  from  that  rusty  coin 
or  corroded  marble  it  expects  nothing  but  confirmation  of 
its  own  veracity.  In  the  unlocking  of  an  Egyptian  hiero- 
glyphic, or  in  the  unearthing  of  some  implement,  it  hails  the 
resurrection  of  so  many  witnesses ;  and  with  sparkling  ela- 
tion it  follows  the  botanist  as  he  scales  Mt.  Lebanon,  or  the 
zoologist  as  he  makes  acquaintance  with  the  beasts  of  the 
Syrian  desert,  or  the  traveler  as  he  stumbles  on  along  lost 
Petra,  or  Nineveh,  or  Babylon ;  and  from  the  march  of  time 
it  fears  no  evil,  but  calmly  abides  the  fulfillment  of  those 
prophecies,  and  the  forthcoming  of  those  events  with  whose 
predicted  story  inspiration  has  already  inscribed  in  its  pages. 
It  is  not  light,  but  darkness,  the  Bible  deprecates ;  and  if 
men  of  science  were  to  search  the  Scriptures,  there  would  be 
more  faith  in  the  earth. — From  President  Swain^s  Lecture 
{Indiana  University)  on  ^''Science  and  Religion^ 


SIR  WILLIAM  HAMILTON, 

Scottish  Philosopher  and  Metaphysician. 
(1788-1856.) 

EVELATION  is  a  revelation  to  man,  and  concern- 
ing man  ;  and  man  is  only  the  object  of  revelation, 
inasmuch  as  he  is  a  moral,  a  free,  a  responsible  be- 
ing. The  Scriptures  are  replete  with  testimonies 
to  our  natural  liberty.  .  .  .  Man  was  originally  created  with 
a  will  capable  of  good  and  evil,  though  this  will,  subsequently 


2IO  A   CLOUD   OF  'WITNESSES. 

to  the  fall,  has  lost  much  of  its  primitive  liberty.  Christian- 
ity thus,  by  universal  confession,  supposes  as  a  condition  the 
moral  nature  of  its  objects- Page  30,  ''''Lectures  on  Meta- 
physics ^^^  by  Sir  William  Hamilton. 

Above  all,  however,  I  am  confirmed  in  my  belief,  by  the 
harmony  between  this  doctrine  and  the  Revealed  Truth. 
Credo  equidem  nee  vana  fides.  .  .  .  The  foundation  of  our 
philosophy  is  humility ;  for  it  is  professedly  a  scientific 
demonstration  of  that  "  wisdom  in  high  matters  "  which  the 
Apostle  prohibits  us  even  to  attempt,  and  it  purposes,  from 
the  limitations  of  the  human  powers,  for  our  impotence  to 
show  articulately  why  "the  secret  things  of  God"  can  not 
but  be  to  man  past  finding  out.  Humility  thus  becomes  the 
cardinal  virtue,  not  only  of  Revelation  but  of  Reason.  This 
scheme  proves,  moreover,  that  no  difficulty  emerges  in  theol- 
ogy which  had  not  previously  emerged  in  philosophy ;  that, 
in  fact,  if  the  divines  do  not  transcend  what  it  has  pleased  the 
Deity  to  reveal,  and  willfully  identify  the  doctrines  *of  God's 
Word  with  some  arrogant  extreme  of  human  speculation, 
philosophy  will  be  found  the  most  useful  auxiliary  of  the- 
ology.—  Pag-e  312,  ''''Philosophy  of  Sir  Williain  Hamilton^ 
Professor  of  Logic  and  Metaphysics  in  Edinburgh  Univer- 
sity^'' arranged  and  edited  by  O.  W,  Wright 


SIR  WILLIAM  ROWAN  HAMILTON, 

Irish  Astronomer  and  Geometer.     (1805-1865.  j 

i=y:X  Observatory,  April  3,  1863. 

cA  ^^^  Dear  Aubrey  :*    ...  I   have  just   been   reading 
.  ^JL.  your  Hymn  .  .  .  It  is  a  comfort,  these  Colenso  days, 
Q^^^  to  have  an  opportunity   of  refreshing,  by  a  perusal 
of  it,  a  sympathy  so  sincere  in  the  most  vital  doc- 
trines of  Christianity,  which  we  both  profess  to  believe : 

■^The  above  letter  was  written  by  Sir  WilHam  Rowan  Hamilton  to 
Aubrey  DeVere,  the  poet. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  211 

"  O  Lamb  of  God!  on  whom  alone 
Earth's  penal  weight  of  .sin  was  thrown. 
Have  mercy,  Saviour,  on  Thine  own ; 
For  Thou  art  Man.     The  Virgin  gave 
To  Thee  her  breast,  the  earth  a  grave. 

"  O  Lamb  of  God!  on  whom  was  laid  , 

The  debt  of  all  worlds  never  paid. 
Have  mercy.  Saviour!  hear  and  aid; 
For  thou  art  God 

"  Thus,  Christ,  we  turn  from  all  to  Thee, 
Miserere  Domine'^ 

The  "  For  'Thou  art  Man,"  the  ''  For  Thou  art  God,"  and 
the  closing  '-^Misemre Domine^^  appear  to  be  the  most  practical 
teachings  of  the  Christian  religion  ;  or,  let  me  say  with  greater 
reverence,  among  the  most,  if  it  be  presumptuous  and  hazard- 
ous to  distinguish. 

These  words  may  be  seen  on  his  monument : 

"  Here  lie  the  mortal  remains  of 

Sir  William  Rowan  Hamilton,  LL.  D., 

Royal  Astronomer  of  Ireland. 

He  was  born  Aug.  4,  1805. 

He  died  Sept  2   1865. 

'  In  the  love  of  God,  looking  for 

the  mercy  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ 

unto  Eternal  \M^'  —Jude  21.'' 

— ^''Biography  of  Sir  William  Rowan  Hamilton^''''  by  Robert 
Percival  Greves^  Volume  III. 


JOHN  HAMPDEN, 

English  Statesman.     (1594-1643  ) 


HOUGH  I  could  not  away  with  the  governance  of  the 
Church    by   bishops,    I    think   its   doctrines   in    the 
greater   part   primitive   and   conformable   to    God's 
Word,  as  in  Holy  Scriptures  revealed. 
Save  me,  O  Lord,  if  it  be  Thy  good  will,  from  the  jaws  of 


212 


A   CLOUJ)   OF   WITNESSES. 


death.  Pardon  my  manifold  trangressions,  O  Lord!  .  .  . 
Lord  Jesus,  receive  my  soul!  O  Lord,  save  my  country! 
O  Lord,  be  merciful  to  .  .  .  ! — Last  words.  Page  381, 
''''Memorials  of  John  Hampden^  His  Party ^  and  His  Times ^'* 
by  Lord  Nugent. 


GEORGE  FRIEDRICH  HANDEL, 

German  Musical  Composer.     (1685-1759.) 

E  once  said 
to  a  friend, 
speaking 
of  compos- 
ing the  Hallelujah 
Chorus    in    the 
"Messiah," ''I  did 
think  I  did  see  all 
heaven  before  me, 
and  the  great  God 
Himself." 

An  account  of 
his  last  days,  told 
by  an  eyewitness, 
is  here  given: 
"  He  was  bright 
as  usual, but  when 
the  performance 
of  the  ''Messiah"  was  over  he  was  taken  with  faintness,  which 
he  at  once  felt  was  the  beginning  of  the  end.  He  was  taken 
home  and  put  to  bed,  and  never  rose  again.  His  medical 
attendant  said  that  the  dying  man  had  a  great  desire  to  de- 
part on  Friday,  "in  hopes,"  to  quote  his  own  words,  "of 
meeting  his  good  God,  his  sweet  (precious)  Saviour,  on  the 
day  of  His  resurrection."  A  personal  friend  and  legatee,  re- 
ferring to  his  closing  hours,  says:  "He  died  as  he  lived,  a 
good   Christian,  with   a  true   sense  of  his   duty  to  God  and 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES.  213 

man,  and  in  perfect  charity  with  all  the  world."  A  descrip- 
tion of  his  statue  in  this  connection  is  in  place :  In  the 
upper  part  of  the  arch  there  is  an  angel  playing  on  a  harp, 
and  in  the  background  an  organ.  The  composer  stands  up 
as  if  listening,  with  a  pen  in  hand,  and  his  left  resting  on  a 
score  of  the  "  Messiah,"  on  which  the  first  bars  of  "  I  know 
that  my  Redeemer  liveth,"  may  be  traced. — ^''The  World^s 
Workers ^^^  by  Eliza  Clark. 


JONAS  HANWAY, 

English  Traveler  and  Philanthropist.     (1712-1786.) 

A  '^^TIS  religious  thoughts  are  brought  out  in  an  inscrip- 
\  p1  tion  which  he  had  cut  in  a  brass  plate  at  the  age  of 
°\y^  fifty-one.     The  following  is  the  text : 

I  believe  that  my  Redeemer  liveth, 

And  that  I  shall  also  rise  from 

The  grave. 

Jonas  Han  way, 

Who,  trusting  in  that  good  Providence 

Which  so  visibly  governs  the  world, 

Passed  through  a  variety  of  fortunes  with 

Patience. 

Living  the  greater  part  of  his  days 

In  foreign  lands  ruled  by  arbitrary  power, 

He  received  the  deeper  impression 

Of  the  happy  constitution  of  his  own  country ; 

Whilst 

The  persuasive  laws  contained  in  the 

New  Testament, 

And  the  consciousness  of  his  own  depravity. 

Softened  his  heart  to  a  sense 

Of  the  various  wants  of  his 

Fellow  creatures. 

Reader, 

Inquire  no  further. 

The  Lord  have  mercy  on  his  soul  and  thine ! 

^ — See  "  Remarkable  Occurrences  in  the  Life  of  Jonas  Hanway^ 

1787." 


214  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

FRIEDRICH  VON  HARDENBERG, 

German  Author  and  Philosopher.     (1772-1801.) 

^HE  history  of  Christ  is  as  surely  poetry  as  it  is  his- 
tory.    Sin  is  indeed  the  real  evil  in  the  world.     All 
calamity  proceeds  from  that.     He  who  understands 
sin  understands  virtue,  Christianity,  himself,  and  the 
world. 

The  Bible  begins  gloriously  with  Paradise,  the  symbol  of 
youth,  and  ends  with  the  everlasting  kingdom,  with  the  holy 
city.     The  history  of  every  man  should  be  a  Bible. 

Christianity  is  opposed  to  enjoyments  in  the  proper  sense. 
It  goes  forth  from  the  common  man.  It  inspires  the  great 
majority  of  the  limited  on  the  earth.  It  is  the  germ  of  all 
democracy,  the  highest  fact  in  the  domain  of  the  popular. — 
Quotations  from  ''^The  Fragments ^ 


WILLIAM  HARKNESS, 

Astronomer,   and    President    of    the    American    Association,  for   the 
Advancement  of  Science. 

N  reply  to  your  inquiry,  ^'  What  think  ye  of  Christ  and 
the  Book?  "  I  am  happy  to  say  that  I  accept  the  Bible 
as  the  Word  of  God,  and  the  teachings  of  Jesus  Christ 
and  His  apostles  set  forth  therein. 


1f ^  i4iw)Coo4^. 


WILLIAM  RAINEY  HARPER, 

President  of  the  University  of  Chicago. 

HE  books  of  the  Holy  Scripture  form  the  record  of  a 

progressive  series  of  revelations  of  God  to  men,  made 

partly  through  events  of  history  of  which  God  was  a 

preeminent  factor,  and  partly  through  men  who  were 

recipients  of  Divine  communications  or  otherwise  specially 


LEADING   SCIENTISTS   OF   GREAT  BRITAIN. 


SIR  ANDREW  CLARK, 

Page  8s. 

SIR   HUMPHREY   DAVY,  SIR   DAVID   BREWSTER, 

Page  IIS.  Page  46. 

SIR  RISDON  BENNETT, 

Page  JO. 

GEORGE  JOHN  ROMANES,       SIR  GEORGE  WILSON, 

Page  382.  PfJgesoy. 

SIR   JAMES   YOUNG   SIMPSON, 

Page  41J. 


A   CLOUD   OF  WITI^ESSES. 


215 


under  the  influence  of  the  Divine  Spirit.  The  Bible  as  a 
whole  is  a  unique  Divine  revelation,  God's  message  to  men 
respecting  His  nature  and  will,  and  the  relations  of  men  to 
Him.  In  Jesus  Christ  God  so  dwelt  that  He  is  a  perfect  rev- 
elation of  God.  Christ  is  God  manifest  in  human  nature, 
and  as  such  is  the  rightful  Ivord  and  only  Saviour  of  men. 


MARK  WALROD  HARRINGTON, 

President  of  the   University  of  Washington. 

DO  not  hesitate  to  express  my  extreme  admiration  foi 

the  character  of  Jesus  Christ — the  most  perfect  Man 

that  ever  lived,  the  only  Saviour  of  humanity — and  my 

entire   confidence  in  His  teachings,  as  given  in  the 

Mew  Testament. 


WILLIAM  HENRY  HARRISON,* 

Ninth  President  of  the  United  States.     (1773-1841.) 

DEEM  the  present  occasion  sufficiently  important  and 
solemn  to  justify  me  in  expressing  to  my  fellow  citi- 
zens a  profound  reverence  for  the  Christian  religion, 
and  a  thorough  conviction  that  sound  morals,  religious 
lioerty,  and  a  just  sense  of  religious  responsibility  are  essen- 
tially connected  with  all  true  and  lasting  happiness. — See  his 
Inaugural  Address  of  March  4,  1841. 

*  In  his  last,  and  as  now  we  may  almost  call  it,  his  dying  message,  from 
the  station  where  God  had  placed  him,  he  earnestly  commends  Chris- 
tianity— the  religion  of  the  cross — the  atoning  system  of  a  crucified  Re- 
dfcsmer. — Page  132  of  "^ Pulpit  and  Graved'  edited  by  E.J.  Wheeler. 


2l6 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 


BENJAMIN  HARRISON, 

Twenty-third  President  of  the  United  States. 


^^*^^^c^ 


N  answer  to  a 
letter  of  in- 
quiry whether 
he  was  the  au- 
thor of  the  following 

sentiment :      ''  That 

I  am  a  firm  believer 

in   the    religion    of 

Jesus  Christ  and  the 

Holy    Scriptures   as 

the  Word  of  God,  is 

not  a  virtue  of  mine. 

I   imbibed  it  at  my 

mother's  breast  and 

can    no  more  divest 

myself  of  it  than  I 

can   of  my  nature," 

he  writes :     "  The  statement  which  you  say  you  have  seen 

credited   to  me  (the  above),  and  which  you  copy,  is  not,  I 

think,  any  reproduction  of  anything  I  have  ever  said,  and 

yet   all  that  it  implies  as  to  religious  impressions    derived 

from  a  faithful  Christian  mother  is  true." 


''''i4^H^/^4ti'Prs^( 


DAVID  HARTLEY, 

Physician,  Philosopher,  and    Founder  of  the  English   Association  School 
of  Psychologists.     (1705-1757.) 

N  like  manner,  if  God  has  sent  His  beloved  Son,  Jesus 

Christ,  to  be  an  example  to  the  world,  to  die  for  it, 

and  to  govern  it,  it  can  not   be  an  indifferent  thing 

whether  we  attend  to  its  call  or  no.     The  neglect  of 

revealed  religion,  especially  in  persons  of  authority,  is  the 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  217 

same  thing  as  declaring  it  false ;  for  if  it  be  true,  the  neglect 
of  it  is  as  high  treason  against  the  majesty  of  heaven.  He 
that  honors  not  the  Son  can  not  honor  the  Father,  who  hath 
sent  Him  with  sufficient  credentials.  And,  accordingly,  if 
we  consider  the  second  Psalm  as  a  prophecy  relating  to 
Christ,  which  it  certainly  is,  those  kings  and  magistrates 
who  rise  up  against  God  and  His  Christ,  intending  to  shake 
off  the  restraints  of  natural  and  revealed  religion,  must  ex- 
pect to  be  broken  in  pieces  like  a  potter's  vessel. — Page  596, 
^^Observations  of  Man;  his  Frame ^  his  Duty^  and  his  Expecta- 
tio7is^^''  by  David  Hartley. 


THE  RIGHT  HONORABLE  THE  EARL  OF 
HARROWBY, 

English  Statesman;    Philanthropist,  and  Late  President  of  the  British  and 
Foreign  Bible  Society.     (1831-igoo.) 

AST   year   there   were   at   the    central   depot   Bibles 
printed  in  no  less  than  two  hundred  and  seventy-six 

t^o  different  languages  of  the  world — one  of  the  most 
marvelous  feats  of  enterprise  and  literary  power  ever 
seen. — From  an  address  at  Hanley^  Staffordshire^  February 
28,  1889. 

It  is  just  one  of  those  moments  in  the  world's  history  , 
when  we.  must  push  on  and  seize  the  new  languages,  and 
enlist  them  in  the  service  of  our  Lord  and  Saviour,  Jesus 
Christ. — Declared  at  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the  British  and 
Foreign  Bible  Society^  May^  1892. 

I  feel  as  keenly  as  ever  that  England's  greatness  and  the 
magnitude  of  her  empire  were  owing  very  largely  to  devo- 
tion to  that  Book  which  has  formed  the  characteristics  of 
her  people,  and  fitted  them  to  be  the  pioneers  not  only  of 
Christianity  but  of  civilization  all  over  the  world. — A  sentence 
of  an  Address  before  the  British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society^ 
May,  1893. 

My  faith  in  the  Bible  gets  stronger  and  stronger  as  time 
goes  on.     We  know  what  attacks  are  made  on  it,  but  there 


2l8  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

is  in  our  minds  an  answer  to  those  attacks.  The  evidence 
which,  in  middle  life,  is  most  touching  and  convincing  is  that 
supplied  by  the  death-beds  of  beloved  relatives  and  friends ; 
by  the  valued  head  of  the  family ;  by  a  beloved  sister  or 
brother,  and  others,  who  have  been  cheered  and  enlightened, 
made  triumphant  in  the  prospect  of  death,  by  that  wonderful 
Book,  the  Bible.  To  me  that  is  sufficient  proof  of  its  Divine 
authority. — From  a  Speech  at  the  Eighty-second  Anniversary 
of  the  British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society^  May^  1886. 


HENRY  HARTSHORNE, 

Physician  and  Surgeon. 

AVING  nearly  finished  the  proverbial  span  of  man's 
years,  after  varied  experiences  at  home,  and  glimpses 
of  many  of  the  wonders  of  the  world  abroad.;  having 
read  much  in  literature,  science,  and  philosophy,  in- 
cluding most  of  the  worst  attacks  against  the  Christian  re- 
ligion by  its  enemies,  my  judgment  is,  that  the  only  thing 
that  can  make  life  worth  living  is  the  present  peace  and 
eternal  hope  which  are  in  Christ  Jesus,  whose  coming,  fore- 
told in  the  Old  Testament  and  set  forth  in  the  New  Testa- 
ment, brought  life  and  immortality  to  light  in  the  world. 


THOMAS  HASTINGS, 

Musician,  and  Writer  of  Hymns.     (1784-1872.) 


THE  SEPULCHRE  ON  SABBATH  MORNING. 

'OW  calm  and  beautiful  the  morn 
That  gilds  the  sacred  tomb, 
Where  Christ  the  crucified  was  borne, 

And  veiled  in  midnight  gloom  ! 
Oh,  weep  no  more  the  Saviour  slain. 
The  Lord  is  risen.  He  lives  again  ! 


A  CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


219 


SIR  HENRY  HAVELOCK, 


British    Major-General.     (1795-1857.) 


^HINGS  are  in 
a  most  peril- 
ous state.     If 
we  succeed  in 
restoring  anything,  it 
will  be  God's  special 
mercy.      ...      I 
must   now    write    as 
one  whom  you    may 
see   no  more,  for  the 
chances    of  war    are 
heavy  at    this   crisis. 
Thank    God    for   my 
hope  in  the  Saviour. 
We     shall     meet    in 
heaven. —  To  his  wife^ 
page     284,   ^''Life    of 
General  Havelock^''  by  J.   T.  Headley. 

Flee  in  your  troubles  to  Jesus  Christ.  The  experience  of 
thirty  years  enables  me  to  say:  No  man  had  so  kind  a 
Friend  as  He,  or  so  good  a  Master.  View  him  not  at  a  dis- 
tance, but  as  a  prop  and  a  comforter  ever  at  hand,  and  He 
will  requite  your  confidence  by  blessings  illimitable. — ^''Life 
of  Sir  Henry  Havelockf  by  fames  Macaulay^  Volume  VI ^  of 
''^ Short  Biographies  for  the  People.'''' 


*A  staflFofl&cer  once  remarked  to  Lord  Hardinge,  after  a  certain  victory, 
*'  tiavelock,  my  lord,  is  every  inch  a  soldier."  "  Every  inch  a  soldier," 
came  the  quick  response.  "  Yes,  Havelock  is  every  inch  a  soldier ;  but  he 
is  more,  and  he  is  better :  he  is  every  inch  a  Christian. "^—Pa^^?  437,  '''Life 
and  Labor,'^  by  Samuel  Smiles. 


220  A   CIvOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

SIR  CHRISTOPHER  HATTON, 

Lord  High  Chancellor  of  England.     (1540-1591.) 

^T  is  justly  accounted  a  piece  of  excellent  knowledge  to 
understand  the  law  of  the  land,  and  the  customs  of  our 
country ;  but  how  much  more  excellent  it  is  to  know 
the  statutes  of  heaven  and  the  laws  of  eternity;  the 
immutable  and  perpetual  laws  of  justice  and  righteousness ; 
to  know  the  will  and  pleasure  of  the  great  Monarch  and 
universal  King  of  the  world!  ''I  have  seen  an  end  of  all 
perfection ;  but  thy  commandments,  O  God,  are  exceedingly 
broad." — Page  103,  ''^The  Power  of  Religion^^^  by  Lindley 
Murray. 

FRANZ  JOSEPH  HAYDN, 

German  Musical  Composer.     (1732-1809.) 

E  was  a  cheerful  Christian.  Wlien  an  ©Id  man,  he  said 
with  emphasis  :  "  When  I  think  of  my  God,  my  heart 
dances  within  me  for  joy,  and  then  my  music  has  to 
dance,  too," 

Emperor  Franz  once  asked  him  which  of  his  tvvo  oratorios 
he  preferred: 

"The  Creation'!" 

''Why?" 

"  Because  in  'The  Creation  *  angels  speak,  and  their  talk  is 
of  God." 

In  composing,  when  he  felt  the  ardor  of  his  imagination 
decline,  he  rose  from  his  work  and  resorted  to  prayer — an 
expedient  which,  he  was  wont  to  say,  never  failed  to  revive 
him.  All  his  scores  were  inscribed  with  the  words:  "/« 
nomine  Domini^^  or  ''^Soli  Deo  Gloria^''  while  at  the  conclu- 
sion is  written  his  ^^Laus  Deo^''\  but  "  I  was,"  he  declares, 
"  never  so  pious  {fromm)  as  during  the  time  that  I  worked 
on  '  The  Creation.'  Daily  I  fell  on  my  knees,  and  begged 
God  to  vouchsafe  to  me  strength  for  the  fortunate  outcome 
of  the  work." 

When  the  Society  of  Amateurs,  in  Vienna,  gave  '  The  Crea- 
tion," Haydn  for  the  first  in  some  years,  and  for  the  last 
time,  appeared  in  public  March  27th,  1808.  "  Surrounded  by 


B  R  A  A^ 

or  THE 

UNIVERSITY 

OF 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


221 


the  great  and  by  his  friends,  by  poets  and  the  fair  sex,  hear- 
ing the  praises  of  God  imagined  by  himself,  and  his  own 
praises  mingled  with  those  of  the  Divinity,  the  good  old  man 
must  have  believed  himself  in  Heaven."  Salieri  conducted. 
At  the  sound  of  the  introduction  to  the  words  ''And  there 
was  light,"  the  audience  burst  into  loud  applause.  Haydn 
pointed  up,  exclaiming :  "  It  came  from  above."— ''^  Score 
of  Famous  Composers ^^^  by  Nathan  Haskell  Dole, 


NATHANIEL  HAWTHORNE, 

Author  and  Poet.     (1804-1864.) 


THE  STAR  OF  CAIvVARY. 

^T  is  the  same  infrequent  star, 
The  all  mysterious  light, 

That,  like  a  watcher  gazing  on 
The  changes  of  the  night, 

Toward  the  hill  of  Bethlehem,  took 
Its  solitary  flight. 

It  is  the  same  infrequent  star; 

Its  sameness  startleth  me ; 
Although  the  disk  is  red  a-blood 

And  downward  silently 
It  looketh  on  another  hill, 

The  hill  of  Calvary. 


2,22,  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

Behold,  O  Israel !  behold ! 

It  is  no  human  One 
That  ye  have  dared  to  crucify. 

What  evil  hath  he  done  ? 
It  is  your  King,  O  Israel, 

The  God-begotten  Son ! 


JULIAN  HAWTHORNE. 

Author. 

HEN  the  missionary  knelt  down  and  asked  God  to 
bless  the  poor  heathen,  I  silently  joined  in  the 
prayer  .  ^  .  Visiting  India  makes  one  value  Chris- 
tianity .  .  .  Inspire  India  with  a  veritable  Chris- 
tian faith,  and  nine  tenths  of  the  present  difficulties  will 
spontaneously  cease  .  .  .  The  salvation  of  India  is  its  Chris- 
tianization  .  .  .  The  only  thing  that  will  eradicate  caste  is 
the  acceptance  of  Jesus  Christ.  —  The  CosmopoliUin  of  Au- 
gust, September  and  October^  1897. 

Between  the  Bible  and  any  or  all  literatures  no  just  paral- 
lel can  be  drawn.  It  purports  to  be  the  Word  of  God,  and  in 
spite  of  the  "Higher  Criticism"  and  all  other  criticism  it 
vindicates  its  claim.  Books  conceived  and  written  by  men 
are  soon  fathomed,  their  end  and  quality  determined;  but  no 
one  has  sounded  the  depths  of  the  sacred  Scriptures.  —  Volimie 
/,  Page  114,  ""The  Literature  of  All  Nations,'^  by  Julian 
Hawthorne. 


WILLIAM  HAZLITT, 

English  Author.     (1778-1830.) 


>HE  whole  life  of  Christ  was  imbued,  steeped  in  the 
one  word — charity;  but  it  was  the  spring,  the  well- 
head from  which  every  thought  and  feeling  gushed 
into  act ;  this  breathed  a  mild  glory  from  His  face  in 
that  last  agony  on  the  Cross,  when  this  meek  Saviour  bowed 
His  head  and  died,  praying  for  His  enemies.  He  was  the 
first  and  true  Teacher  of  humanity,  for  He  alone  conceived 
the  idea  of  a  pure  humanity.  He  redeemed  man  from  the 
worship  of  that  idol — self — and  instructed  him  by  precept 
and  example  to  love  his  neighbor  as  himself. — ''Literature 
of  the  Age  of  Elizabeth.^  ^ 


mg 


A   CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  223 

RUTHERFORD  BIRCHARD  HAYES, 

Nineteenth  President  of  the  United  States ;  Major-General  in  Civil  War. 

(1822-1893  ) 

AM  a  firm  believer 
in    the    Divine 
teachings,   perfect 
example,  and  aton- 
sacrifice     of    Jesus 
Christ. 

I  believe  also  in  the 
Holy  Scriptures  as  the  re- 
vealed Word  of  God  to 
the  world  for  its  enlight- 
enment and  salvation. 

I  will  make  it  a  point 
never  to  do  anything  in- 
consistent with  the  char- 
acter of  a  friend  and  true 
patriot.  To  be  such  a 
person  it  will  be  necessary 
to  act  in  accordance  with 
the  precepts  of  the  Bible,  in  which  I  firmly  believe. 


cc  vs.  /^y^ 


*A  vow  which  he  made  in  his  youth,  and  adhered  to  through  his  civil 
and  military  career. 

ISAAC  ISRAEL  HAYES, 

Arctic  Explorer,  Surgeon,  and  Naturalist.  (1832-1881.) 

HEREVER  men  have  sought  to  plant,  among  bar- 
barous peoples,  the  emblem  of  the  only  true  reli- 
gion, there  has  she  gone  before — opening  the  gates 
and  smoothing  the  pathway.  She  has  lifted  the 
curtain  of  ignorance  from  the  human  mind,  and  Christianity, 
following  her  advancing  footsteps,  has  banished  from  the 
West  the  ancient  superstitions,  and  the  dark  Pantheism  pf 
the  East,  and  the  Fetich  worship  of  the  savage  tribes  are 
passing  away.     The  light  of  science  and  the  Gospel  of  our 


224  A   CIvOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

Christian  faith  have  moved  hand  in  hand  together  through 
the  world,  and,  overriding  the  barriers  of  custom,  have,  with 
unselfish  zeal,  steadily  unfolded  to  the  human  understanding 
the  material  interests  which  concern  this  life,  and  to  the  hu- 
man soul  the  sacred  truths  of  Revelation  which  concerns  the 
life  to  come. — Last  page  of''''  The  Open  Polar  Sea;  a  Narrative 
of  a  Voyage  of  Discovery  towards  the  North  Pole^^^  by  Isaac 
Israel  Hayes.  

PAUL  HAMILTON  HAYNE, 

Poet.     (1830-1886.) 


A  SUNDAY  CHRISTMAS. 

YSTBRY  of  mysteries !  On  this  holy  morn 
jYl.      The  Prince  of  an  eternal  realm  of  love, 
5  <f^  The  Godhead  veiled  in  lowliest  guise  was  born, 
While  the  far  heavenly  music  pealed  above. 

Triumph  of  triumphs  !  this  auspicious  day 
The  stern  earth-agony  subdued  and  fled. 

Behold  the  dawn  of  His  immortal  sway, 
The  glorious  resurrection  from  the  dead. 

That  birth  was  marvelous  !  but  strange  and  grand, 

More  strange  and  grand,  was  the  Great  Conqueror's  rise 

From  the  dim  confines  of  the  shadowy  land, 
Whose  gloom  had  palsied  faith,  and  dimmed  the  skies. 


WILLIAM  STEELE  HOLMAN, 

Thirty  Years  in  Congress  ;  "The  Great  Objector."     (1822-1897.) 

AM  often  overwhelmed  with  a  sense  of  my  shortcom- 
ings, and  no  man  ever  prayed  more  fervently  and  ear- 
nestly for  Divine  help  that  I  may  overcome,  and  yet 
at  times  I  go  down  before  the  adversary.  Certainly  I 
have  no  claim  on  the  forbearance  of  the  Church ;  yet  I  sin- 
cerely love  my  Saviour  and  my  Bible. — In  Conversation  with 
E.  H.  Davis^  Aurora^  Ind. 


AMERICAN  FAVORITES. 


John  Lathrop  Motley,                      William  Hickling  Prescott, 

Page  330. 

Page  ^67. 

Charles  Sumner, 

Page  436. 

Thomas  Bailey  Aldrich, 

Lew  Wallace, 

Page  480. 

Page  10. 

Jean  Louis  R.  Agassiz, 

Page^. 

A  CLOUD  OF  WITNESSES.  225 

H.  HEGARD, 

Professor  of  Philosophy,  University  of  Copenhagen. 

^N  the  second  edition  of  his  works,  recently  published, 
maybe  found  this  Introduction:  ''The  experience  of 
life,  its  sufferings  and  griefs,  have  shaken  my  soul,  and 
have  broken  the  foundation  upon  which  I  formerly 
thought  I  could  build.  Full  of  faith  in  the  sufficiency  of 
science,  I  thought  to  have  found  in  it  a  sure  refuge  from  all 
contingencies  of  life.  The  illusion  vanished ;  when  the  tem- 
pest came  which  plunged  me  into  sorrow,  the  moorings,  the 
cable  of  science,  broke  like  a  thread.  Then  I  seized  upon 
that  Divine  help  which  many  before  me  have  laid  hold  of.  I 
sought  and  found  peace  in  Christ.  Since  then  I  have  cer- 
tainly not  abandoned  science,  but  I  have  assigned  to  it  an- 
other place  in  my  life." 


HEINRICH  HEINE, 

German  Poet.     (1799-1856.) 


HEN  I  was  a  little  boy,  while  I  sat  on  my  mother's 
knee,  I  believed  in  God  the  Father,  who  rules  up 
there  in  heaven,  good  and  great,  who  created  this 
beautiful  earth,  and  the  lovely  men  and  women 
there ;  who  ordained  for  sun,  moon,  and  stars  their  courses. 
When  I  got  bigger,  I  comprehended  a  great  deal  more  than 
this,  and  grew  intelligent — a  believer  on  the  beloved  Son, 
who  loved  us,  and  revealed  His  love  to  us  ;  and  for  His  re- 
ward was  crucified  by  the  people. — ^'•Essays  and  Criticisjn  of 
Heine ^^^  by  Matthew  Arnold. 

I  attributed  my  illumination  entirely  and  simply  to  the 
reading  of  a  Book  ;  yes,  and  it  is  a  plain  old  Book,  modest  as 
Nature  itself,  and  also  as  natural ;  a  Book  of  an  unassuming 
work-a-day  appearance,  like  the  sun  which  warms  us,  like 
the  bread  which  nourishes  us — a  Book  that  looks  on  us  trust- 
fully and  benignantly  as  an  old  grandmother  who  daily  reads 


226  A   CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

it  with  her  dear,  trembling  lips,  and  with  her  spectacles  on 
her  nose  ;  and  this  Book  is  called  briefly  the  Book — the  Bible. 
Justly  is  it  named  the  Holy  Writ.  He  who  has  lost  his  God 
can  find  Him  again  in  this  Book,  and  he  who  has  never 
known  Him,  is  here  struck  by  the  breath  of  the  Divine  Word. 
— See  Preface  to  his  Work  on  ^''German  Philosophy.'''' 


SIR  ARTHUR  HELPS, 

English  Historian  and  Essayist.     (1817-1875.) 

OMPETITION  will  not  cease  to  be  urgently  em- 
ployed as  a  motive — indeed  as  a  first  motive — until 
the  mass  of  mankind  become  real  Christians. 

It  may  seem  a  somewhat  abrupt  transition  to  re- 
vert to  religious  considerations,  but  I  can  not  conclude  with- 
out remarking  that  competition  is  not  a  thing  much  encour- 
aged in  the  Best  of  Books,  and  by  the  Divinest  of  Teachers. 
There  is  a  command — the  great  command — about  loving  one 
another. — From  his  Essay  on  ^^  Competition.^'' 


JOSEPH  HENRY, 

Physicist,  and  Late  Secretary  of  the  Smithsonian  Institute. 
(1797-1878.) 

HAVE  not  given  much  attention  to  the  mmutiae  of 
theology ;  possibly  not  as  much  as  I  ought ;  but  as  to 
the  Christian  scheme  in  the  main  outlines — that  there 
is  a  God,  an  infinite  Spirit;  that  man  is  made  up  of 
body  and  soul;  that  there  is  an  immortal  life  for  man  reach- 
ing beyond  the  present  world ;  that  the  power  and  love  of 
God  are  brought  into  relation  with  the  weakness  and  sinful- 
ness of  man  in  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ — of  these  great  truths  I 
have  no  doubt.  I  regard  the  system  which  teaches  them  as 
rational  beyond  any  of  the  opposing  theories  which  have 
come  under  my  view.  Upon  Jesus  Christ — the  One  who 
affiliates  Himself  with  man— upon  Him  I  rest  my  faith  and 
hope. — Page  19,  ^''Memorial  of  Joseph  Henry.'''' 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


227 


PATRICK  HENRY, 

Statesman  and  Orator.     (  1 736-1799. 
OCTOR,    I 

wish  you  to 
observe  how 
real  and  ben- 
eficial the  religion  of 
Christ  is  to  a  man 
about  to  die. 

This  is  all  the  in- 
heritance I  can  give 
to  my  dear  family. 
The  religion  of 
Christ  can  give  them 
one  which  can  make 
them  rich  indeed. 

Here    is   a    Book 
worth  more  than  all 
others  ever  printed; 
yet  it  is  my  misfortune  never  to  have  read  it  with  proper 
attention  and  feeling  till  lately. 

I  am,  however,  much  consoled  by  reflecting  that  the  re- 
ligion of  Christ  has,  from  its  first  appearance  in  the  world, 
been  attacked  in  vain  by  all  the  wits,  philosophers,  and  wise 
ones,  aided  by  every  power  of  man,  and  its  triumphs  have 
been  complete. — From  his  latest  Biographer^  Prof.  Tyler. 


SIR  JOHN  FREDERICK  WllLLAM 
HERSCHEL, 

English  Astronomer  and  Philosopher.     (1792-1871.) 

LIv  human  discoveries  seem  to  be  made  only  for  the 
purpose  of  confirming  more  strongly  the  truths 
which  come  from  on  high,  and  contained  in  the 
sacred  Scriptures. — Page  72,  ^''Allibone^s  Prose  Quo- 


tations.^'' 


228  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

There  can  not  be  two  truths  in  contradiction  to  one 
another,  and  a  man  must  have  a  mind  fitted  neither  for 
scientific  nor  for  religious  truth  whose  religion  can  be  dis- 
turbed by  geology,  or  whose  geology  can  be  distorted  from 
the  character  of  an  inductive  science  by  a  determination  to 
accommodate  its  results  to  preconceived  interpretations  of 
the  -Mosaic  cosmogony. — From  his  ''^Discourse  on  Natural 
Philosophy^ 

ABRAM  STEVENS  HEWITT, 

Statesman,  and  Ex-Mayor  of  New  York. 

V  Christianity  is  to  do  its  work,  and  the  Word  of  God 
its  Divine  mission,  it  must  be  accomplished  by  inspir- 
ing each  individual  with  the  deep  conviction  of  their 
truth,  and  I  should  have  no  faith  in  the  religious  spirit 
of  any  man  who  adopted  the  Christian  religion  and  its  Book 
because  he  found  other  people  doing  so.  If  all  professing 
Christians  will  lead  consistent  lives,  and  walk  in  the  pre- 
cepts of  the  Holy  Scriptures,  and  all  clergymen  will  preach 
the  plain  Gospel  of  Christ  as  it  was  once  delivered  to  the 
saints,  who  can  tell  the  great  results,  or  measure  the  world- 
wide influence  upon  the  hearts  and  lives  of  the  great  mass 
of  humanity  who  are  now  without  hope  and  without  God  in 

BENJAMIN  HARVEY  HILL, 

United  States  Senator.     (1823-1882.) 

NOW  give  and  bequeath  to  my  wife  and  children  that 
w^hich  some  of  them  now  possess,  and  which,  I  assure 
them,  in  full  vie'w  of  death,  is  far  richer  than  gold, 
and  more  to  be  desired  than  all  human  honors.    God  is 
a  living  God,  and  Christ  came  into  the  world  to  save  sinners. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  229 

I  beg  them  to  have  faith  in  Jesus,  for  by  this  faith  alone  can 
they  be  saved. — Item  in  his  will.  From  correspondence  with 
Benjamin  H.  Hill^  Jr.^  of  Atlanta^  Georgia. — 6'.  A,  N. 


DAVID  JAYNE  HILL, 

Late  President  of  Rochester  University. 

O  philosophy  can  be  permanently  satisfactory  to  man 
which  does  not  include  among  its  data  his  deepest 
spiritual  experience  as  recorded  in  the  Hebrew  and 
Christian  Scriptures,  and  the  realization  of  his  ideals 
as  embodied  in  the  person  of  Jesus  Christ.  I  bow  with  rever- 
ence before  the  Written  and  Living  Word. 


JOSEPH  ROSWELL  HAWLEY, 

Q.  Federal  Major-General ;  United  States  Senator  since  1881. 

t  ^PESSIMISTIC  views  very  largely  prevail  in  this  coun- 
^ '  ^  try.  It  seems  to  me,  however,  that  no  believer  in 
Christianity  has  a  right  to  be  a  pessimist.  I  was  not 
so  taught  to  interpret  my  Bible.  I  was  taught  to 
believe  in  the  future  glory  and  absolute,  final,  magnificent 
triumph  of  our .  institutions.  It  is  a  safe  prophecy  that, ' 
given  a  new,  unoccupied  continent,  with  a  free  school,  a  free 
press,  a  free  religion,  and  a  free  ballot,  in  the  end  the  truth, 
justice  and  wisdom  of  the  Gospel  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ 
will  win  the  fight. 


(1820-1891.)  General  Sherman  and  myself  are,  by  in- 
heritance, education,  and  connection.  Christian.  This  has 
been  avowed  on  all  proper  occasions  by  the  General. — Page 
1102^  Vol,  11^^^ John  Sherman'' s  Recollections  of  Forty  Years 
in  the  House.  Senate ^  and  Cabinet, ' ' 


230  A  CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

HENRY  WASHINGTON  HILLARD, 


1 

9 


G^9  Lawyer,  Congressman,  and  Diplomat. 

^TVv^BOVE  all,  my  prayer  is,  that  as  long  as  our  poster- 
^^fc)V  ity  shall  continue  to  inhabit  these  mountains  and 
plains,  and  hills  and  valleys,  they  may  be  found 
living  under  the  sacred  institutions  of  Christianity. 
.  .  .  Then  it  will  be  ours  to  give  the  priceless  benefits 
of  our  free  institutions  and  the  pure,  healthful  light  of  the 
Gospel  back  to  the  dark  family  which  has  so  long  lost  both 
truth  and  freedom ;  then  may  Christianity  plant  herself 
there,  and  while  with  one  hand  she  points  out  to  the  Poly- 
nesian isles,  rejoicing  in  the  late  recovered  treasure  of  re- 
vealed truth,  with  the  other  present  the  Bible  to  the  Chi- 
nese. Let  us  not,  like  some  of  the  British  missionaries,  give 
them  the  Bible  in  one  hand  and  opium  with  the  other,  but 
bless  them  only  with  the  pure  Word  of  Truth. — From  a 
speech  in  the  Twenty-ninth  Congress.  See  page  61^^  '''' The 
American  Review^''  Volume  IV — New  Series, 


JAMES  HINTON, 

English  Aural  Surgeon  and  Author.     (1822-1875.) 

FIND  the  Bible  the  secret  of  all  truth ;  all  I  truly 
know  I  derive  from  it ;  and  yet  I  would  say  to  every 
man :  Do  not  believe  the  Bible  if  you  can  not  see 
clearly  that  it  is  true.  Deal  freely,  boldly  by  it.  Do 
not  be  afraid  !  It  is  a  friend,  not  an  enemy.  If  you  do  not 
treat  it  straightforwardly,  it  can  not  do  its  service  for  you. 
— From,  page  214  of  his  Life. 


WILLIAM  HARVEY, 

British  Physician ;  discoverer  of  the  Circulation  of  the  Blood. 
(1578-1657.) 

DO  most  humbly  render  my  soul  to  Him  that  gave  it, 
and  to  my  blessed  Lord  and  Saviour  Christ  Jesus. — 
Page  177,  "  William  Harvey ^^^  by  D^Arcy  Power. 


A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES.  23 1 

EBENEZER  ROCKWOOD  HOAR, 

Lawyer  and  Statesman. 

DO  not  think  anything  new  can  be  said  in  response  to 
your  question,  "What  has  Jesus  Christ  done  for  hu- 
manity?" Certainly  it  can  not  by  me.  But,  that 
your  courteous  note  may  not  be  wholly  unanswered,  I 
will  adopt  the  language  of  an  early  disciple,  which  I  could 
not  undertake  to  improve,  to  mention  one  crowning  bless- 
ing: "For  I  am  persuaded  that  neither  death,  nor  life,  nor 
angels,  nor  principalities,  nor  powers,  nor  things  present,  nor 
things  to  come,  nor  height,  nor  depth,  nor  any  other  creature, 
shall  be  able  to  separate  us  from  the  love  of  God,  which  is 
in  Christ  Jesus  our  Lord." — Christian  Register^  Boston^  De- 
cember 22,  1887. 


m. 


GEORGE  FRISBIE  HOAR, 

United  States  Senator. 


^  S-"^^OU  ask  me  to  answer  in  a  few  words  the  one  great 
XA  question  of  all  history  and  of  all  destiny:  What 
1^  has  been  the  influence  upon  humanity  of  a  perfect 
example  of  duty,  love,  and  love  commended  to  man- 
kind as  such  by  the  Creator  of  the  universe,  and  of  a  perfect 
statement,  sufficient  for  all  human  occasions,  reduced  to  rule 
and  illustrated  by  parable  within  the  comprehension  of  all 
sane  understandings  of  the  moral  law  and  of  human  duty, 
accompanied  by  the  promise  of  immortality  in  which  com- 
pliance with  that  law  shall  bear  fruit  in  the  loftiest  happiness 
of  which  human  nature  is  capable  ?  This  I  understand  to  be 
the  character,  teaching,  and  promise  of  the  Jesus  Christ  of  the 
four  Gospels,  as  distinguished  from  Jesus  Christ  of  theology. 
— Christian  Register^  Boston^  December  22,  1887. 


Frederick  Chopin,  Polish  Musician  (1810-1849) :  I 
believe,  and  as  my  mother  taught  me,  in  a  crucified 
Saviour. — Among  his  dying  words. 


232  A   CI.OUD  OF  WITNESSES. 

SAMUEL  HOARE, 

Member  of  Parliament. 

O  one  wlio  makes  inquiry  in  India  can  fail  to  be  sat- 
isfied that  a  vast  work  is  going  on — yes,  a  vast  work 
in  the  progress  of  Christianity,  and  a  vast  work  in 
the  unsettlement  of  the  Mohammedans  and  Hindus. 
.  .  .  I  am  sure  you  will  all  feel  that  there  is  only  one 
religion  to  put  in  its  place,  and  that  is  the  religion  of  Christ. 
.  You  hear  of  the  leading  Hindus  coming  to  our 
old,  tried  missionary  there  and  stating,  "Our  religion  is 
doomed.  Your  religion  is  certain  to  be  victorious."  You 
find  the  Bible  read  over  in  India,  not  only  by  Christians  but 
by  Hindus.  I  was  told  of  a  clerk  asking  a  missionary  for  a 
Bible.  The  missionary  said,  ''But  you  are  a  Hindu;  why 
do  you  want  a  Bible?"  "Because,"  said  he,  "when  I  was 
at  the  University  I  was  in  great  distress,  so  great  that  I  felt 
as  if  I  could  destroy  my  life.  I  consulted  one  of  my  teachers, 
who  was  a  Hindu,  and  he  said,  '  There  is  only  thing  for  you 
to  do  to  set  your  mind  at  rest,  and  that  is  to  secure  a  Bible  and 
read  it.'  "  This  man  had,  with  five  others,  all  Hindus,  week 
after  week,  carried  on  a  Bible-reading  by  themselves.  .  . 
.  The  one  great  lesson  I  learnt  in  India  respecting  the 
mission  work  there  is  this :  we  must  have  patience.  If  you 
all  present  have  faith  in  the  power  of  the  Gospel,  I  ask  you 
all  to  be  patient ;  and  then  with  the  utmost  confidence,  you 
may  look  forward  with  more  blessed  results. — Church  Mis- 
sio7tary  Intelligencer^  June ^  1892. 


JOSIAH  GILBERT  HOLLAND, 

Author  and  Poet.     (1819-1881.) 

^HE  current  popular  theology  can  not  possibly  be 
saved  without  saving  the  current  and  popular  view 
of  the  Bible. 

The  old-fashioned,  highly  intellectual  and  largely 
theological  sermon  will  go  out,  and  the  simple  preaching  of 


A  CLOUD  OF  WITNESSES.  233 

Jesus  Christ,  as  the  Saviour  of  the  worid,  and  the  hortatory 
appeal,  will  come  in. 

The  cure  for  the  moral  evils  of  the  world  is  just  as  demon- 
strably in  the  Christian  religion  as  the  elements  of  vegetable 
life  are  in  the  soil.  Penitence,  forgiveness,  reformation,  the 
substitution  of  love  for  selfishness  as  the  governing  principle 
of  life,  piety  towards  God,  and  good-will  to  men — in  short, 
the  adoption  of  Christ  as  Saviour,  King,  exemplar,  teacher — 
this  is  Christianity — the  whole  of  it. — Extracts  from  ^^Every- 
Day  Topics ^^  by  J,  G.  Holland. 

The  first  Book  upon  which  I  lay  my  hand  is  the  Bible. 
In  this  Book  God  condescends  to  speak  to  man  in  words. 
.  .  .  Out  of  this  exhaustless  magazine  of  all  that  is  Divine  in 
human  life  do  the  nations  of  Christendom  draw  their  food. 
Forth  from  this  sprang  our  civilization.  Out  of  this  germinal 
mass  has  grown  all  good  institutions,  and  by  it  is  human 
life  to  be  wholly  regenerated.  As  in  nature,  so  in  Revelation, 
there  is  no  such  thing  as  beauty  for  beauty's  sake ;  all  beauty 
is  for  man's  sake. — From  chapter  on  ^'^ Fashion^  Art^  and 
Life^^  in  ^^ Plain   Talks ^''^  by  J.  G.  Holland. 


HOLY  ALLIANCE. 

ALEXANDER  I.,  EMPEROR  OF  RUSSIA  (1777-1825) ;  FRAN- 
CIS I.,  EMPEROR  OF  AUSTRIA  (1768-1835)  ;  AND 
FREDERICK  WILLIAM  IIL,  KING  OF 
PRUSSIA  (1770-1840.) 

.HE  following  is  the  text  of  the  Holy  Alliance  (1815) 
of  Russia,  Austria,  and  Prussia,  for  the  maintenance 
of  peace,  and  the  establishment  of  the  existing  dy- 
nasties : 

In  the  name  of  the  Most  Holy  and  Indivisible  Trinity : 

Their  Majesties,  the    Emperor  of  Austria,  the    King   of 

Prussia,  and  the  Emperor  of  Russia,  having,  in  consequence 

of  the  great  events  which  have  marked  the  course  of  the 

three  last  years  in  Europe,  and  especially  of  the  blessings 


234  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSKS. 

which  it  has  pleased  Divine  Providence  to  shower  down  upon 
these  States  which  place  their  confidence  and  hope  upon  the 
sublime  truths  which  the  Holy  Religion  of  our  Saviour 
teaches  .  .  .  ;  thus  confessing  that  the  Christian  world 
has,  in  reality,  no  other  Sovereign  than  Him  to  whom  alone 
power  really  belongs,  because  in  Him  alone  are  found  all  the 
treasures  of  love,  science  and  infinite  wisdom,  that  is  to  say, 
God,   our  Divine   Saviour,    the    Word    of   Life.     .     . 

Done  in  triplicate,  and  signed  at  Paris,  the  year  of  grace, 
1815,  26th  September. 

(L.  S.)  Francis, 
(L.  S. )  Frederick  William, 
(L.  S.)  Alexander. 
— From  the  Annual  Register^   Volume  ^?>^  {London^  1816). 


RICHARD  HOLT  HUTTON, 

Journalist;  \9itt  "Editor  oi  The  Spectator ;  Critic.     (1C27-1897.) 

BELIEVE  in  the  divinity  of  Christ  and  the  inspi- 
ration of  the  Scriptures.  Belief  in  the  divinity  of 
our  Saviour  is  absolutely  inconceivable  without  belief 
in  Revelation.  No  purely  human  mind  could  have 
delivered  the  Sermon  on  the  Mount.  Christ  revealed  God 
and  was  personally  the  Divine  Son  of  God.  The  doctrine  of 
the  Incarnation  is  to  me  the  real  Word  of  God. 


HENRY  HOME, 

(LORD  KAMES.) 

Scottish  Philosopher  and  Jurist.     (1696-1782.) 

lUT  why  worship  the  Cross,  which  is  supposed  to  be 
that  upon  which  our  Saviour  suffered?  That  cross 
ought  to  be  an  object  of  hatred,  not  of  veneration. 
If  it  be  urged  that  as  an  instrument  of  Christ's 
sufferings  it  was  salutary  to  mankind,  I  answer,  why  was  not 
aho  Pontius  Pilate  reverenced,  Caiphas,  the  high  priest,  and 
Judas  Iscariot? — Footnote^  page  42,  ^^ Elements  of  Criticism^'''' 
by  Henry  Home  {Lord  Kames). 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES  235 

JOHN  MARSHALL  HARLAN. 

/;^/p     Associate  Justice,  United  States  Supreme  Court,  since  1877. 

OD  is  not  willing  that  any  man  should  perish,  nor  is 

it  His  decree,  but  the  wickedness  of  their  own  hearts, 

^=^  which  shuts  some  men  out  from  the  salvation  freely 

and  lovingly  offered  in  Jesus  Christ  to  all  sinners. — 

From  ''The  Revised  Creed  ^'^  of  the  Presbyterian  Assembly^ 

1 90 1,  Justice  Harlan^  a  member  of  that  Committee. 


JAMES  HARLAN, 

United  States  Senator,  1855-1865 ;   resigned  to  become  Secretary  of  State 

under  President  Lincoln;  United  States  Senator,  1866-1873. 

(1820-1899.) 

HILE  listening  to  a  sermon  on  the  fullness  of  the 

ransom  offered  for  sinners  in  the  Person  of  Jesus 

of  Nazareth,   I  found  *'the  pearl  of  great  price,'' 

not  to  be  compared  with  earthly  jewels.— Z^^^'^^' 

Repository^  i860. 


HENRY  RIDER  HAGGARD, 

British  Novelist. 

S  a  lad  perhaps  our  Saviour  herded  sheep  and  goats 
foY;  among  the  starling  rocks.  As  a  man  He  may  have 
^  (v  'wo^^^^  those  ancient  ploughshares.  In  short,  within 
this  circle  that  the  sight  commands  for  thirty  years 
or  more  the  Almighty  dwelt  on  earth,  acquiring  in  a  humble 
incarnation  one  side  of  that  wisdom  which  has  changed  the 
world. — Page  208,  ^^A  Winter'' s  Pilgrimage  in  Palestine^ 
Italy  and  Cyprus^ "  by  H,  Rider  Haggard. 


ARTHUR  TWINING  HADLEY, 

President  of  Yale  College. 

AiTV^NYTHING  I  might  affirm  of  my  belief  in  the  divin- 
^Ji^^  ity  of  the  Holy  Scriptures  and  of  Jesus  Christ  seems 
*^  fc)^  unworthy  of  the  subject.     The  fruits  of  their  teach- 
ings confirm  it.     I  know  the  Bible  well,  and  make 
a  great  use  of  it  in  my  daily  and  professional  life. 


^J^HyiLxy^^  y,  A^htOc^^Ly- 


236  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

THOMAS  HOOD, 

English  Poet,  Wit,  and  Miscellaneous  Writer.     (1798-1845.) 

'F  further  evidence  is  necessary  to  refute  some  unrea- 
sonable and  groundless  doubts  that  have  rested  on  his 
memory,  I  would  add  one  more  proof:  As  a  little 
child,  my  first  prayer  was  learnt  from  my  father's  lips  ; 
my  first  introduction ,  to  the  Bible,  which  he  honored  too 
much  to  make  a  task-book,  was  from  spelling  out  the  words 
of  the  first  chapter  of  the  Sermon  on  the  Mount  as  it  lay  on 
his  study  table ;  and  my  deepest  and  holiest  teachings,  too 
sacred  for  more  than  a  mere  illusion,  were  given  often  in  the 
dead  of  night,  when  I  was  sitting  up,  sometimes,  alone,  by 
my  father's  dying  bed.  These  are  strong  words  and  facts; 
but  they  are  called  forth,  not  unnecessarily,  by  the  impres- 
sion that  exists,  not  in  one  instance,  but  in  twenty,  as  to  my 
father's  disbelief  and  scepticism,  a  doubt  that  will  now  surely 
be  set  to  rest  forever  by  the  simple  and  unvarnished  truth 
of  those  who  knew  him  longest  and  best.  He  lay  for  some 
time  calmly,  but  breathing  slowly  and  with  difficulty.  My 
mother,  bending  over  him,  heard  him  say  faintly :  "O  Lord, 
say:  'Arise,  take  up  thy  cross,  and  follow  me!'" — Pages  457, 
460,  Volume  X^  "  The  Works  of  Tho^nas  Hood^  with  Memorials 
Prefixed^  and  Edited  with  Notes ^  by  his  Son  and  Daughter.^'' 


JOSEPH  COERTEN  HORNBLOWER, 

Jurist,  and  Professor  at  L'aw  at  Princeton  College. 

cy^  (1777-1864.) 

lET  this  precious  Volume  have  its  proper  influence  on 
the  hearts    of  men,   and  our   liberties  are  safe,    our 
'^  country  blessed,  and  the  world  happy.     There  is  not 
a  tie  that  unites  us  to  our  families,  not  a  virtue  that 
endears  us  to  our  country,  nor  a  hope  that  thrills  ycur  bos- 
oms  in   the  prospect  of  future  happiness  that  has  not  its 
foundation  in  this  sacred  Book.     It  is  the  charter  of  charters 


KING  EDWARD  VII., 

King  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland,  and   Emperor  of  India. 

Y  grandfather,  the  Duke  of  Kent,  warmly  advocated  the  claims  of  the  Bible, 
^▼J.  ^^^  i^  is  gratifying  for  me  to  reflect  that  the  two  modern  versions  of  the 
C>y^  Divine  Scriptures  most  widely  circulated  were  both,  in  their  origin,  con- 
nected with  my  family.  The  translation  bv  Martin  Luther  was  executed 
under  the  protection  of  the  Elector  of  Saxony,  the  collateral  ancestor  of  my  lamented 
father;  whilst  that  of  William  Tyndale  (the  foundation  of  the  present  authorized 
English  version)  was  introduced  with  the  sanction  of  the  royal  predecessor  of  my 
mother,  who  first  desired  that  the  Word  of  God  should  have  free  course  throughout 
the  world,  and  especially  in  his  own  realm. — Extract  from  Address  on  Laying  the 
Corner-SloTie  of  the  new  Bible  House,  Queen  Victoria  Street. 


MEN  WHOM   BRITONS   DELIGHT  TO  HONOR. 


Lord  Roberts, 

Page  }79. 


Sir  Evelyn  Wood, 

Page  480. 


Lord  Salisbury, 

Page  ^94. 

Marquis  of  Lansdowne, 

Page  298. 

Lord  Alverstone, 

Page  16. 


A  CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES.  237 

— the  palladium  of  liberty — the  standard  of  righteousness. 
Its  Divine  influence  can  soften  the  heart  of  the  tyrant,  can 
break  the  rod  of  the  oppressor,  and  exalt  the  humblest  peas- 
ant to  the  dignified  rank  of  an  immortal  being — an  heir  of 
eternal  glory.  Fellow  citizens,  friends  of  liberty !  will  you 
not  rejoice,  then,  with  me,  in  the  triumphs  of  the  Bible,  and 
bless  the  day  that  gave  to  our  country  a  society  whose  be- 
nevolent object  is  to  extend  the  influence  of  the  Scriptures 
throughout  the  world  ! — From  ^''Testimony  to  the  Value  of  the 
Sacred  Scriptures ^^  published  by  the  American  Bible  Society, 


HENRY  IV, 

First  French  King  of  the  House  of  Bourbon.    (1553-1610.) 

HOPE  to  be  made  partaker  of  the  merits  of  our  Sav- 
iour Christ ^s  passion,  most  humbly  beseeching  Him 
that  Pe  might  give  me  grace  to  continue  associated 
with  all  those  treasures  of  His  apostles. — Page  340, 
Volume  IV^  ' '  Memories  of  the  Duke  of  Sully. ' ' 


SAMUEL  HOUSTON, 

Oc-.n       Major-General  and  United  States  Senator.     (1793-1863.) 

JX  years  after  his  marriage  General  Houston  repre- 
sented Texas  in  the  United  States  Senate.  The  Sun- 
day after  his  arrival  in  Washington  he  attended  relig- 
ious service.  .  .  .  Approaching  the  pastor  after  serv- 
ice, he  said  that  respect  for  his  wife,  one  of  the  best  Christians 
on  earth,  had  brought  him  there.  The  pastor  expressed  the 
hope  that  deeper  feelings  than  those  which  bound  him  to  his 
wife  might  soon  bind  him  to  the  house  of  God.  Houston  an- 
swered with  a  warm  pressure  of  the  hand.  For  eight  years  he 
was  found  every  Sunday  morning  while  in  Washington  seated 
in  his  pew  near  the  pulpit.      One  Sunday  a  sermon  from 


238  A  CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

the  text :  "  Better  is  he  that  ruleth  his  spirit  than  he  that  tak- 
eth  a  city,"  aroused  him  to  decide  it  was  his  duty  to  make  a 
public  profession  of  his  faith  in  Jesus  Christ  as  the  Saviour 
of  men,  sent  by  God  to  teach  the  way  of  life.  He  accepted 
Him  heartily  as  his  Lord  and  Saviour,  declaring  that  for  the 
future  His  teachings  and  example  should  dominate  his  life. 
^^  Youths''  Companion^''  January  14,  1892. 


JOHN  HOWARD, 

English  Philanthropist.     (1726-1790.) 


ERE,  on  this  sacred  day,  I  once  more,  in  the  dust, 
before  the  Eternal  God,  acknowledge  my  sins  hein- 
ous in  His  sight.  I  would  have  the  deepest  sorrow 
and  contrition  of  heart,  and  cast  my  guilty  and 
polluted  soul  on  Thy  sovereign  mercy  in  the  Redeemer. 
Oh,  compassionate  and  Divine  Redeemer,  save  me  from  this 
dreadful  guilt  and  power  of  sin,  and  accept  my  solemn,  free, 
and,  I  trust,  unreserved,  full  surrender  of  my  soul,  my  spirit, 
my  dear  child,  and  all  I  am  and  have,  into  Thy  hands. — "  The 
Christian  Life^  Social  and  Individual^^^  by  Peter  Bayne. 


WILLIAM  DEAN  HOWELLS, 

Novelist. 

HE  Bible  itself  was  not  much  known  to  me  at  an  age 
most  children  were  taught  to  read  it  several  times 
over;  the  Gospels  were  indeed  familiar,  and  they 
have  always  been  to  me  the  supreme  human  story; 
but  the  rest  of  the  New  Testament  I  had  not  read  when  a 
man  grown,  and  only  passages  of  the  Old  Testament,  like 
the  story  of  the  Creation,  the  story  of  Joseph,  and  the  poems 
of  Job  and  Ecclesiastes,  with  the  Psalms.  I  therefore  came 
to  the  Holy  Scriptures  with  a  sense  at  once  fresh,  and  I  can 
never  be  too  glad  that  I  learned  to  see  them  under  the  vaster 
horizon  and  in  the  truer  perspective  of  experience. — ^^My 
Literary  Passions^''  in  The  Ladies''  Home  Journal^  February^ 
1895. 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  239 

OLIVER  OTIS  HOWARD, 

Major-General  of  the  United  States  Army. 

GO  to  the  Scriptures  daily  for  spiritual  food,  and  have 
done  so  for  thirty-five  years.  God  (as  revealed  to  me 
in  the  crucified,  the  risen,  and  the  ascended  Christ) 
meets  all  my  personal  wants — I  mean  those  that  per- 
tain to  my  soul.  These  wants  thus  met  are  but  a  drop  in  an 
ocean  compared  with  the  unstinted  blessings  which  I  observe 
are  granted  to  other  souls  through  the  sufl&ciency  of  Jesus 


C^r  c^r^ir-**^^-^^ 


WILLIAM   HOWITT, 

English  Author  and  Poet.     (1795-1879.) 

^HRIST  appeared — the  career  of  Paganism  was  checked 
'  C^  — the  fate  of  Judaism  was  sealed.    A  character  and  a 
^yi-Q^  religion  was  placed  before  the  eye  of  men,  hitherto  in- 
conceivable in  the  beauty  and  philanthropy  of  their 
nature.    Unlike  all  other  founders  of  a  religious  faith,  Christ 
had   no  selfishness,    no  desire  of  dominance. — ^''History  of 
Priestcraft^^^  by  William  Howitt. 

It  matters  not  whether  it  be  in  the  Church  or  State — the 
Bible  is  the  great  reformer.  You  may  mow  down  whole 
crops  of  reformers  as  you  would  grass,  but  if  you  leave  the 
root  of  all  reform,  the  Bible,  in  the  earth,  it  will  raise  up  ten 
times  more.  Make  what  laws  and  destroy  what  liberties  you 
will,  if  you  leave  the  Bible  free  it  will  again  leaven  the  whole 
lump  of  society,  and  your  labor  is  in  vain.  It  is  abroad  ;  it 
is  in  every  man's  house,  on  every  man's  table ;  and  its  still 
small  voice  is  perpetually  whispering,  ''  Woe  to  all  tyrants, 
and  oppressors  of  God's  children!"  It  is  the  voice  of  God, 
and  the  power  of  God ;  and  against  it  what  voice  or  what 
wisdom  can  prevail  ?      From  the  Bible  breathes  on  every 


240  A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

soul  near  it  the  eternal  sentiments  of  liberty,  independence, 
and  contempt  of  death.  While  the  Bible  is  free,  man  is  free  ! 
— ^^ English  Literature  of  the  Nineteenth  Century ^''^  by  Charles 
D,  Cleveland. 

SAMUEL  HUBBARD, 

Lawyer.     (1785-1847.) 

^N  the  fear  of   my  God  and   Saviour  I  undertake  the 
duties  of  this  office  (Associate  Justice  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Supreme  Court).     I  cast  myself  on  Him,  and 
look  to  Him  for  wisdom  and  strength.     I  pray  Him  to 
give  me  skill  to  discern,  and  integrity  to  judge  right. 

I  am  told  that  we  have  five  minutes  to  spare.  Much 
may  be  done  in  five  minutes.  In  five  minutes  Judas  be- 
trayed his  Master,  and  went  to  his  own  place.  In  five  min- 
utes the  thief  on  the  cross  repented,  and  went  with  his 
Saviour  to  Paradise.  No  doubt  many  of  those  before  me 
did  that  act  in  five  minutes  which  brought  them  to  this 
place.  In  five  minutes  you  may  repent  and  go  to  Paradise, 
or  will  you  imitate  Judas,  and  go  to  the  place  where  he  is? 
My  five  minutes  have  expired.* — Pages  279  and  2So_  of 
^^ American  Christian  Rulers ^^  by  Edward  J.  Giddings. 


THOMAS  HUGHES, 

Author  of  "  Tom  Brown's  School  Days,"  "  Tom  Brown 
at  Oxford,"  etc.     (1823-1896.) 

^HIS  Bible,  this  Book  of  the  chosen  people,  taken  as  a 
whole,  is,  in  short,  the  written  revelation  of  God. 
This  being  so,  there  can  be  no  other  inspired  book 
in  the  same  sense  in  which  the  Bible  is  inspired,  un- 
less we,  or  some  other  world,  are  not  redeemed,  require  an- 
other redemption  and  another  Christ.  But  as  we,  and  all 
worlds,  are  redeemed,  and  Christ  is  come,  and  God  has  re- 
vealed His  name  and  His  character  in  Christ  so  that  we 
*A  talk  to  the  prisoners  of  the  state  penitentiary. 


A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES.  241 

know  Him,  the  Bible  is  and  must  remain  the  inspired  Book 
for  all  time.  .  .  .  There  may  be  another  Homer,  Plato, 
Shakespeare ;  there  can  be  no  other  Bible. 

I  was  bred  as  a  child  to  look  upon  Christ  as  the  true  and 
rightful  King  and  Head  of  our  race,  the  Son  of  God,  and 
the  Son  of  Man.  When  I  came  to  think  for  myself  I  found 
the  want,  the  longing  for  a  perfect  righteous  king  and  head, 
the  deepest  of  which  I  was  conscious — for  a  being  in  whom  I 
could  rest,  who  was  in  perfect  sympathy  with  me  and  all  men. 
.  .  .  Then  the  teaching  which  has  sunk  into  me  uncon- 
sciously rose  up  and  seemed  to  meet  this  longing.  If  that 
teaching  were  true,  here  was  He  for  whom  I  was  in  search. 
I  turned  to  the  records  of  His  life  and  death.  I  read  and 
considered,  as  well  as  I  could,  the  character  of  Christ,  what 
He  said  of  Himself  and  His  work;  His  teachings,  His  acts. 
His  sufferings.  Then  I  found  that  this  was  indeed  He. 
Here  was  the  Head,  the  King,  for  whom  I  longed.  The 
more  I  read  and  thought,  the  more  absolutely  sure  I  became 
of  it.  This  was  He.  I  wanted  no  other  then.  I  have 
never  wanted  another  since  Him. — Pages  230  and  224  of 
''''True  Manliness ^^^  from  the  writmgs  of  Thomas  Hughes. 
Selected  by  E.  E.  Brown. 


FREDERICK  HEINRICH  ALEXANDER 
HUMBOLDT,* 

German  Naturalist.     (  1769-1859.) 

HRISTIANITY   has   materially  contributed   to   call 

S^  forth  this  idea  of  the  unity  of  the  human  race,  and 

has  tended  to  exercise  a  favorable  influence  on  the 

hmnanization  of  nations  in  their  morals,  manners,  and 

*His  brother,  Kari,  Wii^helm  Humboi^dt,  German  Statesman  and 
Philologist  (i 767-1835),  once  said:  "Religion  is  implanted  in  the  very 
nature  of  man.  The  religion  of  Christ  has  come  down  from  above  by  the 
special  will  of  God.  It  has,  however,  not  deprived  man  of  freedom  on 
this  point,  but  rather  has  conferred  it  upon  him  in  a  still  higher  degree." 
— Page  219,  ''Familiar  Quotations  from  German  and  Spanish  Authgrs,'' 
by  Chauford  Tait  Ramage. 


242  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

institutions.  ...  In  delineating  the  great  epoch  of  the 
history  of  the  universe  .  .  .  together  with  the  begin- 
nings of  Christianity,  it  would  be  impossible  not  to  direct 
special  attention  to  the  manner  in  which  the  religion  of 
Christ  enlarged  the  views  of  mankind,  and  to  the  mild  and 
long-enduring  influence  which  it  exercised  on  general,  intel- 
lectual, moral,  and  social  development. 

This  sentiment  is  nobly  and  vividly  manifested  in  all  the 
splendor  of  lyric  poetry  in  the  Psalms  of  David,  and  in  the 
schools  of  the  seers  and  prophets,  whose  exalted  inspiration, 
almost  wholly  removed  from  the  past,  turns  its  prophetic 
aspirations  to  the  future.  ...  The  lyrical  poetry  of  the 
Hebrews,  from  the  very  nature  of  the  subject,  is  grand  and 
solemn.  ...  As  descriptions  of  nature,  the  writings  of 
the  Old  Testament  are  a  faithful  reflection  of  the  character 
of  the  country  in  which  they  are  composed,  of  the  alternations 
of  barrenness  and  fruitfulness,  and  of  the  alpine  forests  by 
which  the  land  of  Palestine  was  characterized.  ...  It 
might  be  said  that  one  single  Psalm  (the  104th)  represents 
the  image  of  the  whole  Cosmos.  .  .  .  Similar  views  of 
the  Cosmos  occur  repeatedly  in  the  Psalms  (Psalms  Ixv, 
7-14,  and  Ixxiv,  15-17),  and  more  fully  perhaps  in  the  37th 
chapter  of  the  ancient,  if  not  the  antemosaic,  book  of  Job. 
— Pages  567,  568,  411,  415,  Volume  II^'''  Cosmos^^^  by  Alexan- 
der Von  Humboldt;  translated  from  the  German  by  E,  C.  Otte, 


LORD  FARRAR  HERSCHELL. 

Twice  Lord  Chancellor  of  England.     (1836-1899.) 

E  gather  here  as  zealous  and  earnest  men  of  differ- 
ent religious  bodies,  not  to  spread  the  views  of 
any  particular  section,  but  to  spread  Bible  Chris- 
tianity itself.  I  believe  the  future  century  has  in 
store  a  success  much  greater  than  the  marvels  of  the  past  in 
a  world-wide  extension  of  the  Gospel.  Now  or  never  we 
must  implant  in  the  hearts  of  millions  a  love  for  Jesus  Christ ; 
they  must  be  so  effectually  taught  in  the  Christian  faith  that 
they  would  be  willing  to  die  for  it. — Extract  from  his 
Speech  as  Chairman  of  the  London  Missionary  Society^  Ju7ie^ 

1895. 


A    CLOUD    OF    WlTNKvSSKS. 


243 


VICTOR  MARIE  HUGO, 

French  Poet  and   Romance  Writer.     (1802-1885.) 


THE   BOY   KING'S   PRAYER. 


O  dear  Jesus  !   thus 
Bowed  at  the  Cross  where  Thou  didst  bleed  for  us. 
I  swear  to  hold  the  truth  that  now  I  learn, 
Leal  to  the  loyal,  to  the  traitors  stern. 
And  ever  just  and  nobly  mild  to  be, 
Meek  scholar  of  that  prince  of  Chivalry; 
And  here  thy  shrine  bear  witness,  Lord,  for  me. 


*HE  poet  ought  to 
have  but  one  model, 
Nature;  only  one 
guide,  Truth.  O  f 
all  books  which  circulate 
among  men,  only  two  ought 
to  be  studied  by  him — 
Homer  and  the  Bible.  In 
them  we  find  the  whole 
creation  considered  under  a 
twofold  aspect.  In  Homer, 
by  the  genius  of  man ;  in 
the  Bible,  by  the  Spirit  of 
God. 
As  for  the  law  of  blood  for  blood,  gentlemen  of  the  jury, 
I  have  fought  it  all  my  life.  All  my  life — and  so  long  as 
there  remains  a  particle  of  blood  in  my  body — I  will  fight 
against  it  with  all  my  power  as  a  writer,  with  all  my  deeds  and 
votes  as  a  legislator.  I  declare  it  (pointing  to  Christ  on  the 
crucifix  above  the  judge's  bench),  I  declare  it  before  that  Vic- 
tim of  the  punishment  of  death  who  is  there,  who  sees  us, 
and  who  hears  us!  I  swear  it  before  the  gibbet,  to  which, 
nearly  two  thousand  years  ago,  for  an  eternal  lesson  to  the 

Note — The  first  tree  of  Liberty  was  planted  eig^hteen  hundred  years  ago  by  God 
Himself  on  Golgotha.  The  first  tree  of  Liberty  was  that  Cross  on  which  Jesus  Christ 
was  ofTered  a  sacrifice  for  the  salvation,  equality  and  fraternity  of  the  human  r&CQ.—See 
I'ictor  I  In  jo's  Adiress,  "The  Planting  0/ the  Liberty  Tree.'' 


244  A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

generations,  human  law  nailed  Divine  law. — From  a  speech 
in  the  Constituent  Assembly  against  capital  punishment^  voting 
for  its  abolition^  in  ''^ Brief  Biographies  of  French  Political 
Leaders!'^ 


SIR  WILLIAM  HUNTER, 

English  Statesman. 

.HE  great  object  of  this  Conference  is  to  stimulate  and 
encourage  all  evangelistic  agencies  in  pressing  for- 
ward in  obedience  to  the  last  command  of  our  risen 
Saviour,  "Go  ye  therefore,  and  make  disciples  of  all 
nations,"  especially  in  those  vast  regions  of  the  heathen 
world  in  which  the  people  are  still  "  sitting  in  darkness  and 
in  the  shadow  of  death,"  without  a  preached  Gospel,  or  the 
written  Word  of  God. — Introduction  to  Volume  /,  ^''Report  of 
the  Missionary  Conference ^^^  London^  1888. 


SIR  JOHN  C.  DALRYMPLE  HAY, 

British  Admiral ;  late  Lord  of  the  Admiralty. 

HAVE  tried  through  life  to  recognize  that  God  sees 
me ;  that  Christ  is  my  Saviour ;  that  in  the  storm  He 
could  still  the  tempest,  and  in  the  day  of  battle  He 
could  cover  my  head  and  make  every  bullet  have  its 
billet.  I  trust  His  arms  will  encircle  me  as  I  pass  through 
the  river.     All  these  blessings  I  find  in  His  Holy  Word, 


EDWARD   HYDE, 

First  Earl  of  Clarendon.     (1608-1674.) 

IVE  peaceably  with  all  men,  was  one  of  the  primitive 
injunctions  of  Christianity.     The  pleasure  that  God 
^  Himself  takes  in  that  temper  needs  no  other  manifes- 
tation than  the  promise  our  Saviour  makes  to  those 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES 


245 


who  contribute  towards  it  in  His  Sermon  on  the  Mount: 
Blessed  are  the  peacemakers,  for  they  shall  be  called  the 
children  of  God. — Page  62,  Volume  III,  '' Half- Hours  with 
the  Best  Authors^ ' '  by  Charles  Knight, 


JOHN  HAY, 

Ambassador  to  Great  Britain  under  President  McKinley;  Poet. 


SINAI  AND  CAIvVARY. 

UT  Calvary  stands  to  ransom 

The  earth  from  utter  loss ; 
In  shade  than  light  more  glorious 

The  shadow  of  the  Cross. 
To  heal  a  sick  world's  trouble, 

To  soothe  its  woe  and  pain, 
On  Calvary's  sacred  summit 

The  Pascal  lyamb  was  slain. 

Almighty  God  !  direct  us 
To  keep  Thy  perfect  Law ! 

O  blessed  Saviour,  help  us 
Nearer  to  Thee  to  draw  ! 

L<et  Sinai's  thunder  aid  us 
.  To  guard  our  feet  from  sin, 

And  Calvary's  light  inspire  us 
The  love  of  God  to  win. 


GEORGE  HUTCHISON, 

British  Major-General. 

|0  you  know  the  urgent  needs  of  the  Gospel  light  in 
all  Roman  countries?  How  the  people  receive  and 
handle  with  delight,  and  hear  with  astonishment  this, 
to  them,  absolutely  new  Book,  the  Gospel  of  Christ. 
We  must  place  before  them  an  open  Bible,  and  thus  bend  the 
will  of  this  imperial  race  to  Christ. — Declared  at  the  British 
and  Foreign  Bible  Society,  Ja^iuary,  1897. 


246 


A  CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


friend 


WASHINGTON  IRVING, 

Author.     (1783-1859.) 

ASHINGTON 
IRVING,    .     . 

.  the  kind  neigh- 
bor, the  faithful 
and  what  is  better 
than  all,  the  sincere  disciple 
of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  . 
.  .  On  more  than  one  oc- 
casion, when  questions  of 
ecclesiastical  order  or  sub- 
jects of  a  kindred  nature 
were  debated,  he  has  inter- 
posed, saying,  "  Let  us  live 
in  love.  We  are  all  striving 
for  the  same  object,  and  going  to  the  same  place  of  rest,  and 
why  should  there  be  contentions  by  the  way  ?  "  He  had  a 
broad  and  catholic  spirit,  which  he  manifested  not  only  in 
words  but  in  deeds.  In  quiet  simplicity,  with  a  heart  over- 
flowing with  kindness  toward  all  men,  and  filled  with  humil- 
ity before  God,  with  a  mild  and  amiable  nature  rendered 
more  lovely  by  the  religion  of  Jesus  Christ,  which  he  firmly 
believed  and  consistently  professed,  he  passed  his  days 
among  us  till  they  closed  with  the  closing  year.  It  is  most 
delightful  to  think  that  the  patriarch's  work  was  done,  and 
he  was  waiting  for  the  call  of  the  blessed  Master. — Eulogy  at 
his  Funeral  Service^  from  ^^ Grave  and  Pulpit. ^"^ 


Major-Generai.  von  Trumpiter  (Russian  Soldier) 
wrote  the  British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society,  September  16, 
1894,  from  Warsaw  Ujazdpwa  Military  Hospital:  ''The  gift 
of  the  Holy  Scriptures  to  patients  whose  diseases  are  often 
incurable  generally  exercises  a  most  beneficial  effect  on  the 
same.  The  reading  of  the  Word  of  God  fortifies  the  mind, 
raises  the  moral  power  of  the  patient,  and  at  the  same  time 
mitigates  the  suffering  caused  by  painfuj  illness." 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


247 


ANDREW  JACKSON, 

Seventh  President  of  the  United  States.     (1767-1845. 

.HE     Bible     is    true. 

Upon  that  sacred 

Volume    I    rest    my 

hope  of  eternal  sal- 
vation through  the  merits  of 
our  blessed  Lord  and  Sa- 
viour Jesus  Christ. 

First,  I  bequeath  my  body 
to  the  dust  whence  it  comes, 
and  my  soul  to  God  who 
gave  it,  hoping  for  a  happy 
immortality  through  the 
atoning  merits  of  our  Lord 
Jesus  Christ,  the  Saviour  of 
the  world. — First  clause  of 
his  will.  See  ^''Compilation 
of  Speeches  in  Memory  of 
General  Jacks  on  ^^  by  B.  M.  Dusenberry. 

My  dear  children,  do  not  grieve  for  me ;  it  is  true,  I  am 
going  to  leave  you;  I  am  well  aware  of  my  situation.  I  have 
suffered  much  bodily  pain,  but  my  sufferings  are  but  as 
nothing  compared  with  that  which  our  blessed  Redeemer 
endured  upon  the  accursed  Cross,  that  all  might  be  saved 
who  put  their  trust  in  Him.  ...  I  hope  and  trust  to  meet 
you  all  in  Heaven,  both  white  and  black — ^both  white  and 
black. — Death-bed  Testimony.  See  Page  174  of  ''''Famous 
American  Statesmen^^  by  Sarah  K.  Bolton. 


Edwin  Booth,  Tragedian  (1833-1893):  Believe  in  one 
truth — God  is !  And  as  surely  as  you  and  I  are  flesh  and 
blood,  so  are  we  also  spirits  eternal.  I  believe  it  beyond  a 
doubt.  ...  I  tell  you  it  is  not  well  to  forget  God  in  our  pros- 
perity; we  do  not  when  we  are  sinking;  infidels,  heathens, 
blasphemers,  all  think  of  Him  then.  .  .  .  May  Christ  be 
before  thee,  behind  thee,  and  around  thee! — ''^ Edwin  Booth; 
Recollections  by  his  daughter^  Edzvina  Booth  Grosman. 


248  A   CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

THOMAS  JONATHAN  JACKSON, 

(''STONEWALL") 

Confederate  Major-General.     (1824-1863.) 

>HE  subject  of  becom- 
ing a  herald  of  the 
Cross  has  often  seri- 
ously engaged  my  at- 
tcntion,  and  I  regard  it  as 
the  most  noble  of  all  profes- 
si  3ns.  It  was  the  profession 
1  the  Divine  Redeemer,  and 
I  should  not  be  surprised 
\\  sre  I  to  die  upon  a  foreign 
field,  clad  in  ministerial  ar- 
mor, fighting  under  the  ban- 
ner of  Jesus.  What  could  be 
more  glorious !  But  my  con- 
viction is  that  I  am  doing  good  here,  and  that  for  the  present 
I  am  where  God  would  have  me  be.  Within  the  last  few 
days  I  have  felt  an  unusual  religious  joy.  I  do  rejoice  to 
walk  in  the  love  of  God.  My  heavenly  Father  condescended 
to  use  me  as  an  instrument  in  getting  up  a  large  Sabbath 
school  for  the  negroes  here.  He  has  greatly  blessed  it,  and, 
I  trust,  all  who  are  connected  with  it. — ^^Life  and  Letters  by 
his  Wife^^^  Mary  Ann  Jackson. 


FRIEDERICH   HEINRICH  JACOBl, 

German  Philosopher;   President  of  the  Academy  of  Science, 
Munich,  1804.      (1743-1819.) 

KNOW  nothing  sublimer  and  profounder  than  the 
saying  of  the  New  Testament,  "Our  life  is  hid  with 
Christ  (the  God-man)  in  God." 
I  do  believe  on  account  of  miracles;  namely,  on  ac- 
count of  the  miracles  of  liberty,  which  is  a  continuous  mir- 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES.  249 

acle  on  which  Christianity  is  founded — the  reception  of  the 
Holy  Spirit  at  Pentecost. 

I  know  no  deeper  philosophy  than  that  of  Paul  in  the 
seventh  chapter  of  Romans.  In  the  merely  natural  man 
dwells  sin.  Regeneration  is  the  basis  of  Christianity.  He 
who  abolishes  the  doctrine  of  grace  from  the  Bible  abolishes 
the  Bible. 

Unquestionably,  our  life,  if  there  is  any  true  life  in  us,  is 
hidden  deep  within  us.  Nevertheless,  it  commands  abso- 
lutely its  own  preservation ;  it  commands  that  we  bring  it 
forth  to  the  light. — Selections  fro77i  the  ''''Flying  Leaves.'*'' 


^ 


JOHN  JAY,* 

Diplomat.     (1817-1894) 

.MONG  the  last  letters  written  by  the  late  John  Jay 
^r^  was  one  in  1826  to  the  corporation  of  the  City  of 
^q)o  New  York,  asking  him  to  unite  with  them  in  the 
^  celebration  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of  American 
Independence.  Jay,  in  his  reply,  expressed  his  '^  earnest  hope 
that  the  peace,  happiness,  and  prosperity  enjoyed  by  our 
beloved  country  may  induce  those  who  direct  her  national 
counsels  to  recommend  a  general  and  public  return  of  praise 
to  Him  from  whose  goodness  these  blessings  descend."  His 
son.  Judge  William  Jay,  records  in  the  life  of  his  father  that, 
at  a  time  when  his  recovery  seemed  hopeless,  he  was  urged 
by  one  of  the  family  to  tell  his  children  on  what  foundation 
he  rested  his  hopes,  and  from  what  source  he  drew  his  con- 
solation.    He  replied  simply  :     ''  They  have  the  BOOK." 

Jay  was  the  second  President  of  the  American  Bible  Soci- 
ety, the  Hon.  Elias  Boudinot,  President  of  the  Continental 
Congress,  having  been  the  first.  Boudinot  and  Jay  were 
both  of  Huguenot  descent,  and  exhibited  the  devotion  of 
their  ancestors  for  the  Bible.  Jay  was  the  President,  also,  of 
the  Westchester  County  Bible  Society,  an  association  ante- 

(*)  Grandson  of  the  First  Chief-Justice  of  the  U.  S.  Supreme  Court. 


250  A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

rior  in  date  to  the  National  association,  and  in  that  office  he 
was  succeeded  for  many  years  first  by  one  of  his  sons,  and 
then  by  one  of  his  grandsons. 


y^^'^i^^t  ^ 


"It  is  high  time  to  wake  out  of  sleep !"  This  gathering 
of  citizens  from  distant  parts,  representing  the  millions  who 
hold  to  the  Bible,  and  cherish  the  institutions  founded  upon 
its  inspired  truths,  shows  that  the  nation  is  awakening  to  the 
perils,  foreign  and  domestic,  which  threatens  the  purity  of  its 
Christian  civilization. 

Its  intellectual  and  moral  strength  in  our  Revolutionary 
struggle  were  recognized  by  the  world,  and  Burke  rightly 
attributed  that  strength  to  the  character  of  the  emigrants 
from  various  lands  exhibiting  "the  dissidence  of  dissent  and 
the  Protestantism  of  the  Protestant  religion."  They  brought 
with  them  the  best  and  most  heroic  blood  of  the  peoples  of 
Europe-^— of  the  Hollanders,  the  Waloons  of  Flanders,  the 
Huguenots  of  France,  the  English,  Welsh,  Scotch,  and  Irish, 
of  the  Norwegians  and  Swedes,  the  Germans  and  the  Swiss, 
of  the  Bohemian  followers  of  John  Huss,  of  the  Albigenses 
and  Waldenses  of  the  Italian  Alps,  of  the  Salzbury  exiles,  the 
Moravian  brothers,  with  refugees  from  the  Pallatinate,  Alsace 
and  southern  Germany.  They  all  brought  the  Bible,  for 
which  they  and  their  ancestors  had  been  ready  to  suffer  and 
to  die ;  and  their  devotion  to  that  Book  descended  to  the  Con- 
tinental Congress,  which,  a  week  before  it  was  driven  from 
Philadelphia,  ordered  an  importation  of  twenty  thousand 
Bibles.  At  the  Centennial  celebration,  at  Philadelphia,  of 
the  Declaration  of  Independence,  the  Acting  Vice-President, 
Ferry,  said  that  the  American  statesmen  who  had  to  choose 
between  the  royal  authority  or  popular  sovereignty  had 
been  inspired  by  the  truth  uttered  on  Mars  Hill,  and  repeated 
in  the  opening  prayer  of  the  morning,  that  "  God  hath  made 
of  one  blood  all  nations  of  men." — Pages  8  and  c^^  ''''National 
Perils  and  Opportunities ^^^  1887. 


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JOHN  JAY, 


First  Chief-Justice  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court. 
(1745-1829  ) 

N  forming  and  settling  my  belief  relative  to  the  doc- 
trines of  Christianity,  I  adopted  no  articles  from  creeds 
K^.  but  such  only  as,  on  careful  examination,  I  found  to  be 
confirmed  by  the  Bible.  ...  At  a  party  in  Paris,  once, 
the  question  fell  on  religious  matters.  In  the  course  of  it, 
one  of  them  asked  me  if  I  believed  in  Christ  ?  I  answered  that 
I  did,  and  that  I  thanked  God  that  I  did. — Page  360,  ''''John 
Jay^ "  "  American  Statesman  Series^ ' '  by  George  Pellew. 

By  conveying  the  Bible  to  people  thus  circumstanced  we 
certainly  do  them  a  most  interesting  kindness.  We  thereby 
enable  them  to  learn  that  man  was  originally  created  and 
placed  in  a  state  of  happiness,  but,  becoming  disobedient,  was 
subjected  to  the  degradation  and  evils  which  he  and  his 
posterity  have  since  experienced.  The  Bible  will  also  inform 
them  that  our  gracious  Creator  has  provided  for  us  a  Re- 
deemer, in  whom  all  the  nations  of  the  earth  shall  be  blessed ; 
that  this  Redeemer  has  made  atonement  *'for  the  sins  of  the 
whole  world, "  and  thereby  reconciling  the  Divine  justice  with 
the  Divine  mercy  has  opened  a  way  for  our  redemption  and 
salvation ;  and  that  these  inestimable  benefits  are  of  the  free 
gift  and  grace  of  God,  not  of  our  deserving,  nor  in  our  power 
to  deserve. — From  an  Address  while  President  of  the  American 
Bible  Society^  1834,  the  last  office  he  ever  filled. 


JOSEPH  JEFFERSON, 

Actor. 


N  invisible  organ  began  a  solemn  dirge,  and  as  the 
curtain  rose,  before  me  was  Mount  Calvary,  with  a 
complete  tableau  of  the  crucifixion,  the  whole  scene 
represented  by  living  figures — Christ  upon  the  cross, 
and  the  two  thieves.  I  saw  at  once  by  the  reverence  of  the 
audience  that  no  sacrilege  was  intended.     I  was  transfixed 


252 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 


with  wonder.  In  the  distance  there  were  dark  clouds  streaked 
at  the  horizon  line  with  blood-red  color.  The  walls  of  the 
distant  city  were  dimly  visible.  The  patient  anguish  of  our 
Saviour  was  wonderfully  delineated  in  the  upturned  face. 
The  curtain  slowly  fell  as  the  organ  pealed  out  a  solemn 
hymn,  and  the  audience  rose  and  left  with  a  quiet,  noiseless 
step,  as  if  they  were  going  from  church. — A  Religious  Tab- 
leau at  Callio^  pages  289,  290  of  "  The  Autobiography^^''  by 
Joseph  Jefferson. 


THOMAS  JEFFERSON, 

Third  President  of  the  United  States.     (  1743-1826.) 

MORE  beautiful  or 
precious  morsel  of 
ethics*    I    have 
never  seen  ;  it  is  a 
document  in  proof  that  /  am 
a  real  Christian ;  that  is  to 
say,  a  disciple  of  the   doc- 
trines of  Jesus. — Page  142, 
''''Lives  of  the  Presidents  of 
the    United  States^''  by  John 
S.  C.  Abbott  and  Russell  H. 
Conwell. 

They  are  the  result  of  a 
life  of  inquiry  and  reflection,  and  very  different  from  that 
antichristian  system  imputed  to  me  by  those  who  know 
nothing  of  my  opinions.  To  the  corruptions  of  Christianity 
I  am  indeed  opposed,  but  not  to  the  genuine  precepts  of 
Jesus  Himself.  ** — Page  277,  Volume  I  11^  ^''Library  of  Amer- 
ican Literature!''' 

1.  The  doctrines   of  Jesus  are  simple   and   tend   to  the 
happiness  of  man. 

2.  There  is  only  one  God,  and  He  is  all  perfect. 

*  Collected  by  himself  from  the  sayings  of  Jesus,  and  arranged  in  a 
blank  book. 

**  To  Benjamin  Rush,  on  the  Christian  Religion. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  253 

3.  There  is  a  future  state  of  rewards  and  punishment. 

4.  To  love  God  with  all  the  heart  and  thy  neighbor  as 
thyself  is  the  sum  of  all.  These  are  the  great  points  on 
which  to  reform  the  religion  of  the  Jews. — ''''Life  of  Jeffer- 
son^^'' by  Shmuchcr. 

No  one  sees  with  greater  pleasure  than  myself  the  progress 
of  reason  in  its  advance  toward  rational  Christianity,  and  my 
opinion  is  that  if  nothing  had  ever  been  added  to  what 
flowed  from  His  lips,  the  whole  world  would  at  this  day 
been  Christian.  .  .  .  Had  there  never  been  a  commen- 
tator there  never  would  have  been  an  infidel.  I  have  little 
doubt  that  the  whole  country  will  soon  be  rallied  to  the  unity 
of  our  Creator,  and,  I  hope,  to  the  pure  doctrines  of  Jesus 
also. — Pages  283  and  284,  Volume  II J  ^^ Library  of  American 
Literature.''^ 


SOAME  JENYNS, 

English  Author,  and  Member  of  Parliament,  1741-1780. 
(1704-1787.) 

^HE  Scriptures  are  the  history  of  a  revelation  from 
God ;  the  revelation  itself  is  derived  from  God ;  the 
history  of  it  is  the  production  of  men,  and  therefore 
the  truth  of  it  is  not  the  least  affected  by  their  falli- 
bility, but  depends  on  the  internal  evidence  of  its  own  super- 
natural excellence. 

That  Christ  suffered  and  died  as  an  atonement  for  the  sins 
of  mankind  is  a  doctrine  so  constantly  and  so  strongly  en- 
lorced  through  every  part  of  the  New  Testament  that  who- 
ever will  seriously  peruse  those  writings  and  deny  that  it  is 
there,  may,  with  as  much  reason  and  truth,  after  reading  the 
works  of  Thucydides  and  Livy,  assert  that  in  them  no  mention 
is  made  of  any  facts  relative  to  the  histories  of  Greece  and 
Rome. — Froin  his  essay^  ^^A  View  of  the  hiternal  Evidence 
of  the  Christian  Religion^''  Volume  XI V^  '"''The  Evangelical 
Family  Library.^'' 


254  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

RICHARD  HENRY  JESSE, 

President  of  the  University  of  Missouri. 

AM  asked  what  I  think  of  Christ  and  the  Bible.     The 
question  pierces  to  my  inner  personal  belief. 

This  conviction  abides  with  me  constantly  and 
firmly :  that  of  myself  I  am  a  sinner  utterly  undone, 
but  that  through  the  infinite  mercy  of  God,  as  declared  by 
Jesus  Christ,  I  may  attain  to  higher  life  here  and  hereafter ; 
and  likewise  this  belief:  that  the  Holy  Scriptures  are  the 
authoritative  revelation  of  God. 


A.  J.  MOUNTENEY  JEPHSON, 

African  Explorer  with  Stanley. 

E  had  been  toiling  through  a  long  march  and  were 
parched  and  dried  up  when,  in  the  distance,  we 
saw  a  huge  pile  of  rock,  rising  like  an  island  from 
the  plain,  in  the  shadow  of  which  we  camped. 
Never  did  I  so  well  understand  what  is  said  in  Isaiah — "The 
shadow  of  a  great  rock  in  a  weary  land  " — as  an  ideal  of  rest 
and  relief.  The  words  came  into  my  mind  directly  I 
sighted  it,  and  I  felt  pleasure  in  repeating  them  as  I  actually 
sat  in  the  shadow  of  the  great  rock  with  the  burning  "weary 
land  "  around.  These  sayings  and  similes  in  the  Bible  are  so 
much  more  vividly  understood  when  a  person  has  been  in 
these  countries.  I  remember  once,  when  I  had  nothing  to 
read,  Stanley  lent  me  his  Bible,  and  after  having  been  in  the 
country  on  the  plain  about  Kavallis  with  people  who  lived 
amongst  their  flocks  and  herds,  I  could  exactly  see  the  lives 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  255 

of  Abraham,  Isaac,  and  Jacob  as  described  in  the  Bible; 
scenes  I  had  remembered  on  these  mountain  plains  rose  be- 
fore me  on  reading  Genesis.  These  seemed  to  have  fresh 
beauty  in  descriptions  which  before  I  had  passed  without 
notice. — Pages  386  and  387,  ''''Emin  Pasha  and  the  Rebellion 
at  the  Equator^''  by  A.  J.  Mounteney  Jephson, 


ANDREW  JOHNSON, 

Seventeenth  President  of  the  United  States.     (1808-1875.) 

DO  believe  in  ALMIGHTY  GOD !    And  I  believe  also 

in  the  BIBLE. 

Let  us  look  forward  to  the  time  when  we  can  take 

the  flag  of  our  country  and  nail  it  below  the  Cross, 
and  there  let  it  wave  as  it  waved  in  the  olden  times,  and  let 
us  gather  around  it  and  inscribe  for  our  motto:  "  Liberty  and 
Union,  one  and  inseparable,  now  and  forever,"  and  exclaim, 
Christ  first,  our  country  next! 

Is  there  a  crusade  to  be  commenced  against  the  Church  to 
satiate  disappointed  party  vengeance?  Are  the  persecutions 
of  olden  times  to  be  revived?  Are  the  ten  thousand  temples 
that  have  been  erected,  based  upon  the  sufierings  and  atone- 
ment of  our  crucified  Saviour,  with  their  glittering  spires 
wasting  themselves  in  the  very  heavens,  all  to  topple  and  to 
fall,  crushed  and  buried  beneath  the  ravings  of  party  excite- 
ment? Is  man  to  be  set  upon  man,  and  in  the  name  of  God 
lift  his  hand  against  the  throat  of  his  fellow?  .  .  .  Are 
the  fires  of  heaven  that  have  been  lighted  up  by  the  CrosG, 
and  now  burning  upon  so  many  altars  consecrated  to  the 
true  and  living  God,  to  be  quenched  in  the  blood  of  their 
innocent  and  defenseless  worshipers,  and  the  gutters  of  our 
streets  made  to  flow  with  human  gore?  This  is  but  a  faint 
reality  of  what  is  shadowed  forth  in  the  gentleman's  speech. 
— Pages  274,  247,  and  34,  ^^The  Life  and  Public  Services  of 
Andrew  fohnson^^''  by  fohn  Savage. 


256 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


SAMUEL  JOHNSON, 

English  Lexicographer  and  "Writer.     (1709-1784.) 


T  appears  evident  that 
the  writers  of  the  Old 
Testament    were    the 
original  and  best  writ- 
ters,  and  that  from  them  are 
borrowed  numerous  ideas  at- 
tributed to  the  poets  them- 
selves.— See  Dr.  Johnson  on 
the  ^^Orie7ital  Eloquence   of 
Collins.^'' 

Almighty  God,  the  Giver 
of  all  good  things,  without 
whose  help  all  labor  is  in- 
effectual, and  without  whose 
grace  all  wisdom  is  folly,  grant,  I  beseech  Thee^  that  in  this 
undertaking  Thy  Holy  Spirit  may  not  be  withheld  from  me, 
but  that  I  may  promote  Thy  glory  and  the  salvation  of  my- 
self and  others ;  grant  this,  O  Lord,  for  the  sake  of  Thy  Son, 
Jesus  Christ.  Amen. — A  prayer  before.e7ttering  07i  the  work 
of  "  The  Rambler r 

I  bless  Thee  for  creation,  preservation,  and  redemption; 
for  the  knowledge  of  Thy  Son,  Jesus  Christ.  .  .  .  Create 
in  me  a  contrite  heart  that  I  may  worthily  lament  my  sins 
and  acknowledge  my  wickedness,  and  obtain  remission  and 
forgiveness  through  the  satisfaction  of  Jesus  Christ.  .  .  . 
Grant  this.  Almighty  God,  for  the  merits  and  through  the 
mediation  of  our  most  holy  and  blessed  Saviour,  Jesus 
Christ;  to  whom,  with  Thee  and  the  Holy  Spirit,  three 
Persons  in  one  God,  be  all  honor  and  glory,  world  without 
end.  Amen. — Extracts  from  birthday  prayer^  transcribed 
June  26,  1768.  See  ^''Prayers  and  Meditations  ^^'^  Vol,  I  J  of 
the  ivorks  of  Samuel  Johnson^  with  an  Essay  on  his  Life  and 
Genius^  by  Arthur  Murphy. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  257 

WILLIAM  PRESTON  JOHNSTON, 

President  Tulane  University  of  Louisiana. 

REGARD  the  Scripture  as  a  revelation  by  God  for  the 
illumination  of  the  human  soul,  and  as  a  chart  for  the 
practical  conduct  of  man,  to  be  found  by  each  individ- 
ual searching  for  it. 
My  opinion  of  Jesus  Christ  is  a  deep-seated  belief,  and  is 
contained  in  the  Apostolic  creed.     I  accept  His  divinity  and 
and  trust  His  Saviourship  to  the  very  end.     He  is  to  me 
''  the  Way,  the  Truth,  and  the  Life." 


RICHARD  C.  JONES, 

President  of  the  University  of  Alabama. 

BELIEVE  Jesus  Christ  to  be  the  only  begotten  Son 
of  God ;  that  he  descended  from  heaven,  and  took 
upon  Himself  the  form  of  man,  and  died  that  fallen 
man  might  be  saved  ;  that  He  sits  now  on  the  right 
hand  of  God  interceding  for  us,  and  that  it  is  only  through 
His  merits  and  faith  in  Him  crucified  and  risen  from  the 
dead  that  we  can  have  a  reasonable  hope  of  salvation. 

I  believe  the  Holy  Bible  to  be  the  inspired  Word  of  God, 
and  that  while  parts  of  it  can  not  be  understood  by  finite  man, 
that  if  we  follow  its  teachings  as  we  understand  them  and 
are  faithful  unto  the  end  we  shall  be  saved,  and  then  that  we 
will  no  longer  "  see  through  a  glass  darkly,"  but  that  all 
things  shall  be  revealed  unto  us.  I  believe  ''  the  Bible  is  the 
only  chart  by  which  to  navigate  the  sea  of  Life  and  reach  the 
coast  of  Bliss  securely,"       ^  /> 


2=^8 


A   CIvOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


BEN  JONSON, 

English  Dramatist  and  Poet- Laureate.     (1574-1637.) 


TO  THE  HOLY  TRINITY. 

<TERNAL  Father,  God,  who  didst  create 
This  all  of  nothing,  gav'st  it  form  and  fate, 
'Q^  And  breath'st  into  it  life  and  light,  with  state 
To  worship  Thee ! 
Eternal  God  the  Son,  who  not  deniedst 
To  take  our  nature,  becam'st  man,  and  diest, 
To  pay  our  debts,  upon  the  cross,  and  cried'st 
All's  done  in  Me ! 


Eternal  Spirit,  God,  from  both  proceeding. 

Father  and  Son  ;  the  Comforter,  inbreeding 

Pure  thoughts  in  man,  with  fiery  zeal  them  feeding 

For  acts  of  grace ! 
Increase  those  acts,  O  glorious  Trinity 
Of  persons,  still  one  God  in  Unity, 
Till  I  attain  the  longed-for  mystery 

Of  seeing  your  face. 


A   C]^OUD   OF   WITNESSES.  259 

Beholding  one  in  three,  and  three  in  one, 

A  Trinity,  to  shine  in  Unity : 

The  gladdest  light  dark  man  can  think  upon — 

Oh,  grant  it  me ! 
Father  and  Son  and  Holy  Ghost,  you  three, 
All  coeternal  in  your  majesty, 
Distinct  in  persons,  yet  in  unity 

One  God,  to  see. 

My  Maker,  Saviour,  and  my  Sanctifier, 
To  hear,  to  meditate,  sweeten  my  desire. 
With  grace,  with  love,  with  cherishing  entire ! 

Oh,  then,  how  blest 
Among  Thy  saints  elected  to  abide. 
And  with  Th}^  angels,  placed  side  by  side  ! 
But  in  Thy  presence,  truly  glorified. 

Shall  I  there  rest. 


SIR  WILLIAM  JONES, 

English  Orientalist  and  Linguist.     (  1746-1794.) 

CAN  NOT  help  believing  the  divinity  of  the  Messiah 
from  the  indisputable  antiquity  and  manifest  comple- 
tion of  many  prophecies  (especially  those  of  Isaiah) 
as  the  only  Person  recorded  in  history  to  whom  they 
are  applicable. — Page  408,  Volume  VI^  '-''British  Plutarch^ 

I  have  carefully  and  regularly  perused  the  Holy  Scrip- 
tures, and  am  of  the  opinion  that  that  Volume,  independently 
of  its  Divine  origin,  contains  more  sublimity,  pure  morality, 
more  important  history,  both  of  poetry  and  eloquence,  than 
could  be  collected  within  the  same  compass  from  ail  other 
books  that  were  ever  composed  in  any  age  or  in  any  idiom. 
The  two  parts  of  which  the  Scriptures  consist  are  con- 
nected by  a  chain  of  composition  which  bear  no  resem- 
blance in  form  or  style  to  any  that  can  be  produced  from 
the  stores  of  Grecian,  Indian,  Persian,  or  even  Arabian  learn- 
ing.*    The  antiquity  of  these  compositions  no  man  doubts ; 

*  Sir  William  Jones  was  the  master  of  thirteen  languages,  and  was  fa- 
miliar with  twenty-eight  others. 


26o  A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

and  the  unrestrained  application  of  them  to  events  long  sub- 
sequent to  their  publication  is  a  solid  ground  of  belief  that 
they  were  genuine  compositions,  and  consequently  inspired. 
Lord  TeignmoMth' s  Life  of  Sir  William  Jones. 


STEPHEN  A.  JONES, 

President  of  Nevada  State  University. 

AM  a  firm  believer  in  the  divinity  of  Christianity's 
Christ,  and  in  the  inspiration  of  Christianity's  Bible. 
I  believe  that  scarcely  any  one  can  read  the  Book 
without  being  benefited  thereby.  A  student  of  five 
languages,  and  fairly  conversant  with  their  literatures,  I 
know  of  nothing  that  equals  certain  chapters  in  lofty  senti- 
ment, high  ideals,  beautiful  imagery,  and  word-painting.  I 
have  derived  the  greatest  pleasure  and  profit  from  Isaiah 
XXXV.;  Habakkuk  iii.;  Psalms  i.,  viii.,  xii.,  xix.,  xxiii.,  xlvii., 
and  ciii.;  Christ's  Sermon  on  the  Mount ;  John  xvii.;  James 
iii.,  and  Revelation  xxi  and  xxii. 


DAVID  STARR  JORDAN, 

President  of  The  Leland  Stanford,  Jr.,  University. 

^HE  Bible  was  written  by  outdoor  men ;  if  we  would 
understand  it,  we  must  read  it  out  of  doors."     They 
were  shepherds  and  fishermen  who  wrote  the  Bible, 
men  who  night  after  night  had  been  under  the  stars, 
and  to  whom  the  grass  of  the  Judean  hills  had  made  the  most 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  •  261 

comfortable  of  pillows.  Even  kings  and  prophets  were  out- 
door men  in  the  days  of  Samuel  and  David.  Outdoor  men 
speak  of  out-of-door  things,  and  each  man  who  speaks  with 
authority  must  speak  of  things  which  he  knows. 

Have  we  not,  in  fact,  in  the  character  of  Christ  a  culmina- 
tion of  the  potentialities  of  humanity  ?  May  we  not  find  in 
Him  who  said,  in  the  presence  of  His  tormentors,  ''  Father 
forgive  them  for  they  know  not  what  they  do,"  at  least  one 
extreme  of  the  series  by  which  man  had  risen  above  the 
brute  ?  If  Christ  be  the  perfect  man,  He  is  perfect  in  this, 
that  the  potentialities  of  the  race  find  its  fulfillment  in  Him. 
Who  was  so  wise,  so  loving,  so  self-devoted  as  He  ?  Toward 
such  a  height  we  must  be  rising,  else  our  development  is  but 
partial,  degenerate,  awry.  Seen  in  contact  with  the  perfect 
humanity,  all  else  we  know  is  but  infantile.  Our  growth  is 
finished,  decay  and  death  overtake  us  long  before  we  begin 
to  realize  any  appreciable  nearness  to  the  sublime  ideal  of 
the  Christian  faith.  This  fact  we  must  recognize,  whatever 
our  creed  or  philosophy,  that  all  progress  toward  the  ideal 
manhood  is  in  the  direction  of  the  Christly  living.  The  law  of 
progress,  the  law  of  growth  :  does  not  this  law  gain  in  force 
and  impressiveness  to  us  as  we  recognize  it  as  the  same  law 
which  works  through  all  life  ?  It  has  worked  in  the  lowest 
forms  which  have  held  the  human  potentiality,  and  through 
the  slowly  diverging  series  up  to  man,  who  has  in  him  the 
germ  of  the  Christ,  the  Son  of  the  living  God. 


(^^._.o^^c,^      ^   •  A 


WILLIAM  JOHNSTON, 

Member  of  Parliament  since  1885  ;  Orange  Leader. 

lESIDE  me  lies  a  Bible,  given  me  on  my  thirteenth 
birthday,  by  a  loving  mother.  It  was  my  "Boy's 
Own  Book,"  and  the  Holy  Spirit  made  its  message 
of  life  plain  to  me  and  guided  me  into  truth,  accord- 
ing to  Christ's  precious  promise.  His  blood  cleansed  me 
from  all  sin,  and  His  robe  of  righteousness  has  covered  me. 


^•^7;/^^^' 


262  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

THEODORE  SIMON  JOUFFROY, 

(^  ^^  French  Philosopher.     (1796-1842.) 

OW  this  superiority  of  power  is  a  new  circumstance, 
which  appears  to  give  Christianity  brighter  and 
brighter  promise  of  the  conquest  of  the  world. 
The  Christian  system  is  making  progress,  and 
rapid  progress,  while  others  are  decaying ;  the  nations  which 
compose  it  are  every  day  becoming  more  united,  and  grow- 
ing into  a  powerful  aggregate,  which  nothing  on  earth  is 
able  to  resist.  It  is  impossible  for  the  religion  of  Christ  to 
be  absorbed  in  either  of  the  others;  on  the  contrary,  it  is 
beginning  to  absorb  them  both,  or,  at  least,  to  reduce  the 
territory  which  they  occupy;  and  there  is  every  reason  to 
believe  that  these  conquests  will  soon  go  on  with  increasing 
rapidity. — See  his  Essay  on  ''^  The  Present  State  of  Humanity  y 


FRANCISCUS  JUNIUS, 

English  Philologist.     (1589-1677.) 

riMTY  father,  who  was  frequently  reading  the  New  Testa- 
-  ^1-  ineiit,  and  had  long  observed  with  grief  the  progress 
C>x^  I  made  in  infidelity,  had  put  that  Book  in  my  way 
in  his  library  with  a  view  to  attract  my  attention,  if 
it  might  please  God  to  bless  his  design,  though  without  giv- 
ing me  the  least  intimation  of  it.  Here,  therefore,  I  unwit- 
tingly opened  the  New  Testament  thus  providentially  laid 
before  me.  At  the  very  first  view,  as  I  was  deeply  engaged 
in  other  thoughts,  that  grand  chapter  of  the  Evangelist  and 
Apostle  presented  itself  to  me,  "In  the  beginning  was  the 
Word."  I  read  a  part  of  the  chapter,  and  was  so  affected 
that  I  instantly  became  struck  with  the  divinity  of  the  argu- 
ment, and  the  majesty  and  authority  of  the  composition,  as 
infinitely  surpassing  the  highest  flights  of  human  eloquence. 
My  body  shuddered ;  my  mind  was  in  all  amazement ;  and  I 
was  so  agitated  the  whole  day  that  I  scarcely  knew  who  I 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  263 

was.  "  Thou  didst  remember  me,  O  Lord  my  God,  accord- 
ing to  Thy  boundless  mercy,  and  didst  bring  back  the  lost 
sheep  of  Thy  flock."  From  that  day  God  wrought  so 
mightily  in  me  by  the  power  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  that  I  be- 
gan to  have  relish  for  all  other  studies  and  pursuits,  and 
bent  myself  with  greater  ardor  and  attention  to  everything 
which  had  a  relation  to  God. — Page  224,  ^''The  Biblical  Mu- 
seuni^^  on  the  Gospel  of  John. 


IMMANUEL  KANT, 

German  Metaphysician.     (1724-1804.) 

;N  the  life  and  the  Divine  doctrine  of  Christ  which  are 
recorded  in  the  Gospel,  example  and  precept  conspire 
to  call  men  to  the  regular  discharge  of  every  moral 
duty  for  its  ow^n  sake,  and  to  the  universal  practice  of 
pure  virtue.  '^  He  can't  be  wrong  whose  life  is  in  the  right." 
The  Sermon  on  the  Mount,  in  particular,  comprises  so  pure 
a  doctrine  of  religion,  which  Jesus  obviously  had  the  in- 
tention of  introducing  among  the  Jews,  that  we  can  not 
avoid  considering  it  the  Word  of  God.  Beyond  doubt, 
Christ  is  the  Founder  of  the  first  true  Church ;  that  is,  that 
Church  which,  purified  from  the  folly  of  superstition  and 
the  meanness  of  fanaticism,  exhibits  the  moral  kingdom  of 
God  upon  the  earth  as  far  as  can  be  done  for  man. — ^^An 
Inquiry  into  the  Existence  of  God^''''  by  ImmanMel  Kant. 


Alfred  E.  Fletcher,  editor  of  The  Daily  Chronicle, 
London :  Christ  has  not  failed,  and  our  religion  is  not  played 
out  if  it  is  based  on  the  New  Testament.  .  .  Not  only  was 
Olympus  emptied  of  its  gods  at  the  birth  of  our  Redeemer, 
but  the  old-world  despotisms,  based,  as  they  were,  on  individ- 
ualism, capitalism,  and  greed,  had  their  powers  shaken  to 
their  foundations. — Review  of  Reviews,  October,  1894. 


264  A  CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

LESLIE  E.  KEELEY, 

Reformer ;  Physician ;  Discoverer  of  "  Gold  Cure  "  for 
Inebriety. 

HE  following  texts  from  the  Book  of  books  express 
my  belief  better  than  I  can  in  words  of  my  own  : 

''  All  Scripture  is  given  by  inspiration."     "  Believe 
on  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  and  thou  shalt  be  saved." 


THE  RIGHT  HONORABLE  SIR  JOHN 
HENRY  KENNAWAY, 

President  of  the  Church  Missionary  Society;  Member  of 
the  British  Parliament. 

EARNESTLY  pray  that  the  final  result  will  be  the 
winning  of  the  world  to  Christ.  .  .  .  It  is  laid 
upon  us  to  witness  for  the  Divine  Master,  and  to  pub- 
lish His  Gospel  everywhere.  .  .  .  The  standard 
of  the  Cross  must  float  over  the  dominions  of  the  Queen ;  aye, 
and  beyond  it  to  the  uttermost  parts  of  the  earth. — See  Ad- 
dresses when  President  of  the  Church  Missionary  Society, 


WILLIAM  DARRAH  KELLEY, 

Congressman  (1860-1890)  —  "  Father  of  the  House." 

<>.        .  (1814-1890). 


IMTY  long-time  friend,  I  want  to  tell  you  that  I  am  a 
-  ^\.  d^^id  man ;  yes,  to  tell  you,  but  please  do  not  repeat 
C>x^  it  to  others.  Oh,  if  my  life  can  only  be  spared  to 
the  holidays,  how  thankful  to  my  God  will  I  be.  I 
so  much  desire  that  the  shadow  of  death  may  not  be  upon 
the  households  of  my  dear  children  and  grandchildren  to 
mar  their  Christmas  festivities  and  to  darken  in  my  family 
the  brightness  of  that  festive  time."     He  knew  that  the  end 


A  CLOUD  OF  WITNESSES.  265 

was  coming,  but  he  realized  that  there  was  One  to  whom  he 
could  look  for  ease  and  comfort  in  the  passing  hours  of  his 
trials  on  earth,  and  calling,  time  and  again,  upon  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ,  his  Divine  Lord  and  Saviour,  and  repeating 
over  and  over  again,  by  night  and  by  day,  the  Lord's  prayer, 
taught  him  by  his  Christian  mother. — In  Memorial  Address 
of  Congressman  O^Neill^  published  by  the  United  States  Con- 
gress^ 1890. 

JAMES  KENT, 

Lawyer;    Author  of  "  Commentaries."     (1763-1847.) 

HRISTIANITY  in  its  enlarged  sense,  as  a  reHgion 
y^  revealed  and  taught  in  the  Bible,  is  part  and  parcel 
of  the  law  of  the  land.  .  .  .  Nor  are  we  bound 
by  any  expression  of  the  Constitution,  as  some  have 
strangely  supposed,  either  not  to  punish  at  all,  or  to  punish 
indiscriminately  like  attacks  upon  the  religion  of  Mahomet 
and  the  Grand  Lama  ;  and  for  this  plain  reason,  that  we  are 
a  Christian  people^  and  the  morality  of  the  country  is  deeply 
engrafted  upon  Christianity^  and  not  upon  the  doctrines  or 
worship  of  these  impostors. — Page  290,  ^^Johnsoit's  Reports^^ 
in  case  of  People  vs.  Ruggles. 


LORD  KENYON, 

c\  Chief  Justice  of  England.     (1732-1802.) 

Christianity  from  its  earliest  institution  met  with 
^j  opposers.  Its  professors  were  called  upon  to  publish 
^-^  their  "apologies."  How  well  they  did  that,  and 
whether  they  had  the  advantage  of  their  adversaries^ 
mankind  for  2,000  years  has  had  an  opportunity  to  judge. 
We  have  learned  to  day  that  the  light  of  nature  and  the  works 
of  creation  are  sufficient,  without  any  other  revelation  of  the 
Divine  will,  yet  Socrates,  Tully,  Plato,  each  of  them  in  their 
turn,  wanted  other  lights,  and  confessing  that  God  was  good, 


266  A   CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES. 

they  took  it  for  granted  the  time  would  come  when  He  would 
impart  another  revelation  to  mankind.  .  .  .  Christianity 
is  a  part  of  our  law;  to  insult  its  Divine  Author  is  a  misde- 
meanor which  is  punishable.  —  Volume  IV,  ''The  Lives  of 
the  Chief  Justices  of  England,''^  by  Lord  Campbell. 


JOHANN  KEPLER, 

German  Astronomer.     (1571-1630.) 


THANK  Thee,  my  Creator  and  Lord,  that  Thou  hast. 
given  me  this  joy  in  Thy  creation,  this  delight  in  the 
works  of  Thy  hands  ;  I  have  shown  the  excellency  of 
Thy  works  unto  man,  so  far  as  my  finite  mind  was 
able  to  comprehend  Thine  infinity ;  if  I  have  said  aught  of 
Thy  glory,  graciously  forgive  it. — Conclusion  of  his  Treatise^ 
^''Harmony  of  Worlds!'^ 

O,  Almighty  God,  I  am  thinking  Thy  thoughts  after  Thee! 
Nothing  holds  me !  I  will  indulge  in  my  sacred  fury,  I  will 
triumph  over  mankind  by  the  proud  confession  that  I  have 
stolen  the  golden  vases  to  build  up  a  tabernacle  for  my  God, 
far  away  from  the  confines  of  Egypt.  If  you  forgive  me,  I 
rejoice  ;  if  you  be  angry,  I  can  bear  it.  The  die  is  cast ;  the 
book  is  written,  to  be  read  either  now  or  by  posterity,  I  care 
not  which.  It  may  be  well  to  wait  a  century  for  a  reader,  as 
God  has  waited  six  thousand  years  for  an  observer. — Biog- 
raphy 'by  Sir  David  Brewster. 

We  astronomers  say,  with  the  common  people,  the  planets 
stand  still  or  go  down ;  the  sun  rises  or  sets.  How  much 
less  should  we  require  than  the  Scriptures  of  Divine  inspira- 
tion, setting  aside  the  common  mode  of  speech,  should  shape 
their  words  according  to  the  model  of  the  natural  scientistj 
and,  by  employing  "a  dark  and  inappropriate  phraseology 
about  things  which  surpass  the  comprehension  of  those  whom 
it  designs  to  instruct,  perplex  the  people  of  God,  and  thus 
obstruct  its  own  way  towards  the  attainment  of  the  far  more 
exalted  object  at  which  it  aims. — Page  84,  ^''Homage  to  the 

Book:' 


CAPTAIN   PHI  UP   GIVES   THANKS  ON  BOARD  THi:  "  TEXAS  "  AFTER  CERVERA'S  DEFEAT, 


JOHN  W.  PHILIP, 


Rear-Admiral. 

DO  believe  in  God,  and  in  His  Son,  our  Lord  and  Sav- 
iour Jesus  Christ;  I  do  believe  that  all  Scripture  is  given 
by  Divine  inspiration. 

*'  Put  an 3'  burden  upon  me,  only  sustain  nie. 

Send  me  anywhere,  only  go  with  me. 

Sever  an^^  tie  but  this  tie  which  binds  me 

To  Thy  service  and  Thj^  heart." 


//r'jA 


Lieutenant  Pascoe  discovered  the  Admiral  on  his  knees  before  the  naval 
battle  of  Trafalgar.  This  prayer,  written  in  Lord  Nelson's  own  hand,  was  found  in 
his  journal  after  the  engagement:  "May  the  great  God  whom  I  worship,  grant  to 
my  country,  and  for  the  benefit  of  Europe  in  general,  a  glorious  victor5^  and  may  no 
misconduct  in  any  one  tarnish  it;  and  may  humanity  after  victory  be  the  predomi- 
nant spirit  of  the  British  fleet !  For  myself  individually,  I  commit  my  life  to  Him 
who  died  for  me,  and  may  His  blessings  light  upon  my  endeavors  for  serving  my 
country  faithfully.  To  Him  I  resign  myself,  and  the  just  cause  which  is  entrusted 
me  to  defend.     Amen  !    Amen  !    Amen  !  " 


Note.  -This  prayer,  offered  by  Sir  Jacob  Astley  before  the  battle  of  Edgrehill  in  1642.  is  a  model 
for  brevity :  "  Thou  knowest,  O  I,ord,  that  I  shall  be  very  busy  this  day,  and  if  I  forget  Thee,  forget 
not  Thou  me  !  " 

See  prayer  of  Lord  Roberts  Field  Marshal  of  Great  Britain,  page  379  ;  concerning  Washington 
at  Valley  Forge,  page  487;  Lincoln  before  the  battle  of  Gettysburg,  page  390;  and  Chief-Justice 
Taney  before  entering  the  Supreme  Court,  page  445. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNEvSSEvS.  267 

THOMAS   KELLY, 

Publisher;  Lord   Mayor  of  London  at  the  Accession  of  Queen  Victoria. 

(1772-1855.) 

HAVE  now  quite  done  with  the  world,  and  with 
everything  it.  contains.  I  enjoy  the  companionship 
of  the  Holy  Spirit,  and  my  Redeemer  is  ever  present 
with  me.  Sanctification  and  Redemption — what 
more  can  I  desire? — Page  16  of  his  Life^  by  James  Macaulay^ 
in  VolMtne  /F",  ''''Short  Biographies  for  the  People,'*'' 


LOUIS   KOSSUTH, 

Hungarian  Patriot.     (1802-1894.) 


CONSIDER  the  Christian  faith  the  true  source  of  the 
liberty  of  mankind.  The  great  principle  which  our 
Saviour  taught  was  that  of  equality  before  God.  He 
said  His  kingdom  was  not  of  this  world ;  that  it  was 
not  only  a  kingdom  of  salvation  but  of  freedom.  I  am  fully 
convinced  of  the  truth  that  the  first  duty  of  our  species  is  to 
bring  about  new  reforms  in  Christianity,  not  in  respect  to  its 
Divine  Doctrines,  but  in  respect  to  its  great  principle — to 
love  our  neighbor  as  ourselves. — Page  270,  ^''Life  of  Kos- 
suth,'' by  P,  C.  Headley, 


FRANCIS  SCOTT  KEY, 

Lawyer;  Poet;  Author  of  "Star-Spangled  Banner."    (1780-1843.) 


PRAISE  FOR  PARDONING  GRACE. 

)ORD,  with  glowing  heart  I'd  praise  Thee 
For  the  bliss  Thy  love  bestows ; 
^y^  For  the  pardoning  grace  that  saves  me, 
And  the  peace  that  from  it  flows. 
Help,  O  God,  my  weak  endeavor, 
This  dull  soul  to  rapture  raise ; 
Thou  must  ligbt  the  flame,  or  never 
Can  my  love  be  warmed  to  praise. 


268  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

JOHN  KIDD, 

English  Chemist,  Educator,  and  Writer.     (1775-1851.) 

ITH  respect  to  the  truth  of  RevelatioH,  the  au- 
thor would  still  wish  to  consider  himself  as  ad- 
dressing those  only,  who,  with  himself,  believe 
that  the  objects  which  surround  us  in  our  pres- 
ent state  of  existence,  and  which  are  obviously  intended  to 
advance  the  powers  and  faculties  of  man,  without  advancing 
the  powers  and  faculties  of  any  other  animal,  are  purposely 
destined  to  produce  an  ulterior  and  higher  effect;  the  na- 
ture of  which  is  to  be  learned  from  the  doctrines  of  Reve- 
lation alone.  He  has  thought  it  right  to  say  thus  much 
on  the  subject  of  religion,  not  merely  for  the  purpose  of 
recording  his  own  sentiments,  but  that  in  addressing  those 
only  who  believe  in  a  revealed,  as  well  as  a  natural,  reli- 
gion, if  anywhere  he  should  assume  the  truth  of  Reve- 
lation he  may  not  with  justice  be  accused  of  taking  for 
granted  of  which  the  reader  doubts. — Preface  to  the  Bridge- 
water   Treatise. 


HERMAN  H.  KOHLSAAT, 

Journalist ;    Publisher  of   the  Chicago  Times-Herald. 

Y  faith  in  Christ  and    the    Bible,  which    I    imbibed 

.^yj.    from    my  mother,  whose   whole    life  was    an  illus- 

^^^   tration    of   its    power,  has   been    strengthened   and 

confirmed    by  a  wide    experience    and    observation 

of  its  benign  influence  upon    the  world.     Christianity  and 

its  Book  are  the  greatest  of  all  factors  for  good.     No  other 

religion  can   show  a  record  of  benefaction  to  mankind  at 

large,  and  none  offers  such  solace  in  this  life  and  promise 

for  the  next  to  every  individual  of  the  human  race. 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES.  269 

THE  RIGHT  HONORABLE  LORD 
KINNAIRD, 

Scottish  Financier  and  Philanthropist 

AS  not  God  given  us  a  Book ;  has  He  not  deigned  to 
put  into  writing  His  thoughts  ?  .  .  .  I  think  the  pub- 
lic will  read  anything  which  is  well  got  up,  intelli 
gently  put  together,  and,  above  all,  which  contains  the 
Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ.  You  will  find  in  every  book  that  it 
(the  Tract  Society)  publishes,  the  simple  Gospel,  clearly  and 
evangelically  put,  and  in  a  way  which  can  not  but  impress 
everyone  with  the  feeling  that  he  is  being  spoken  to  by  one 
who  knows  what  he  is  writing  about ;  one  who  has  been 
saved  by  the  death  and  resurrection  of  Jesus  Christ.  Let 
us  seek,  therefore,  by  means  of  the  printing  press,  to  bring 
men  and  women  to  the  knowledge  of  our  Lord  and  Saviour 
Jesus  Christ. 


DANIEL  KIRKWOOD, 

Professor  of  Astronomy  in  Indiana  University. 

ACCEPT  Christ  as  my  Saviour  and  place  all  my  sal- 
vation in  Him.  I  accept  the  Scriptures  as  a  revelation 
of  what  man  is  to  believe  concerning  God,  and  what 
duty  God  requires  of  man. 


ELISHA  KENT  KANE, 

Arctic  Explorer.     (1820-1857.) 

GO  forth  governed  by  sound  and  thorough  moral 
principle,  and  sanctified  by  the  influences  of  the  Bible, 
which  reveals  and  offers  to  us  Jesus,  the  Christ  of  God, 
as  in  all  things  a  Saviour. — Page  231,  ^'-Turning Points 
in  Successful  Careers. ' ' 


270  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

FRIEDRICH  GOTTLIEB  KLOPSTOCK, 

German  Poet.     (1724-1803.) 

Then  will  my  guide  be  to  the  holiest  land 
My  Mediator's  hand. 
On  high  then  living, 
I'll  praise  Him  with  thanksgiving. 
Hallelujah  ! 


o^ 


COULSON  KERNAHAN, 

British  Author  and  Novelist. 


0 


UTSIDB  Christianity  I  see  no  answer  to  the  riddle  of 
life.  Take  that  away,  and  confront  me  with  the 
question,  Why  did  a  loving  Father  permit  sin  and 
suffering?  and  I  am  stricken  dumb.  But,  looking  to 
the  Cross,  I  am  confident  and  strong.  For  is  not  God  Him- 
self a  suffering  God,  who  sends  us  no  sorrows  Himself  hath 
not  undergone?  And  who  that  witnessed  the  sufferings  of 
His  Son — and  were  ever  sufferings  like  His — could  have  fore- 
seen that  the  cruel  Cross  should  hereafter  be  the  Finger-post 
to  point  the  way  to  heaven.  yf      ^ 


CHARLES  KNIGHT, 

English  Editor,  Publisher,  and  Author.     (1791-1873.) 

UT  a  vast  European  confederation,  for  obtaining  the 
freedom  of  Christian  worship  in  the  land  which  our 
Redeemer  and  His  Apostles  had  trodden,  was  an  idea 
that  seized  upon  the  minds  of  men  in  all  countries 
and  of  all  classes  with  a  force  which  those  can  not  com- 
prehend who  measure  the  character  of  a  past  age  by  the 
principles  and  feelings  of  their  own  age. 

He  (Wickliffe)  had  accomplished  a  work  which  no  ecclesi- 
astical censure  could  set  aside.  He  had  translated  the 
Scriptures  into  the  English  language.  Whenever  he  and 
his  disciples  were  assailed  by  the  higher  ecclesiastics,  he  had 
appealed  to  the  Bible.  His  translation  of  the  Bible  was  now 
multiplied  by  the  incessant  labor  of  transcribers.     The  texts 


A    CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES.  27 1 

of  the  Bible  were  in  every  mouth  as  they  were  re-echoed  in 
the  sermons  of  preachers  in  churches  and  in  open  places. 
The  poor  treasured  up  the  words  of  comfort  for  all  earthly 
afflictions.  The  rich  and  the  great  meditated  upon  the  in- 
spired sentences  which  so  clearly  pointed  out  a  more  certain 
road  to  salvation  than  could  be  found  through  indulgences 
and  pilgrimages. — -Pages  62  and  131,  ^''Pictures  from  English 
History  by  the  great  Historical  Artists y^  selected  and  edited  by 
Coleman  E,  Bishop. 


PAUL  LACROIX, 

French  Writer.     (1806-1884.) 

HE  religion  of  our  Saviour  was  alone  capable  of  re- 
sisting this  barbarian  invasion,  and  science  and  litera- 
ture, together  with  the  arts,  disappeared  from  the 
face  of  the  earth,  taking  refuge  in  the  churches.  It 
was  thence  they  emerged  when  Christianity  renovated  pagan 
society.^ '  ''Science  and  Literature  in  the  Middle  Ages, ' ' 


WILLIAM  WILLIAMS  KEEN, 

Physician  and  Surgeon ;  President,  American  Medical  Association. 

KNOW  of  no  one  who  needs  Divine  help  more  in  his 
everyday  practice  than  the  Physician.  To  ask  for  that 
guidance  is  a  daily  comfort,  and  to  receive  it  a  daily 
blessing.  Without  it  the  responsibility  of  life  and 
death  would  be  overwhelming.  The  inspired  Book  and  the 
Divine  Christ  are  our  best  reliance  in  life,  and  our  only  sup- 
port  in  death.  h^M..^  H^'Cu^ 


CHARLES  LAMB, 

English  Essayist  and  Poet,     (1775-1834.) 
FROM  "A  VISION  OF  REPENTANCE." 

EVERE  and  saintly  righteousness 
Composed  the  clear  white  bridal  dress ; 
JESUS,  the  Son  of  Heaven's  high  King, 
Bought  with  His  blood  the  marriage-ring. 


272  A   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES. 

THE  EARL  OF  LATHOM. 

HE  Bible  for  the  whole  world  1  The  words  of  our 
Master  have  been  fulfilled.  The  number  of  languages 
r^"^^  unto  which  the  Word,  and  portions  of  the  Holy  Scrip- 
tures have  been  translated,  is  about  370.  What  a 
magnificent  work  for  the  glory  of  God!  Let  us  square  onr 
faith  and  life  with  the  truth,  as  it  is  in  Jesus  Christ. — On 
Taking  the  Chair ^  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Ormskirk  Bible 
Society^  November  25,   1902. 


RICHARD   LE  GALLIENNE, 

British  Essayist. 

E  have  been  told  that  the  world  has  tried  the  Gos- 
pel of  Christ  and  found  it  wanting.  To  that  the 
answer  is  simple :  the  world  has  never  tried  the 
Gospel  of  Christ:  it  has  yet  to  begin. 
The  great  Christian  symbols  are  as  exactly  records  of  fact 
as  any  proven  scientific  proposition.  The  Dogma  of  the 
New  Birth  is  no  mere  figure  of  mysticism,  but  a  psychologi- 
cal fact  daily  illustrate*d  in  the  lives  of  thousands.  A  man 
is  a  brute  to-day,  and  to-morrow,  without  any  apparent  cause, 
he  undergoes  a  mystical  change ;  a  new  light  is  in  his  face, 
and  he  is  in  every  way  a  new  creature. — Pages  65,  76,  ^''The 
Religion  of  a  Literary  Man^^  by  Richard  Le  Gallienne, 


MELVILLE  D.  LANDON, 

Humorist,  "  Eli  Perkins." 

'KRIST  is  a  necessity.  The  highest  civilization  of  the 
learned  Stoics  was  a  failure.  Seneca,  Epictetus  and 
Aurelius  were  the  culmination  of  the  highest  moral- 
ity and  religion  without  the  love  of  Christ.  Religion 
was  only  Justice — "  an  eye  for  an  eye  and  a  tooth  for  a 
tooth"  till  Jesus  Christ  came  with  'Mo  unto  others."  Sto- 
ical philosophy  was  only  addressed  to  the  intellect,  while 
Christ  brought  peace  and  love  and  salvation  to  the.  heart 
through  His  atonement.    Seneca  was  pure  and  Aristides  was 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  273 

just  but  they  knew  not  love  and  Divine  forgiveness.  Chris- 
tianity with  its  divine  Book  has  brought  these,  and  they  are  a 
necessity. 

91 


""^(Z^L. 


CHARLES   LANMAN, 

Author. 


HO,  then,  can  for  an  instant  doubt  that  he  (Daniel 
Webster)  is  now  in  Heaven  ?  As  surely  as  there 
is  an  All-Merciful  Saviour,  he  must  be  among 
the  redeemed.  .  .  .  He  was  a  believer  in  the  great 
Atonement,  and  the  distinct  impression  left  upon  my  mind 
was,  that  if  he  were  not  a  genuine  Christian  the  promises 
of  the  Bible  were  all  a  fable  ;  and  God  knows  that  I  would 
rather  die  than,  for  a  moment,  even  imagine  such  a  state  of 
things. — From  Chapter  on  Illness  and  Death^  in  ''''Private  Life 
of  Dajtiel  Webster^'*''  by  Charles  Lanjriati^  Private  Secretary  of 
Daniel  Webster. 

DIONYSIUS  LARDNER, 

British  Astronomer.     (1793-1859.) 

^N  the  year  of  Rome  753,  while  the  world  was  enjoying 
peace  under  Augustus,  and  the  "fullness  of  time  "  was 
come,  it  pleased  the  Almighty  to  send  His  Son,  Jesus 
Christ,  as  the  announcer  of  a  religion  more  pure  and 
holy  than  any  yet  given  to  man.  His  religion  though  per- 
secuted, gradually  spread  over  the  Roman  world.  The 
Christian  religion,  as  given  to  man  by  its  divine  Author,  was 
perfect  in  truth  and  simplicity ;  but  it  was  sent  forth  into  the 
world  in  which  error  abounded,  and  the  stream  had  hardly 
left  the  fountain  when  it  became  defiled  with  mundane  im- 
purities.— Extract  from  his  ^^  Outlines  of  History.^'' 


274  ^   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

WALTER  SAVAGE  LANDOR, 

English  Author.     (1775-1864.) 

AM  heartily  glad  to  witness  your  veneration  for  a  Book 
which,  to  say  nothing  of  its  holiness  or  authority,  con- 
tains  more  specimens  of  genius  and  taste  than  any 
other  volume  in    existence. — ''''Imaginary  Conversa- 
tions^ ' '  by  Landor. 

It  would  grieve  me  to  foresee  the  day  when  our  churches 
should  be  demolished  or  desecrated ;  when  the  tones  of  the 
organ  and  the  symphonies  of  Handel  no  longer  swell  and 
reverberate  along  the  groined  roof  and  dim  windows.  But 
let  old  superstitions  crumble  into  dust ;  let  Faith,  Hope,  and 
Charity  be  simple  in  attire ;  let  few  and  solemn  words  be 
spoken  before  Him  "to  whom  all  hearts  are  open,  all  desires 
are  known."  Principalities  and  powers  belong  to  the  service 
of  the  Crucified;  but  religion  can  never  "be  of  good  report" 
among  those  who  usurp  Ox  covet  them. — Atlantic  Monthly^ 
June^  1866. 


GEORGE  PARSONS  LATHROP, 

Author,  Journalist,  Poet. 


THE  CHRISTMAS  FOREST. 

(The  region  between  Jerusalem  and  Bethlehem  was  formerly  covered 
with  a  forest  of  pines,  which  has  since  entirely  disappeared.) 

HE  angels  sang ;  the  shepherds  came ; 
In  the  lone  manger  shone  a  flame 
That  burned  with  supernatural  light. 
The  pine  trees  whispered  through  the  night, 

And  though  our  Saviour's  birth 
Changed  not  their  shadowy  gloom  to  white, 
They  in  a  patient  darkness  still 
Bowed,  sighing,  and  obeyed  His  will. 


Sir  James  Paget,  First  Baron ;  President  College  of  Sur- 
geons: I  can  not  imagine  anything  before  natural  force 
except  Supernatural  Will.  Time — or,  if  not  time.  Eternity 
— will  prove  that  Science  and  Christian  Theology  are  but  two 
sides  of  truth. — Hunterian  Oration  ^1877. 


A   CIvOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  275 

SIR  HENRY  MONTGOMERY  LAWRENCE, 

Late  Provisional  Governor-General  of  India.     (1806-1857.) 

LORD,  give  me  grace  and  strength  to  do  Thy  will, 
to  begin  the  day  and  end  it  with  prayer  and  search- 
ing of  heart,  with  reading  of  Thy  Word.  Make  nie 
to  understand  it,  to  bring  home  to  my  soul  the  realit\ 
of  Thy  perfect  Godhead  and  perfect  humanity;  above  all,  my 
entire  need  of  a  Saviour,  of  my  utter  inability  to  do  aught  in 
my  own  strength. — Page  61,  '"''Twelve  Indian  Statesmen^^'* 
by  George  Smith. 


ABBOTT  LAWRENCE. 

Merchant  and  Diplomat.     (1792-1855.) 

HE  Hon.  Abbott  Lawrence,  at  that  time  Minister  of 
the  United  States  at  the  Court  of  St.  James,  in  the 
delivery  of  an  eloquent  address,  declared  that  "Eng- 
land and  America,  the  two  greatest  Protestant  na- 
tions, banded  together,  might  defy  the  world."  Pausing  for 
a  moment,  the  speaker  continued,  "I  must  withdraw  that 
word  '  defy.'  There  is  no  occasion  for  defiance.  Let  us 
rather  as  Christian  nations,  united  in  our  love  for  the  Bible, 
go  forth  to  bless  and  save  the  world." — Monthly  Reporter  of 
the  British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society^  June ^  1886. 


AMOS  LAWRENCE. 

Merchant  and  Philanthropist.     (1786-1852.) 

\!>7\^TTENDED  ...  Church  this  morning,  and  took 
Ll^^  part  in  the  closing  prayer,  the  giving  thanks  to  our 
<^  (y^  Father  in  heaven,  through  Jesus  Christ,  who  lived 

to  serve  us,  and  died  to  save  us. 
What  should  we  do  if  the  Bible  were  not  the  foundation  of 


276  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

our  system  of  self-government  ?  and  what  will  become  of  us 
when  we  willfully  and  wickedly  neglect  it?  We  have  more 
than  common  reason  to  pray  in  the  depths  of  our  sins,  God 
be  merciful  to  us  sinners.  The  efforts  made  to  lessen  re- 
spect for  it,  and  confidence  in  it,  will  bring  to  its  rescue 
multitudes  who  would  not  have  learned  otherwise  how  much 
they  owe  it.  .  .  .  The  Bible  is  our  great  charter,  and 
does  more  than  all  others  written  or  unwritten. — Biography 
of  Amos  Lawre7ice^  by  William  R.  Lawrence, 


LORD  JOHN  MAIR  LAWRENCE, 

Viceroy  of  India.     ( 1811-1879.) 

^T  seems  to  me  that  year  after  year,  and  cycle  after 
cycle,  the  influence  of  these  missionaries  must  in- 
crease, and  that  in  God's  good  will  large  masses  of  the 
people,  having  lost  all  faith  in  their  own,  and  feeling 
the  want  of  a  religion  which  is  pure,  true,  and  holy,  will  be 
converted,  and  will  confess  the  religion  of  Christ,  and,  having 
professed  it,  live  in  accordance  with  its  Divine  precepts. — 
See  Sketch  of  his  Life  by  E.  Paxton  Hood^  Volume  11^  ^^ Short 
Biographies  for  the  People!''' 


SIR  AUSTIN  HENRY  LAYARD, 

_  English  Orientalist,  Archaeologist,  and  Diplomat. 

J^^  (1817-1894.) 

^7Uj>RCH^0L0GY,  if  pursued  in  a  liberal  spirit,  be- 
\[c\    comes  of  the  utmost  importance  as  illustrating  the 
^  (o)^  history  of  mankind.     I  confess  that,  sanguine  as  I 
was  to  the  results  of  my  researches  among  the  ruins 
of  the  Tigris  and  the  Euphrates,  I  could  not,  indeed,  proba- 
bly could  any  human  being,  have  anticipated  the  results 
which  they  produced.     I   do  not  say  this  in  self-praise.     I 
consider  myself  but  an  humble   agent,  whose  good  fortune 
it  has  been  to  labor  successfully  about  those  results.     I  could 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  277 

not  doubt  that  every  spadeful  of  earth  which  was  removed 
from  those  vast  remains  would  tend  to  confirm  the  truth  of 
Prophecy  and  to  illustrate  the  meaning  of  Scripture.  But 
who  could  have  believed  that  record  themselves  should  have 
been  found  which,  as  to  the  minuteness  of  their  detail,  and 
the  wonderful  accuracy  of  their  statements,  should  confirm 
almost  word  for  word  the  very  text  of  Scripture?  And  re- 
member, that  these  were  no  fabrications  of  a  later  date  in 
monuments  centuries  after  the  deeds  which  they  professed 
to  relate  had  taken  place,  but  records  engraved  by  those  who 
had  actually  taken  part  in  them. — From  his  Speech  on  the 
occasio7i  of  the  presentation  to  Doctor  Layard  the  freedom  of 
the  city  of  London^  February  9,  1854. 


WILLIAM  EDWARD  HARTPOLE  LECKY, 

British  Historian  and  Author. 

'T  was  reserved  for  Christianity  to  present  to  the  world 
an  ideal  Character,  which,  through  all  the  changes  of 
the  eighteen  centuries,  has  inspired  the  hearts  of  men 
with  impassioned  love,  and  has  shown  itself  capable 
Df  acting  on  all  ages,  nations,  temperaments,  and  conditions; 
has  not  only  been  the  highest  pattern  of  virtue,  but  the 
highest  incentive  to  its  practice,  and  has  exerted  so  deep  an 
influence  that  it  may  be  truly  said  that  the  simple  record  of 
three  short  years  of  active  life  has  done  more  to  regenerate 
and  soften  mankind  than  all  the  disquisitions  of  philoso- 
phers and  all  the  exhortations  of  moralists.  This  has,  in- 
deed, been  the  well-spring  of  whatever  is  best  and  purest  in 
the  Christian  life.  Amid  all  the  sins  and  failings;  amid  all 
the  priestcraft  and  fanaticism  that  have  defaced  the  Church, 
it  has  preserved  in  the  character  of  its  Founder  an  enduring 
principle  of  regeneration.  .  .  .  The  power  of  the  love 
of  Christ  has  been  displayed  alike  in  the  most  heroic  pages 
of  Christian  martyrdom,  in  the  most  pathetic  pages  of  Chris- 
tian  resignation,  and   in   the   tenderest  pages  of  Christian 


278  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

charity.  It  was  shown  by  the  martyrs  who  sank  beneath 
the  fangs  of  wild  beasts,  extending  to  the  last  moments  their 
arms  in  the  form  of  the  cross  they  loved ;  who  ordered  their 
chains  buried  as  the  insignia  of  their  warfare ;  who  looked 
with  joy  upon  their  ghastly  wounds  because  they  have  been 
received  for  Christ ;  who  welcomed  death  as  the  bridegroom 
welcomes  the  bride,  because  it  would  bring  them  nearer  Him. 
— ^^ History  of  Morality ^^^  Volume  II ^  page  88. 


JOSEPH  LECONTE, 

Geologist  and  Author;    Professor  of  Geology  and  Natural  History  in  the 
University  of  California. 

<HE  Christ  is  the  ideal  man,  and,  therefore — mark  the 
necessary  implication — and,  therefore,  the  Divine  man. 
We  are  all  men  (as  contradistinguished  from  brutes) — 
we  are  all^  I  say,  sons  of  God ;  the  Christ  is  the  well- 
beloved  Son.  We  are  all  in  the  image  of  God ;  He  is  the  ex- 
press and  perfect  image.  We  are  all  partakers  in  various 
degrees  of  the  Divine  nature ;  in  Him  the  Divine  nature  is 
completely  realized. 


BENSON  JOHN  LOSSING, 

Historian,  Author  and  Engraver.     (1813-1891.) 

ARTH  hath  its  angels  bright  and  lovely.  Their  hope 
'  is  a  golden  chain  of  promises  from  the  throne  of  the 
infinite  one;  their  example  is  a  preacher  of  righteous- 
ness co-working  with  the  great  Redeemer. 
Paine  fell  low  in  the  social  scale,  not  only  because  of  his 
beastly  and  intemperate  habits,  but  because  of  his  blasphe- 
mous tirade  against  Christianity.  His  Age  of  Reason  was  a 
coarse  and  vindictive  assault  on  revealed  religion,  exhibiting 
neither  sound  logic  nor  honest  argument. — Pages  332,  329, 
^'^  Eminent  Americans  ^'''^  by  Benson  J,  Lossing, 


A   CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES.  279 

ROBERT  EDWARD  LEE,*  ^ 

Confederate  General-in-Chief;  President  of  Washington  and  Lee 
University.     (1807-1870.) 

SINCERELY  thank  you  for  your  interest.     I  can  only 

say  that  I   am  a  poor  sinner,   trusting  in  the  merits 

of  Christ  alone,  and  that   I   need  all  the  prayers  you 

can  offer  for  me. 

Soldiers!  Let  us  humble   ourselves  before  the   Lord  our 

God,  asking,   through  Jesus  Christ,   the  forgiveness  of  our 

sins,  beseeching  the  aid  of  the  God  of  our  forefathers  for  the 

defense  of  our  homes  and  our  liberties. 

I  would  suggest  some  plan,  in  addition  to  the  abundant 
distribution  of  the  Holy  Scriptures,  to  cause  the  mass  of  peo- 
ple to  meditate  on  their  Divine  truths,  and  in  the  language 
of  Wilberforce,  "to  read  the  Bible,  read  the  Bible,"  so  as  to 
become  acquainted  with  the  promises  and  realities  of  our  re- 
ligion.—  Pages  416,  425,  431,  ''Personal  Reminiscences  of 
Robert  E.  Lee^^^  by  John  W.  Jones. 


RICHARD  HENRY  LEE, 

Orator,  Statesman,  and  Patriot.     (1732-1794.) 

COMMITTEE  of  three  consisting  of  Richard  Henry 
Lee,  Samuel  Adams,  and  General  Daniel  Rober- 
deau,  reported  in  the  Congress  of  the  Revolution, 
November  i,  1777,  this  resolution,  recommending 
the  setting  apart  of  "  Thursday,  the  i8th  of  December  next, 
for  solemn  thanksgiving  and  praise,  that  with  one  heart  and 
one  voice  the  good  people  may  express  the  grateful  feelings 

*  After  his  death  a  well-worn  Bible  was  found  in  his  chamber,  in  which 
was  written  "  R.  E.  Ivee,  Ivieut.  Colonel,  U.  S.  Army. 

tl  should  be  disappointed,  sir,  and  shall  fail  in  the  leading  object  which 
brought  me  here,  unless  these  young  men  become  Christians.  Our  great 
want  is  a  revival  which  shall  bring  these  youth  to  Christ. — Declared  while 
President  of  Washington  and  Lee  University.  "  Life  of  General  Lee,''  by 
John  Esten  Cooke. 


28o  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

of  their  hearts,  and  consecrate  themselves  to  the  service  of 
their  Divine  Benefactor ;  and  that,  together  with  their  sin- 
cere acknowledgments  and  offerings,  they  may  join  the  pen- 
itent confession  of  their  manifold  sins,  whereby  they  had  for- 
feited every  favor,  and  their  humble  and  earnest  supplication 
that  it  may  please  God,  through  the  merits  of  Jesus  Christ, 
mercifully  to  forgive  and  blot  them  out  of  remembrance." — 
Journal  of  Congress^  Volume  I II ^  pages  467  and  468. 


GOTTFRIED  WILLIAM  LEIBNITZ, 

German  Philosopher  and  Mathematician.     (1646-1716.) 

'HE  true  and  essential  union  which  unites  us  to  the 
body  of  Christ  consists  in  love. 

I  hold  to  the  Augsburg  Confession,  which  supposes 
a  real  presence  of  the  body  of  Christ  and  beholds  in 
the  sacrament  something  mysterious. 

I  often  think  that  Ezekiel  had  studied  the  art  of  archi- 
tecture, or  was  court  engineer,  because  he  saw  in  his  vision 
such  magnificent  edifices.  But  a  prophet  in  the  country  like 
Amos,  beholds  only  landscapes  or  rural  pictures,  while  the 
statesman  Daniel  gives  rules  in  his  visions  to  the  mon- 
archs'  of  the  world.  This  woman  whom  your  Highness 
has  seen,  may  not  be  compared  with  prophets  like  these; 
however,  she  sees  Jesus  Christ  before  her  eyes.  The  burn- 
ing love  which,  fanned  by  the  hearing  of  sermons,  and 
by  private  reading,  she  bears  to  our  Saviour,  has  at  length 
obtained  for  her  the  gracious  gift  of  beholding  His  image  or 
appearance.  For  why  should  I  not  call  it- a  gift  of  grace. 
It  does  her  good,  it  renders  her  happy,  it  makes  her  the  subject 
of  most  beautiful  sentiments.— /^^^^i-  163  and  166,  ^''Life  of 
Godfried  William  Leibnitz^  on  the  Basis  of  the  German  Work 
by  Dr.  G.  E.  Gurhrauer^''  by  John  Mac  key. 


Last  words  of  Beethoven,  who  was  deaf:  ''  1  shall  hear  in 
Heaven." 


A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES.  281 

FRANCOIS  LENORMANT. 

O.  French  Archaeologist.     (1835-1883.) 

C  PROFOUNDLY  convinced  of  the  truth  of  all  that  my 
^  ^^  religion  teaches,  I  respect  the  Holy  Scriptures.  I 
bow  to  their  authority,  and  I  believe  in  the  Divine 
inspiration  which  dictated  them.  But  many  things 
which  do  not  belong  to  them  are  attributed  by  commentators 
to  the  Scriptures,  and  chronology  is  one  of  them.  .  .  .  One 
of  the  most  learned  men  of  the  present  century,  and  at  the 
same  time  a  sincere  Christian,  Baron  de  Sacy,  used  to  say: 
"People  perplex  their  minds  about  Biblical  chronology  and 
the  discrepancy  between  it  and  the  discoveries  of  modern 
science.  They  are  greatly  in  error,  for  there  is  no  Biblical 
chronology."  For  chronology  can  only  exist  when  the  neces- 
sary elements  occur;  when  we  are  in  possession  of  records 
which  control  the  accuracy  of  figures  transmitted  by  the 
chroniclers,  and,  above  all,  when  we  know  the  measure  of 
time  in  use  among  the  people  whose  annals  we  seek  to 
reconstruct.  It  is  no  use,  therefore,  to  seek  in  Scripture  that 
which  they  can  not  contain — a  fixed  and  certain  chronology. 
—''DEgypte,  '61." 


GOTTHOLD  EPHRAIM  LESSING. 

German  Author.    (1729-1781.) 

HIS  much,  at  least,  is  a  matter  of  experience:  that  the 
books  of  the  New  Testament,  in  which  these  doc- 
trines after  some  time  found  a  repository,  have  fur- 
nished, and  still  furnish,  the  second  better  elementary 
Book  for  the  human  race.  For  seventeen  hundred  years  they 
occupied  the  human  mind  more  than  all  other  books.  No 
other  Book  could  possibly  have  become  so  generally  known 
among  different  nations. 

And  so  Christ  was  the  first  reliable  Teacher  of  the  immor- 


282  A  CIvOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

tality  of  the  soul;  reliable,  on  account  of  the  prophecies 
which  were  fulfilled  in  Him;  on  account  of  the  miracles 
which  He  performed;  reliable,  on  account  of  His  own  resur- 
rection from  the  dead,  with  which  He  sealed  His  own  doc- 
trines. The  first  reliable  Teacher:  For  to  suppose,  to  wish, 
to  believe,  is  one  thing;  to  qonform  one's  inward  and  out- 
ward life  is  another  thing.  And  this,  at  least,  was  first  taught 
by  Christ.  ...  It  was  reserved  for  Him  alone  to  enforce 
purity  of  heart  in  reference  to  another  life. — Pages  54,  51, 
mtd  49,  ^''The  Education  of  the  Race^^^  by  G.  E.  Lessing, 


V 


JOSHUA  LEVERING, 

Financier  and  Manufacturer. 

^^^y  ESUS  CHRIST,  by  reason  of  His  exalted  character 
\^  and  blameless  life,  is  and  ever  will  remain  the  central 
%  figure  in  human  history.  His  life,  if  nothing  else, 
justifies  humanity  in  recognizing  His  divine  nature, 
and  warrants  the  acceptance  of  Him  as  the  Saviour  of  the 
world. 

But  in  addition  thereto  we  have  the  Bible  testifying  to  the 
same  great  truth.  Christ  is  thus  the  fulfillment  of  the  Scrip- 
ture, and  the  Scriptures  themselves  are  proven  to  be  the  in- 
spired Word  of  God  by  the  life  and  death  of  Christ.  Jesus 
Christ  and  the  Book  are,  therefore,  one  and  inseparable,  and 
must  stand  or  fall  together. 


Come,  all  the  faithful  bless; 
Let  all  who  Christ  confess 

His  praise  employ. 
Give  virtue's  rich  reward; 
Victorious  death  accord, 
And  with  our  glorious  Lord, 

Eternal  joy. 

Robert  11.^  King  of  France. 


NINETEENTH    CENTURY    MILITARY   LEADERS, 


Napoleon  Bonaparte,  Duke  of  Wellington, 

Page  38.  Page  S24. 

Ulysses  S.  Grant,  Robert  E.  Lee,  Lord  Wolseley, 

Page  195.  Page  2  79.  Page  517. 

Prince  Bismarck.  Count  Von  Moltke, 

Page  32.  Page  321. 


RUDYARD  KIPLING, 

British   Novelist. 

RECESSIONAL. 

JUBILEE    HYMN   ON    QUEEN   VICTORIA'S    REIGN. 

[E  careful  lest  thou  forget  the  Lord  thy  God  .  .  .  and  say  in  thine 
heart,  my  power  and  the  might  of  mine  hand  hath  gotten  me  this 
wealth.  But  thou  shalt  remember  the  Lord  thy  God ;  for  it  is 
He  that  giveth  thee  power  to  get  wealth,  that  He  may  establish  His 
covenant  which  He  swear  unto  thy  fathers,  as  it  is  this  day. — Deuteron- 
omy 8 :  II,  17,  18. 

God  of  our  fathers,  known  of  old — 

Lord  of  our  far-flung  battle-line — 
Beneath  whose  awful  hand  we  hold 

Dominion  over  palm  and- pine — 
Lord  God  of  Hosts,  be  with  us  yet, 
Lest  we  forget — lest  we  forget ! 

The  tumult  and  the  shouting  dies; 

The  captains  and  the  kings  depart; 
Still  stands  thine  ancient  Sacrifice, 

An  humble  and  a  contrite  heart. 
Lord  God  of  Hosts,  be  with  us  yet, 
Lest  we  forget — lest  we  forget ! 

Far  called,  our  navies  melt  away — 
On  dune  and  headland  sinks  the  fire- 

Lo,  all  our  pomp  of  yesterday 
Is  one  with  Nineveh  and  Tyre  ! 

Judge  of  the  Nations,  spare  us  yet. 

Lest  we  forget — lest  we  forget ! 

If,  drunk  with  sight  of  power,  we  loose 

Wild  tongues  that  have  not  Thee  in  awe — 

Such  boasting  as  the  Gentiles  use. 
Or  lesser  breeds  without  the  Law — 

Lord  God  of  Hosts,  be  with  us  yet. 

Lest  we  forget — lest  we  forget ! 

For  heathen  heart  that  puts  her  trust 

In  reeking  tube  and  iron  shard — 
All  valiant  dust  that  builds  on  dust 

And  guarding  calls  not  Thee  to  guard — 
For  frantic  boast  and  foolish  word. 
Thy  mercy  on  thy  people,  Lord  !      Amrn. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  283 

TAYLER  LEWIS, 

Author,  and  Professor  of  Greek  in  Union  College 

(1849-1877).     (1802-1877.) 

NOTHER  striking  trait  of  the  Mosaic  cosmogony  is 
its  unbroken  wholeness  of  unity.  .  .  .  *'  In  the  be- 
ginning God  made  the  heavens  and  the  earth,  and 
the  earth  was  waste  and  void,  and  darkness  was 
upon  the  face  of  the  deep.  And  the  Spirit  of  God  brooded 
over  the  waters.  And  God  said,  let  there  be  light,  and  there 
was  light.  And  God  saw  that  it  was  good,  and  God  divided 
the  light  from  the  darkness.  And  thus  there  was  an  evening 
and  a  morning — one  day."  What  is  there  like  it,  or  to  be 
at  all  compared  with  it,  in  any  mythology  on  earth?  There 
it  stands,  high  above  them  all,  and  remote  over  them  all,  in 
its  air  of  great  antiquity,  in  its  unaccountableness,  in  its  se- 
rene truthfulness,  in  its  unapproachable  sublimity,  in  that 
impress  of  Divine  majesty  and  ineffable  holiness  which  even 
the  unbelieving  neologist  has  been  compelled  to  acknowledge, 
and  by  which  every  devout  reader  feels  that  the  first  page  of 
Genesis  is  forever  distinguished  from  any  mere  human  pro- 
duction.— ^^The  Six  Days  of  Creation^'*''  by   Tayler  Lewis, 


FRANCIS  LIEBER. 

Publicist ;  Professor  of  Political   Science  in  Columbia  College  Law  School 
(1860-1872).     (1800-1872,) 

^HESE  earlier  notions  were  preserved  pure,  and  gradu- 
ally enlarged  during  the  Mosaic  period  by  succes- 
sive revelations  to  chosen  individuals,  with  whom  the 
Bible  makes  us  acquainted  under  the  name  of  Proph- 
ets, from  Moses  to  Malachi.  God  finally  completed  His 
revelations  through  Christ. — Page  2,  "  Encyclopcsdia  Ajueri- 
cana^^  Volume  XI ^  edited  by  Francis  Lieber. 

Christianity,  considered  purely  as  a  branch  of  knowledge, 
constitutes  an  indispensable  element  of  liberal  education, 
because  Christianity,  taken  solely  as  a  historical  fact,  is  in- 


284  A  CIvOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

comparably  the  mightiest  of  all  facts  in  the  annals  of  human 
society.  It  has  so  tinctured  and  penetrated  all  systems  of 
knowledge,  both  civil  and  exclusively  social,  the  laws,  lan- 
guages, and  literature  of  the  civilized  world ;  their  ethics, 
rights,  tastes,  and  wants,  that  without  a  historical  and  philo- 
sophical acquaintance  with  Christianity  it  is  impossible  to 
understand  any  of  them.  There  is  not  the  historian  in  ex- 
istence, whatever  view  of  religion  itself  he  may  take,  who 
denies  that  Christianity  is  the  foundation  of  the  whole  of 
modern  history,  that  is,  the  history  since  the  downfall  of  the 
Western  Empires.  .  .  .  The  Christian  religion  is  inter- 
woven with  the  institutions  which  surround  us  and  in  whicK 
we  have  our  social  being.  The  Christian  religion  has  found 
its  way  into  a  thousand  laws,  and  has  generated  a  thousand 
others. — Pages  525,  526,  529,  Volume  11^  of  ^'  Contribution 
to  Political  Science ^^  by  Francis  Lieber. 


CARL  LINNEAUS, 

Swedish  Botanist.     ( 1707-1778.) 


^N  all  his  writings  there  appeared  a  deep  feeling  of  rev- 
erence and  gratitude  towards  the  Supreme  Being;  and 
in  the  history  of  his  life  we  find  nothing  which  could 
lead  us  to  suppose  that  such  feelings  were  assumed 
for  the  occasion.  Over  the  door  of  his  room  were  inscribed: 
^'•Innocui  vivite^  Numen  adest — I^ive  in  innocence,  for  God  is 
present."  His  more  important  works  he  commences  and 
ends  with  some  passage  of  Scripture,  expressive  of  the  pow- 
er, the  glory,  the  beneficence  of  God,  the  Creator,  the  Pre- 
server of  all  things. — ^^ Lives  of  Eminent  Zoologists ^^^  by  W, 
Macgillvrey. 

Lord  Lamington,  Governor  of  Queensland:  Send  the 
Word  of  God  to  isolated  places!  Enlarge  and  advance  its 
operation  for  wider  distribution!  This  is  tlie  very  ground- 
work of  our  Christian  faith. — "  The  Bible  Society  Reporter ^^'^ 
November^  1896. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


285 


ABRAHAM  LINCOLN,* 

Sixteenth  President  of  the  United  States.     (1809-1865.) 

T  is  said  in  one  of 
the  admonitions  of 
our  Lord,  "As  your 
Father  in  Heaven 
is  perfect,  be  ye  also  per- 
fect."     The    Saviour,   I 
suppose,  did  not  expect 
that    any   human   being 
could  be  perfect  as  the 
Father  in  Heaven;   but 
He  said,  "As  your  Father 
in  Heaven  is  perfect,  be 
ye  also  perfect."    He  set 
that  up  as  a  standard,  and 
He  who  did  most  toward 
reaching    that    standard 
attained  the  highest  de- 
gree of  moral  perfection. 
— From  a  speech  m  Chicago^  July  10,  1858.     See  ''''The  Lin- 
coln Memorial  Albtcm  of  Immortelles^'^''  collected  mid  edited 
by  Osborjt  H.  Oldroyd. 

In  regard  to  this  great  Book,  I  have  only  to  say  that  it  is 
the  best  gift  God  ever  gave  to  man.  All  the  good  from  the 
Saviour  of  the  world  is  communicated  through  this  Book. 
But  for  this  Book  we  could  not  know  right  from  wrong.  All 
those  things  desirable  for  man  are  contained  in  it. — In  Ac- 
knowledgment of  an  elegant  Bible^  presented  by  a  Committee 
of  Colored  People  from  Baltimore.  See  Washington  Chron- 
icle^ September  5,  \%(y\^  giving  a  full  report  of  the  Address. 

*  Throughout  the  whole  period  of  the  war  he  (Mr.  Lincoln)  constantly 
directed  the  attention  of  the  nation  to  dependence  on  God.  It  may,  in- 
deed, be  doubted  whether  he  omitted  this  in  a  single  state  paper. — Page 
549,  Volume  /,  ''Twenty  Years  of  Congress,''  by  James  G.  Blaine. 


286  A   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES.  • 

I  have  read  upon  my  knees  the  story  of  Gethsemane,  where 
the  Son  of  God  prayed  in  vain  that  the  cup  of  bitterness 
might  pass  from  Him.  I  am  in  the  garden  of  Gethsemane 
now,  and  my  cup  of  bitterness  is  full  and  overflowing. — In 
Conversation  with  Judge  Gillespie  at  Sprhigfield^  Illinois  ;  see 
"  The  Latter  Life  of  Lincoln^'' ^  by  Ida  M.  Tar  be  11^  McClure^s 
Magazine,  December^  1898. 

I  know  there  is  a  God,  and  that  He  hates  injustice  and 
slavery.  I  see  the  storm  coming.  If  He  has  a  place  and 
work  for  me,  and  I  think  He  has,  I  believe  I  am  ready.  I 
know  that  I  am  right,  for  liberty  is  right,  for  Christ  teaches 
it,  and  Christ  is  God.  I  have  said  that  a  house  divided 
against  itself  can  not  stand ;  Christ  and  reason  say  the  same. 
— In  Conversation  with  Newton  Batenian^  Superintendent  of 
Public  htstruction  of  Illinois^  at  the  time  of  Mr.  Lincohi's 
first  Nominatio7t.  Page  193,  '"''The  Inner  Life  of  Abraham 
Liitcobi^ "   by  F.  B.  Carpenter. 

The  character  of  the  Bible  is  easily  established,  at  least  to 
my  satisfaction.  We  have  to  believe  many  things  which  we 
do  not  comprehend.  The  Bible  is  the  only  history  that 
claims  to  be  God's  Book — to  comprise  His  laws,  His  history. 
It  contains  an  immense  amount  of  evidence  as  to  its  authen- 
ticity. .  .  .  Now  let  us  treat  the  Bible  fairly.  If  we 
had  a  witness  on  the  stand  whose  general  story  was  true,  we 
would  believe  him  even  when  he  asserted  the  facts  of  which 
we  have  no  other  evidence.  We  ought  to  treat  the  Bible 
with  equal  fairness.  I  decided  long  ago  that  it  was  less 
difficult  to  believe  that  the  Bible  was  what  it  claimed  to  be 
than  to  disbelieve  it. — Pages  450,  451,  ^^Recollections  of  Pres- 
ident Liftcoln^  and  his  Administration^''''  by  L.  E.  Chittenden^ 
his  Register  of  the  Treasury. 


FRANZ  LISZT, 

Hungarian  Pianist  and  Composer.     (1811-1886.) 

N  Spite  of  all  my  errors  and  entanglements  for  which  I 
felt  the  deepest  contrition,  the  Divine  Light  of  the 
Cross  was  not  withdrawn  from  me. 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES.  287 

Come  back  to  the  faith;  it  gives  such  x^appiness;  it  is 
the  only,  the  true,  the  eternah  However  bitterly  you  may 
scorn  the  feeling,  I  can  not  help  recognizing  in  it  the  way  of 
salvation.  I  can  not  help  yearning  for  it,  and  choosing  it. 
—  To  a  frieitd, — See  Chapter  on  Franz  Liszt^  ''A  Score  of 
Famous  Cofnposers^ ' '  by  Nathan  Haskell  Dole. 


DAVID  LIVINGSTONE, 

^  ^  Scottish  Physician  and  Explorer  in  Africa.     (1813-1873.) 

REx\T  pains  had  been  taken  by  my  parents  to  instil 
the  doctrines  of  Christianity  into  my  mind,  and  I  had 
no  difficulty  in  understanding  the  theory  of  free  sal- 
vation by  the  atonement  of  our  Savior ;  but  it  was 
only  about  this  time  that  I  really  began  to  feel  the  necessity 
and  value  of  a  personal  application  of  the  provisions  of  the 
atonement  to  my  own  case.  The  change  was  like  that  of 
"  colorblindness."  The  perfect  fullness  with  which  the  par- 
don of  all  our  guilt  is  offered  in  God's  Book  drew  forth  feel- 
ings of  affectionate  love  to  Him  who  bought  us  with  His 
blood,  and  a  sense  of  deep  obligation  to  Him  for  His  mercy 
has  influenced,  in  some  small  measure,  my  conduct  ever 
since.  This  book  will  speak,  not  so  much  of  what  has  been 
done,  as  of  what  remains  to  be  performed  before  the  Gospel 
can  be  said  to  be  preached  to  all  nations.  In  the  glow  of 
love  which  Christianity  inspires  I  soon  resolved  to  devote  my 
life  to  the  alleviation  of  human  misery. — Page  a^^  ''^Missionary 
Travels  and  Researches  in  South  Africa^^^  by  David  Living- 
stone. 


WILLIAM  LIVINGSTON. 

Lawyer;   First  Governor  of  New  Jersey.    (1776-1790.J 
(1723-1790.) 

'F  the  history  (New  Testament)  be  not  true,  then  all 
the  whole  laws  of  nature  were  changed  ;  all  the  motives 
and  incentives  to  human  actions  that  ever  had  obtained 
in  this  world  have  been  entirely  inverted  ;  the  wicked- 


288  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

est  men  in  the  world  have  taken  the  greatest  pains  and  en- 
dured the  greatest  hardship  and  misery  to  invent,  practice, 
and  propagate  the  most  holy  religion  that  ever  was. — See 
Livingston's  Familiar  Letters  to  a  Gentleman^  upon  a  variety 
of  seasonable  and  important  Subjects  in  Religion. 

I  believe  the  Scriptures  of  the  Old  and  New  Testaments, 
without  any  foreign  comments  or  human  explanations.  .  . 
I  believe  that  he  who  feareth  God  and  worketh  righteousness 
will  be  accepted  of  Him.  ...  I  believe  that  the  virulence 
of  some  .  .  .  proceeds  not  from  their  affection  to  Chris- 
tianity, which  is  founded  on  too  firm  a  basis  to  be  shaken  by 
the  freest  inquiry,  and  the  Divine  authority  of  which  I  sin- 
cerely believe  without  receiving  a  farthing  for  saying  so. — 
No.  46,  "  The  Independent  Reflector ^^^  as  reprinted  by  Theo- 
dore Sedgwick^  Jr. ^  in  ''''Life  and  Letters  of  William  Livings- 
ton.'' 

JOHN  WIMBURN  LAURIE, 

British  Lieutenant-General ;    Member  of  Parliament;    Past  Grand 
Master  Freemasons  of  Nova  Scotia, 

|UTY,  engraved   into  the  very  nature  of  the  British 
people,  is  the  direct  outcome  of  the  teaching  of  the 
inspired  Bible,  and  the  example  of  our  Divine  Sav- 
iour, though  in    many  cases  those  thus  influenced 
may  not  be  aware  of  it. 

JAMES  LOGAN, 

Private  Secretary  of  William  Penn,  and  Chief-Justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  Pennsylvania.      (1674-1751) 

'EMBMBER  thou  art  by  profession  a  Christian; 
that  is,  one  who  art  called  after  the  immaculate 
Lamb  of  God,  who,  by  offering  Himself  a  sacrifice 
for  thee,  atoned  for  thy  sins.  .  .  .  Rouse  with  the 
more  simple  servants  of  nature,  and  borrowing  one  hour  from 
the  sleep  of  sluggards,  spend   it  in  thy  chamber  in  dressing 


A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES.  289 

thy  soul  with  prayer  and  meditation,  reading  the  Scriptures. 
.  .  .  Remember  that  the  same  enemy  that  caused  thy  first 
parents  to  forfeit  their  blessed  condition,  notwithstanding 
the  gate  is  now  open  for  restoration,  is  perpetually  using  his 
whole  endeavors  to  prevent  thee  from  attaining  this,  and 
frustrate  to  thee  the  passion  of  thy  Redeemer. — ''''Memoirs  of 
James  Logan^''  by  Wilson  Arms  lead. 


JOHN  LOCKE, 

English  Philosopher.     (1632-1704.) 

E  that  shall  collect  all  the 
moral  rules  of  the  philos- 
ophers and  compare  them 
with  those  contained  in  the 
New  Testament  will  find  them  to 
come  short  of  the  morality  deliv- 
ered by  our  Saviour  and  taught  by 
His  disciples:  a  college  made  up 
of  ignorant  but  inspired  fisher- 
men. .  .  .  Such  a  law  of  morality 
Jesus  Christ  has  given  in  the  New 

Testament,  but  by  the  latter  of  these  ways,  by  revelation,  we 
have  from  Him  a  full  and  sufficient  rule  for  our  direction, 
and  conformable  to  that  of  reason.  But  the  worth  and  obli- 
gation of  its  precepts  have  their  force,  and  are  past  doubt  to 
us,  by  the  evidence  of  His  mission.  He  was  sent  by  God: 
His  miracles  show  it ;  and  the  authority  of  God  in  His  pre- 
cepts can  not  be  questioned.  His  morality  has  a  sure  stand- 
ard, that  revelation  vouches,  and  reason  can  not  gainsay  nor 
question ;  but  both  together  witness  to  come  from  God,  the 
great  Lawgiver.  And  such  a  one  as  this,  out  of  the  New 
Testament,  I  think,  they  would  never  find,  nor  can  anyone 
say  is  anywhere  else  to  be  found.  .  .  .  To  one  who  is  per- 
suaded that  Jesus  Christ  was  sent  by  God  to  be  a  King  and 
a  Saviour  to  those  who  believe  in  Him,  all  His  commands 


290  A  CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

become  principles ;  there  needs  no  other  proof  for  the  truth 
of  what  He  says,  but  that  He  said  it;  and  then  there  needs 
no  more  but  to  read  the  inspired  books  to  be  instructed. — 
From  ^^  The  Reasonableness  of  Christianity ^^^  by  John  Locke. 


JOHN  ALEXANDER  LOGAN,* 

Major-General ;    United  States  Senator.     (1826-1886.) 

I UT  the  beautiful  ceremonies  of  love  and  remembrance, 
now  so  universally  performed  with  flowers,  came  to 
the  fullest  expansion  through  the  growth  of  the 
Christian  religion.  Branches  of  palms  were  thrown 
in  the  path  of  our  Saviour  as  He  entered  Jerusalem.  The 
crucified  Christ  received  a  crown  of  thorns  from  His  execu- 
tioners, but  flowers  strewn  by  unseen  hands  exhaled  their 
fragrance  around  the  cave  where  His  body  was  laid. — From 
his  Oratio7i  at  Riverside  Park^  New  York^  Decoration  Day^ 
1886. 

JOHN  DAVIS  LONG. 

Secretary  of  the   Navy  under   President   McKiiley. 

HAT  has  Jesus  Christ  done  for  humanity?"  I 
should  say  that  He  has  done  more  than  any 
other  religious  teacher.  The  seed  he  sowed  fell, 
indeed,  into  good  ground,  and  His  system  has 
been  adopted  by  the  most  enterprising  and  progressive 
nations  of  the  world.  But  the  vast  growth  of  what  we  call 
Christian  civilization  is  indebted,  not  alone  to  the  soil  from 

*  Bluff,  sturdy,  honest  Logan  was  a  Christian  in  faith  and  practice.  Here 
is  his  Bible,  which  he  read  with  daily  care.  Sincere  and  humble,  he  ac- 
cepted Christ  as  his  personal  Saviour.  When  given  the  Lord's  Supper,  too 
humble  in  spirit  to  kneel  on  the  cushion  around  the  altar,  he  knelt  on  the 
carpet,  and  with  his  precious  wife  received  the  tokens  of  a  Saviour's 
love. — From  ''Memorial  Addresses  on  the  Life  and  Character  of  John  A, 
Logan''  delivered  in  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives,  February 
9  and  16,  1887. 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  29I 

which  it  sprang,  but  also  to  Him  who  planted  it.  His  life, 
His  example,  and  His  teachings  not  only  are  still  the  very 
idea  of  personal  and  social  excellence,  character,  and  devel- 
opment, but  no  forecast  of  the  future  outgrowth  of  the  human 
soul  suggests  anything  farther  reaching  or  better.  He  has 
set  the  highest  example  of  a  life  of  moral,  intellectual,  and 
physical  energy,  exquisite  and  broad  in  its  sympathies,  com- 
plete in  its  usefulness  and  self-sacrifice,  and  ranging  in  its 
beneficence  from  the  loftiest  heights  of  moral  and  relig- 
ious philosophy  to  the  tenderest  chords  that  tremble  in  the 
bruised  heart  of  a  little  child.  And  He  has  transmitted  a 
body  of  moral  and  religious  teaching  which  at  once  meets 
the  aspiration  and  hunger  of  the  soul,  and  stimulates  every 
nerve  of  endeavor  forward  and  upward ;  at  once  puts  human- 
ity into  the  relation  of  worshipful,  and,  at  the  same  time,  in- 
telligent and  affectionate  consecration  to  God,  its  Father, 
and  into  sympathy  and  helpful  cooperation  with  its  fellow 
men.  Hence  the  Christian  Church ;  hence  the  teeming  civ- 
ilization of  charity  and  progress.  To  attempt  to  describe 
either  would  be  to  write  volumes,  and  yet  fail  to  exhaust  the 
theme.  So  would  it  be  to  attempt  to  describe  what  Christ 
has  done  for  humanity. — Christian  Register^  Boston^  Decem- 
ber 22,  18&7. 

JAMES  LONGSTREET, 

Confederate  Major  General  and  Diplomat. 

'EPIvYING  to  your  request,  I  am  pleased  to  say:  I 
believe  in  God,  the  Father,  and  in  His  only  be- 
gotten Son,  Jesus  Christ,  our  Lord.  It  is  my  cus- 
tom to  read  one  or  more  chapters  of  my  Bible  daily 
for  comfort,  guidance,  and  instruction.  Knowing  myself  a 
sinner,  I  am  greatly  relieved  by  the  happy  assurance  that  for 
such  our  Saviour  died,  and  that  under  lowly  penitence  He 
will  surely  forgive,  and  make  our  acceptance  certain  through 
His  holy  pleasure. 


292  A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

HENRY  WADSWORTH    LONGFELLOW, 

Poet ;  Twenty  Years  Professor  of  Belles-Lettres  in  Harvard  College. 

(1807-1882.) 


HIS  BROTHER'S  ORDINATION  HYMN. 

Christ  to  the  young  mati  said : 
"  Yet  one  thing  more  : 

If  thou  wouldst  perfect  be, 
Sell  all  thou  hast,  and  give  it  to  the  poor, 

And  come  and  follow  me  !  " 

Within  this  temple  Christ  again,  unseen, 
Those  sacred  words  hath  said. 

And  His  invisible  hands  to-day  have  been 
Laid  upon  a  young  man's  head. 

And  evermore  beside  him  on  his  way 
The  unseen  Christ, shall  move, 

That  he  may  lean  upon  His  arm  and  say, 
"  Dost  Thou,  dear  Lord,  approve  ? " 

Beside  him  at  the  marriage  feast  shall  be 
To  make  the  scene  more  fair  : 

Beside  him  in  the  dark  Gethsemane 
Of  pain  and  midnight  prayer. 

O  holy  trust !    O  endless  sense  of  rest ! 

Like  the  beloved  John 
To  lay  his  head  upon  our  Saviour's  breast, 

And  thus  to  journey  on. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  293 

CHARLES  LOUIS  LOOS, 

President  of  Kentucky  University. 

.HE  BIBLE,  embracing  the  Old  Testament  and  the 
New,  is  to  me  "the  Holy  Scriptures,"  "the  Oracles 
of  God,"  divinely  inspired;  the  only  law  of  faith,  con- 
duct, and  life,  "able  to  make  men  wise  unto  salvation 
through  faith  in  Christ  Jesus." 

Jesus,  the  Christ,  has  always  been  to  me,  in  my  deepest 
convictions  and  affections,  the  Son  of  God — "  God  manifest 
in  the  flesh,"  the  brightest  "effulgence  of  the  Father's  glory, 
and  the  perfect  expression  of  His  essential  being."  His 
Deity  (I  prefer  this  term  to  the  less  definite  word  divinity), 
eternal,  is  clearly  taught,  beyond  all  reasonable  controversy, 
in  the  New  Testament.  He  is  the  Lamb  of  God,  who,  by 
His  atoning  sacrifice  on  the  cross,  "  takes  away  the  sin  of 
the  world."  He  is,  as  is  said  of  Jehovah  in  the  Old  Testa- 
ment, "  the  First  and  the  Last,  the  King  of  kings,  and  Lord 
of  Lords,"  "  the  Hope  of  Glory." 


LOUIS  IX., 

"^V-^Y  King  of  France.     (1215-1270.) 

XI^Y  Dear  Daughter:  I  conjure  you  to  love  our  Lord 
^'^1.  with  all  your  might;  for  this  is  the  foundation  of  all 
^  ^r?  goodness.     No  one  is  so  worthy  to  be  loved.     Well 
may  we  say :  "  Lord,  Thou  art  our  God,  and  our  goods 
are  nothing  to  Thee."     It  was  the  Lord  who  sent  His  Son 
upon  the  earth,  and  delivered  Him  over  to  death  for  our  Sal- 
vation.    If  you  love  Him,  my  daughter,  the  advantage  will 


294  ^  CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

be  yours ;  and  be  assured  that  you  can  never  love  and  serve 
Him  too  much.  He  has  well  deserved  that  you  love  Him ; 
for  He  first  loved  us.  I  wish  you  would  comprehend  what 
the  Son  of  God  had  done  for  our  redemption.  Bestow  all 
your  care  to  avoid  everything  that  may  displease  Him. — 
Page  49,  ^^ Power  of  Religion^^  by  Lindley  Murray. 


SETH  LOW, 

Late  President,  Columbia  College ;  Mayor  of  New  York. 

HAT  can  Christians  do  better  in  such  a  time  as 
)\  this  than  to  bear  their  unshaken  testimony  to  their 
belief  that  there  is  no  other  Name  under  heaven 
whereby  men  must  be  saved  but  the  name  of  Jesus 
Christ?  The  only  Name  whereby  man  as  an  individual  can 
be  redeemed  from  the  lower  life  to  the  highest,  the  only 
Name  whereby  man  in  society  can  emerge  from  the  condition 
of  constant  struggle  merely  for  existence  into  the  glorious 
liberty  of  the  children  of  God?  Surely  there  is  nothing  that 
we  can  do  more  vital  than  to  witness  to  the  eternal  truth 
that  the  things  which  are  seen  are  temporal,  and  it  is  only 
the  things  which  are  not  seen  which  are  eternal. — Address  as 
Chairman  of  ' '  All  day  Meeting  for  Prayer  and  Conference^ ' ' 
New  York^  January  ii,  1900,  preliminary  to  Ecumenical 
Conference  07t  Foreign  Missions, 


LUCIUS  Q.  C.  LAMAR, 

Congressman;    United  States  Senator;    Secretary  of  Interior  under  Presi- 
dent Cleveland ;  Justice  United  States  Supreme  Court 
till  death.     (1825-1893.) 

'T  is  proper  to  show  my  colors  and  avow  my  faith.     I 
simply  declare  that  I  believe  there  is  a  God;    a  per- 
sonal, infinitely  gracious  Creator  and  Father  of  all ;  a 
God  of  goodness,  justice  and  holiness ;  the  God  of  the 
Bible.     I  also  declare  my  belief  that  the  Bible  is  the  Word  of 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  295 

God,  and  that  the  central  idea  of  the  inspired  Revelation  is 
Jesus  Christ.  *'God,  who  at  sundry  times  and  in  divers 
manners  spake  in  time  past  unto  the  fathers  by  the  prophets, 
hath  in  these  last  days  spoken  unto  us  by  His  Son,  whom  He 
hath  appointed  Heir  of  all  things,  by  whom  also  He  made 
the  worlds ;  who  being  the  brightness  of  His  glory,  and  the 
express  image  of  His  Person,  and  upholding  all  things  by  the 
word  of  His  power  when  He  had  by  Himself  purged  our  sins, 
sat  down  on  the  right  hand  of  the  Majesty  on  high. '  * 

EDWARD  M.  LEWIS, 

Expert  Pitcher  Boston  Baseball  Club,  National  League, 
Champions  of  1897  and  1898. 

^/lY  Bible  is  the  Word  of  God.  It  is  a  Divine  revela- 
IntL  ^^o^'  Beside  it  all  other  books  lose  their  luster. 
C>y^  The  four  Gospels  are  its  heart  and  center,  while  the 
Old  Testament  is  a  magnificent  prologue.  Jesus 
Christ  is  the  Son  of  God.  He  came  to  save  the  world  from 
sin  by  atonement  on  the  Cross.  He  is  the  perfect  Man.  In 
Him  the  tender  feelings  of  a  mother  are  united  with  the  rug- 
ged vigor  of  a  fisherman.  He  is  not  only  all  sympathy,  all 
love,  all  meekness,  but  He  is  more — all  courage,  all  heroism, 
all  strength.      /^  p.  /h 


JAMES  RUSSELL  LOWELL, 

Poet;    Essayist;    Diplomat.     (1819-1891.) 

HATEVER  defects  and  imperfections  may  attach 
to  a  few  points  of  the  doctrinal  system  of  Calvin, 
the  bulk  of  which  is  simply  what  all  Christians 
believe,  it  will  be  found  that  Calvinism,  or  any 
other  ism  which  claims  an  open  Bible  and  a  crucified 
and  risen  Christ,  is  infinitely  preferable  to  any  form  of 
polite  and  polished  skepticism  which  gathers  as  its  vo- 
taries the  degenerate  sons  of  heroic  ancestors,  who,  having 
been  trained  in  a  society  and  educated  in  schools,  the  founda- 


296  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

tion  of  which  were  laid  by  men  of  faith  and  piety,  now  turn 
and  kick  down  the  ladder  by  which  they  have  climbed  up, 
and  persuade  men  to  live  without  God  and  leave  them  to  die 
without  hope. 

The  worst  kind  of  religion  is  no  religion  at  all,  and  these 
men,  living  in  ease  and  luxury,  indulging  themselves  in  the 
"amusement  of  going  without  religion"  may  be  thankful  that 
they  live  in  lands  where  the  Gospel  they  neglect  has  tamed 
the  beastliness  and  ferocity  of  the  men  who,  but  for  Chris- 
tianity, might  long  ago  have  eaten  their  carcasses  like  the 
South  Sea  Islanders,  or  cut  off  their  heads  and  tanned  their 
hides  like  the  monsters  of  the  French  Revolution.  When 
the  microscope  of  scepticism,  having  hunted  the  heavens 
and  sounded  the  seas  to  disprove  the  existence  of  a  Creator, 
shall  have  turned  its  attention  to  human  society,  and  found 
a  place  ten  miles  square  where  a  decent  man  can  live  in 
decency,  comfort,  and  security,  supporting  and  educating  his 
children  unspoiled  and  unpolluted;  a  place  where  age  is  rev- 
erenced, infancy  appreciated,  manhood  respected,  womanhood 
honored,  and  human  life  held  in  due  regard ;  when  sceptics 
can  find  such  a  place  ten  miles  square  on  this  globe  where 
the  Gospel  of  Christ  has  not  gone  and  cleared  the  way  and 
laid  the  foundation  and  made  decency  and  security  possible, 
it  will  then  be  in  order  for  the  sceptical  literati  to  move 
thither  and  there  ventilate  their  views.  But  so  long  as  these 
very  men  are  dependent  upon  the  religion  which  they  dis- 
card for  every  privilege  they  enjoy  they  may  well  hesitate 
a  little  before  they  seek  to  rob  the  Christian  of  his  hopes  and 
humanity  of  its  faith  in  that  Saviour  who  alone  has  given  to 
man  the  hope  of  life  eternal,  which  makes  life  tolerable  and 
society  possible,  and  robs  death  of  its  terrors  and  the  grave 
of  its  gloom. — An  after-dinner  speech  iJi  London  in  honor  of 
the  poet  Brow7iing. 

John    Skeffington,    Lord   Viscount    Massereene    and 
Ferrard,  Irish  Nobleman  (181 2-1863): 

We  have  sinned  against  a  Saviour;  we  have  sinned  e'en  to  death. 
God  is  pleading,  gently  pleading  with  the  creatures  of  His  breath. 


^^^#»a. 


PROMINENT  UNITED  STATES  SENATORS. 


John  B.  Gordon, 

Page  jyS. 

Francis  M.  Cockrell, 

Page  97. 

Thomas  V/   Palmer, 

Page  348 


GEORGE  F.  HOAR, 
Page  2JJ. 

Henry  Wilson, 

Pagesog. 

HENRY  B.  ANTHONY, 
Page  lb. 

Joseph  B.  Foraker. 

Page  i8g. 


WILLIAM  P.  FRYE, 
Page  162. 

JOSEPH  R.  HAWLEY. 
Page  22Q. 

JOHN  M.  THURSTON, 
Page  461. 


A   CIvOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  297 

SIR  JOHN  LUBBOCK, 

President  of  London  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  M.  P. 

^N  his  chapter  on  "  The  Choice  of  Books,"  he  places 
the  Bible  the  first  in  the  list  of  the  one  hundred  best 
books. 

In  this  same  volume  he  says:  "The  Bible  dwells 
most  forcibly  on  the  blessings  of  peace:  'My  peace  I  give 
you;  not  as  the  world  giveth,  give  I  unto  you.'  Heaven  is 
described  as  a  place  where  the  wicked  cease  from  troubling, 
and  the  weary  are  at  rest." 

"Collect  from  the  Bible  all  that  Christ  thought  necessary 
for  His  disciples,  and  how  little  Dogma  there  is.  '  Pure  re- 
ligion and  undefiled  before  God  and  the  Father  is  this,  to* 
visit  the  fatherless  and  widows  in  their  affliction,  and  to  keep 
himself  unspotted  from  the  world.'  'By  this  shall  all  mem 
know  that  ye  are  my  disciples,  if  ye  have  love  one  to  an- 
other.' 'Suffer  little  children  to  come  unto  Me.'  And  one 
lesson  which  little  children  have  to  teach  us  is  that  religion 
is  an  affair  of  the  heart,  and  not  the  mind  only." — Chapters 
XI  and  XIII ^  ^^The  Pleasures  of  Life^^''  by  Sir  John  Lubbock, 


WILHELM  LUBKE, 

German  Historian  of  Art.     (1826-1893.) 

^HE  figures  of  sacred  personages,  beyond  all  others 
that  of  our  Saviour,  were  thrown  forward  in  strong 
relief.  It  was  not  enough  to  represent  Christ  under 
the  allegorical  figure  of  the  Good  Shepherd;  men 
endeavored  to  reproduce  the  appearance  of  the  Divine 
Teacher  in  the  .fullness  of  spiritual  power  and  calm  sublim- 
ity.— Page  382,  Volume  /,  ''''Outlines  of  the  History  of  Art^'' 
by  Dr.  Wilhelm  Lubke^  translated  by  Clarence  Cook, 


298  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

MARQUIS  OF  LANSDOWNE, 

British    Statesman;    Lord  of  Treasury,    1869-1872;     Governor-General  of 

Canada,  1883-1888;  Governor-General  of  India,  1888-1893;  Secretary 

of  War,  1895-1900;  Foreign  Secretary  since  1900. 

>HE  receiving  of  the  Lord's  Supper  was  never  intended 
to  be  a  qualification  for  an  office  but  as  an  open  dec- 
laration of  one's  being  a  sincere  member  of  the  Church 
of  Christ,  commemorating  the  dying  love  of  our 
Saviour.  Whoever  presumes  to  receive  it  with  any  other 
view,  profanes  it  and  may  be  said  to  seek  his  own  promotion 
in  this  world  by  eating  and  drinking  damnation  to  himself. 
— From  a  speech  in  the  House  of  Lords ,^  1882. 


STEPHEN  BLEECKER  LUCE, 

Rear  Admiral  of  the  United  States  Navy;  Founder  of  the  United  States 
(?c.n  Naval  War  College. 

^UREIyY  seamen  are  worthy  to  appear  in  your  "  Cloud 
of  Witnesses."  Not  only  did  our  Saviour  consort  with 
the  seamen  of  Galilee,  but  there  are  many  examples 
in  history  of  noted  naval  heroes  who  exhibited  the 
highest  Christian  virtues.  I  wish  to  be  counted  among  this 
great  company  of  believers  in  the  divinity  of  Christ,  and  in 
the  inspiration  of  all  Scripture. 


JOSEPH  HENRY  LUMPKIN, 

Lawyer,  and  Chief-Justice  of  Georgia  Supreme  Court. 
(1799  -1867.) 

^  JL^OST  cheerfully,  as  a  man  and  a  magistrate,  while  pen 

^  ^\.  and  breath  endure,  and  until  my  voice  is  hushed,  and 

^^<<r9  my  pen  paralyzed  in  death,  will  I  bear  my  humble 

testimony  to  the  value  of  the  Bible.    Had  I  the  wealth 

of  the  world,  and  there  was  but  one  copy  of  the  Scriptures 

extant,  and  that  was  hid  away  in  the  uttermost  parts  of  the 


A  CLOUD  OF  WITNESSES.  299 

earth,  I  would  gladly  dispose  of  all  my  treasure  and  traverse 
sea  and  land  to  possess  myself  of  this  pearl  of  great  price. 
.  .  .  Thank  God  for  having,  in  His  great  mercy,  organized 
this  as^a  Christian  nation.  The  Bible  is  necessary  to  man. 
It  is  the  sum,  and  sun,  'and  soul  of  his  felicity.  Tell  me  not 
of  the  physical  improvements,  the  intellectual  attainments 
of  this  wonderful  age !  Conscience  must  be  convinced,  en- 
lightened, quickened ;  the  lightning  of  the  passions  bridled 
and  restrained ;  and  the  Bible  is  the  only  book  which  has 
arrayed  vividly  before  the  mind  the  retributions  of  eternity, 
which  has  brought  life  and  immortality  to  light;  .  .  .  Give 
me  the  Bible,  which,  while  it  dispels  the  darkness  of  the 
mind,  warms  and  softens  the  moral  winter  of  the  heart ; 
which  sees  God  and  providence,  and  His  manifold  wisdom 
above,  beneath,  within,  around ;  which  teaches  the  doctrine 
of  man's  fall  and  depravity,  and  reveals  the  plan  of  his 
recovery ;  which  opens  up  a  way  through  the  second  Adam, 
the  Lord  from  Heaven,  to  a  Paradise  for  the  posterity  of 
the  first^  where  the  serpent  shall  no  more  deceive,  and  where 
the  forbidden  fruit  shall  never  enchant. — From  a  letter  ad- 
dressed to  the  American  Bible  Society^  and  dated  at  Athens^ 
Georgia^  November  4,  1852. 


SIR  CHARLES  LYELL, 

British  Geologist.     (1797-1875.) 

^N  the  year  1806  the  French  Institute  enumerated  no 
less  than  eighty  geological  theories  which  were  hostile 
to  the  Scriptures,  but  not  one  of  those  theories  is  held 
to-day. — "  The  Bible  and  the  Nineteenth  Century^''  by  L. 
T.  Townsend^  Professor  in  Boston  University, 

His  correspondence,  and  especially  with  his  father,  was 
marked  by  a  deep  religious  tone  and  expression,  revealing  a 
fixed  faith  in  Christ,  a  high  regard  for  the  Bible,  and  a  firm 
belief  in  an  infinite  and  eternal  Being.    He  once  declared  in 


300  A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

the  presence  of  men  of  thought  and  science :  "  In  whatever 
direction  we  pursue  our  researches,  whether  in  time  or  in 
space,  we  discover  everywhere  the  clear  proofs  of  a  Creative 
intelligence,  and  of  His  foresight,  wisdom,  and  power." 
Science  and  religion  for  him  were  not  divorced,  or,  as  stated  in 
a  more  comprehensive  way  by  one  of  his  biographers,  Lyell 
knew  and  felt  what  the  Christian  world  has  come  to  feel,  that 
truth  must  and  will  stand,  and  that  there  is  no  real  conflict 
between  science  and  religion. — ^''Famous  Men  of  Science ^^'^  by 
Mrs,  S,  K,  Bolton, 


LORD  GEORGE  LYTTLETON. 

English  Statesman  and  Author.    (1709-1773.) 

;HE  Christian  religion  is  a  Divine  Revelation. 

Paul  preached  Christ  Jesus,  and  not  himself.  Christ 
was  the  head,  he  only  the  minister. 

Paul  determined  to  know  nothing  among  those  He 
converted  save  Jesus  Christ  and  Him  crucified. 

If  the  glorious  light  of  the  Gospel  be  sometimes  overcast 
with  clouds  of  doubt,  so  is  the  light  of  our  reason  too. 

To  convert  the  Jews  to  Christ,  Paul  was  able  to  argue 
from  their  own  Scriptures,  on  the  authority  of  books  which 
they  owned  to  contain  Divine  Revelations,  and  from  which 
he  could  clearly  convince  them  that  Jesus  was  the  very 
Christ. —  Volume  XI V^  ^''Evangelical  Family  Library.^'* 


ROBERT  WILLIAM  LOWRY. 

British  Lieutenant-General ;  Philanthropist. 

HAT  I  am  and  what  I  have  in  this  life  is  of  God's 
great  mercy,  and  in  that  mercy,  for  Jesus  Christ's 
sake,  lies  all  my  trust  for  the  unending  life  beyond. 
God's  Book  is  its  own  defender,  give  it  room,  and 
it  will  conquer  the  world!  /^^        ^     r-s/^^^-*^ 


A  CLOUD  OF  WITNESSES.  3OI 

THOMAS  BABINGTON  MACAU  LAY, 

English  Historian,  Essayist,  Poet,  and  Statesman.     (1800-1859.) 


m 


^ 


>T  the  time  when  that 
odious  style,  almost 
universal,  had  ap- 
peared, that  stu- 
pendous work,  the  English 
Bible  —  a  Book  which,  if 
everything  else  in  our  lan- 
guage should  perish,  would 
alone  suffice  to  show  the 
whole  extent  of  its  beauty 
and  power. — Page  348,  Vol- 
ume /,  Macaulay  s  Essays, 

The  Saviour  of  mankind  Himself,  in  whose  blameless  life 
malice  could  find  no  act  to  impeach,  had  been  called  in  ques- 
tion for  words  spoken.  False  witnesses  had  suppressed  a 
syllable  which  would  have  made  it  clear  that  those  words 
were  figurative,  and  had  thus  furnished  the  Sanhedrim  with 
a  pretext  under  which  the  foulest  of  all  judicial  murders  had 
been  perpetrated. — Chapter  F,  ^^Macaulafs  History  of  Eng- 
land ^ 

God,  the  uncreated,  the  incomprehensible,  the  invisible, 
attracted  few  worshipers.  A  philosopher  might  admire  so 
noble  a  conception,  but  the  crowd  turned  away  in  disgust 
from  words  which  presented  no  image  to  their  minds.  It 
was  before  Diety  embodied  in  a  human  form,  walking  among 
men,  partaking  of  their  infirmities,  leaning  on  their  bosoms, 
weeping  over  their  graves,  slumbering  in  the  manger,  bleed- 
ing on  the  Cross,  that  the  prejudices  of  the  Synagogue,  and 
the  doubts  of  the  Academy,  and  the  pride  of  the  Portico, 
and  the  fasces  of  the  Lictor,  and  the  swords  of  thirty  le- 
gions were  humbled  in  the  dust. — Lord  Macaulay^  Milton^ 
Aug,,  1825. 


302  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

ALEXANDER.  MACALISTER, 

Professor  of  Anatomy  in  the  University  of 
Cambridge. 

-NOW  ye  not  that  your  body  is  a  temple  of  the  Holy 
Ghost?"  wrote  Paul  to  the  Corinthians.  He  thus 
indicates  what  is  the  highest  design  of  the  body  of 
man,  and  though  this  temple  is,  like  all  things 
earthly,  corruptible,  yet  it  is  worthy  as  a  dwelling-place  of 
God.  It  is  a  temple  excellent  in  beauty.  The  sculptor  and 
poet  have  exerted  their  highest  skill  in  the  representation  of 
it.  .  .  .  We  are  constrained  to  say  with  the  Psalmist: 
''  Thou  hast  made  him  a  little  lower  than  God";  nay,  more  ; 
for  hath  not  God  Himself,  in  the  person  of  His  Son,  in  order 
to  our  salvation  and  restoration  to  His  own  image,  conde- 
scended to  take  upon  Himself  our  nature,  so  that  the  perfec- 
tion of  manhood  is  the  "  measure  of  the  stature  of  the  full- 
ness of  Christ."  The  Christian  Revelation  assures  us  that 
man  will  yet  be  exalted  to  a  position  inconceivably  more 
glorious  than  that  which  he  has  hitherto  occupied,  for  as 
human  nature  in  the  person  of  Christ  is  seated  at  the  right 
hand  of  God,  even  so  shall  those  who  by  faith  are  united  to 
Christ  be  elevated  to  bear  the  image  of  the  heavenly. — 
Pages  46—48,  ''''Man  Physiologically  Considered^''''  a  ''''Present- 
Day  Tract ^^  by  Alexander  Macalister. 


JOHN  MACDONALD, 

A  Member  of  the  Canadian  Senate. 


.HE  many  and  precious    promises  of  God's  Word  all 
point  to  the  general  diffusion  of  the  knowledge  of  the 
Lord  throughout  the  earth,  and  to  the  ultimate  and 
complete  triumph  of  the  Gospel  of  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  over  every  system  of  superstition  and  error. 

How  beautiful  are  the  feet  of  them  that  preach  the  Gospel 
of  peace,  and  bring  glad  tidings  of  good  things  !  (Romans  x., 
14,  15).      None  but  those  sent  in  the  truest  sense,  that  is, 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  303 

those  who  are  called  and  fitted  by  the  Holy  Spirit ;  those 
who  are  sent  forth,  not  with  the  consent  only,  but  with  the 
full  approval  of  the  Church,  are  fit  messengers  to  declare  the 
Gospel  of  the  Son  of  God  to  the  perishing  heathen. — Page 
520,  Volume  11^ ''  Report  of  the  Missionary  Confere^tce^''''  Lon- 
don, 1888. 

SIR  DUNCAN  MACGREGOR. 

^  ^j,  Scottish  Major  General.     (1787-1882.) 

ntC  'ONE  who  are  in  the  habit  of  reading:  their  Bibles 
can  fail  to  notice  that  faith  in  Jesus  Christ,  the  Son 
of  God,  is  therein  made  the  great  pivot  on  which 
^  the  salvation  of  man  hinges ;  that  the  whole  human 
race,  without  distinction  of  rank,  nation,  or  sex,  being  justly 
exposed  to  the  wrath  of  Almighty  God,  nothing  but  the 
precious  blood  of  Christ,  which  was  shed  on  the  Cross,  can 
possibly  atone  for  their  sins.  — Page  78,  ' '  The  Loss  of  the 
Kent  East  Indiaman^^^  by  Sir  Duncan  Macgregor, 


JUSTIN  McCarthy, 

Member  of  Parliament ;  Author. 


BELIEVE  in  God,  the  Father,  Creator  of  heaven  and 
earth,  and  in  Jesus  Christ,  His  only  Son,  our  Lord ; 
.  who  was  crucified,  dead  and  buried;  the 
third  day  rose  again  from  the  dead ;  He  ascended  into 
heaven,  and  sitteth  at  the  right  hand  of  God,  the  Almighty 
Father,  from  thence  He  shall  judge  the  living  and  the  dead. 
I  believe  in  the  Holy  Ghost,  .  .  .  the  forgiveness  of 
sins,  the  resurrection  of  the  dead  and  the  life  everlasting. 


JuAt^  /^f^CaA^y^^ 


*His  testimony  appears  in  the  above  well-known  form.     (S.  A.  N.) 


304  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

SIR  JAMES  MACINTOSH, 

British  Statesman  and  Historian.     (1765-1832.) 

.HERB  is  nothing  in  this  world  so  right  as  to  cultivate 
and  exercise  kindness,  the  most  certainly  evangelical 
of  all  doctrines,  THE  principle  of  Jesus  Christ. 

During  many  sleepless  nights  the  contemplation  of 
Jesus  Christ  and  thoughts  concerning  the  Gospel,  with  prayer 
to  God,  were  my  chief  occupation.  Jesus  Christ — love — are 
the  same  thing.  I  believe  in  Jesus.  — {Dying  words. ) — ' '  Mem- 
oirs of  the  Life  of  the  Right  Honorable  James  Macintosh^ ' ' 
by  his  son^  Robert  Ja^nes  Macintosh. 


FRANCIS  ANDREW  MARCH, 

President  of  American  Philological  Association;  late  President  of  Spelling 
Reform  Association;  Educator  and  Author. 

^T  is  delightful  to  find  as  one  grows  old  that  the  more 
we  know  the  more  we  enjoy  simple  truths,  elementary 
knowledge.     We  see  them  in  their  environment.     Each 
generation  prizes  higher  than  the  last  the  Holy  Bible, 
the  inspired  record  of  God's  providences  and  promises. 

GEORGE  EDWIN  MacLEAN, 

Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Nebraska. 

ACCEPT  reverently  Jesus  Christ  as  the  Logos^  and  the 
Holy  Scriptures  as  the  Word  of  God,  because  it  em- 
bodies the  life  and  spirit  of  our  Saviour — the  living 
Word.     The  lyord  of  Hosts  is  with  the  Book,  and  His 
victories  will  surely  vindicate  it. 


^ 


CL(/Ylf/^        ^'      ^^i^^^>^  ^7\^^5C4-V_ 


A  CIvOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  305 

GEORGE  PERKINS  MARSH, 

Philologist  and  Diplomat.     (  1801-1882.) 

H ROUGH  the  kindness  of  Mrs.  Caroline  C.  Marsh,  his 
relict,  this  declaration  of  belief  is  furnished  the 
reader:  "I  can  not  better  formulate  my  religious  faith 
than  by  quoting  from  Paul's  Epistle  to  Timothy,  chap- 
ter I  St,  verse  15:  'That  Christ  Jesus  came  into  the  world  to 
save  sinners,  of  whom  I  am  chief.'  The  last  clause  I  know 
to  be  true;  in  the  first,  I  trust,  I  hope." 

Intellectual  philosophy  can  be  successfully  pursued  only 
where  the  Divine  Word,  undistorted  by  any  gloss  of  human 
authority,  may  be  freely  read  and  openly  discussed. 
We  find  the  loftiest  poetry,  the  mosu  glowing  eloquence,  the 
most  terrible  sublimity,  the  tenderest  pathos,  and  the  most 
ravishing  beauty  in  the  Psalmist  and  Prophets,  and  in  the 
Gospels  the  life  and  passion  of  our  Saviour. — ^'Influence  of 
the  Bible  on  Literature  and  Art. ' '  From  an  Address  before 
The  New  England  Society. 


GIUSEPPE  MAZZINI, 

Italian   Patriot.     (1805-1872. ) 


HEN,  in  the  presence  of  the  Young  Europe  now 

arising,  all  the   altars   of  the  old  world  shall  be 

overthrown,  two  new  altars  will  be  raised  upon 

the  soil  made  fruitful  by  the  Divine  Word. 

We  advance,  encouraged  by  the  sacred  promises  of  Jesus; 

we  seek  the  new  gospel,  of  which,  before  dying.  He  gave  us 

the  immortal  hope,  and  of  which  the  Christian  Gospel  is  but 

the  germ,  even  as  man  is  the  germ  of  Humanity. 

Christ  expired.  All  He  asked  of  mankind  wherewith  to 
save  them  was  a  cross  whereon  to  die.  But  ere  He  died  He 
had  announced  the  glad  tidings  to  the  people.     To  those 


306  A  CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

who  asked  Him  from  whence  He  had  received  it,  He  an- 
swered, "  From  God,  the  Father."  From  the  height  of  His 
Cross  He  had  invoked  Him  twice.  Therefore,  upon  the  Cross 
did  His  victory  begin,  and  still  does  endure. 

Our  forefathers  sleep  proudly  and  calmly  in  their  tombs ; 
they  repose,  wrapped  in  their  flags,  like  warriors  after  a  bat- 
tle. Fear  not  to  offend  them.  Their  banner  dyed  red  in 
the  blood  of  Christ,  translated  by  Luther  to  the  Convention^ 
to  be  raised  upon  the  corpses  of  those  slain  in  the  battles  of 
the  people,  is  a  sacred  legacy  to  us  all. — See  Chapter  on 
''''Faith  and  the  Ftiture^^  in  ''''Essays :  Selected  from  the  Writ- 
ings^ Literary^  Political^  and  Religious^''''  by  Giuseppe  Mazzini. 


JAMES  CLERK  MAXWELL, 

English  Physicist.     (1831-1879.) 

^HINK  what  God  determined  to  do  to  all  those  who 
submit  themselves  to  His  righteousness  and  are  will- 
ing to  receive  His  gift.  They  are  to  be  conformed 
to  the  image  of  His  Son,  and  when  that  is  fulfilled, 
and  God  sees  that  they  are  conformed  to  the  image  of  Christ, 
there  can  be  no  more  condemnation,  for  this  is  the  praise 
which  God  Himself  gives,  whose  judgment  is  just.  So  we 
ought  always  to  hope  in  Christ,  for  as  sure  as  we  receive  Him 
now,  so  sure  will  we  be  made  conformable  to  His  image. — 
''''Life  of  James  Clark  Maxwell^^^  by  Lewis  Campbell  and 
William  Garnett. 


>tf? 


■  COLIN  MACKENZIE. 

Late  British  Lieutenant  General.     (1825-1881, 


Y  sense  of  weakness  and  absolute  inability  to  control 
the  progress  of  events  which  were  hurrying  to  a  cri- 
0>^  sis,  and  which  were  fraught  with  safety  or  destruc- 
tion, and  with  honor  or  dishonor  to  my  country,  had 
the  good  effect  of  leading  me  to  Christ,  whose  arm  is  never 
shortened  to  save  all  who  put  their  trust  in  Him.  — Page  189, 
*  *  Twelve  Indian  Statesmen^ ' '  by  George  Smith, 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


307 


JAMES  MADISON, 

Fourth  President  of  the  United  States.     (1751-1836.) 

M  O  N  G      his 

manuscripts 

are      minute 

and  elaborate 
notes  made  by  him  on 
the  Gospels  and  the 
Acts  of  the  Apostles, 
which  evince  a  close 
and  discriminating 
study  of  the  Sacred 
Writings.  In  one  of 
these  notes,  referring 
to  the  Bereans  as  more 
noble  than  those  of 
Thessalonica,  he  com- 
mends their  conduct 
"  as  a  noble  example 
for  all  succeeding 

Christians  to  imitate."  In  another  place,  speaking  of  the 
words  of  Jesus  to  Paul  at  his  conversion,  he  says,  "It  is  not 
the  talking  but  the  walking  and  workiftg  person  that  is  the 
true  Christian."  Again,  "  Christ's  Divinity  appears  by  St. 
John,  chapter  xx,  2 :  '  And  Thomas  answered  and  said 
unto  Him,  my  Lord  and  my  God  ! '  Resurrection  testified 
to  and  witnessed  by  the  Apostles,  Acts  iv,  33  :  '  And  with 
great  power  gave  the  apostles  witness  of  the  resurrection  of 
the  Lord  Jesus,  and  great  grace  was  upon  them  all.' " — Pages 
33  and  34,  Volume  /,  in  ^^ Biography  of  James  Madison^^^  by 
William  C.  Rives. 


I  have  summoned  you  that  you  might  see  in  what  tran- 
quility a  Christian  can  die. — -Joseph  Addison. 


308  A  CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

HORACE  MANN, 

Educator.     {1796-1859.) 

;T  is  our  duty,  and  our  highest  interest,  and  our  only 
freedom,  to  love  God  with  all  our  heart  and  under- 
standing and  mind  and  strength  and  our  neighbor  as 
ourself ;  should  strive  to  grow  up  into  the  likeness  of 
God  in  Christ,  eradicating  something  here,  supplying  some- 
thing there  ;  moulding,  shaping,  conforming,  until  it  may  be 
said,  without  blasphemy,  that  man  is  the  image  of  God. 

But  what  a  glorious  column  of  the  forms  of  men  stand  on 
the  other  side  ! — true  disciples  of  Jesus  Christ,  constituted  of 
piety,  philanthropy,  and  wisdom ;  men  who,  for  the  truth's 
sake,  can  bear  revilings  and  a  crown  of  thorns  ;  can  look 
without  shrinking  upon  the  cross ;  nay,  can  die  upon  the 
cross  if  need  be.  But,  oh !  when  the  sanctifying  hour  of 
death  has  passed,  then  the  revilings  become  world-wide  hom- 
ages ;  the  crown  of  thorns,  a  crown  of  amaranth,  blossoming 
forever  in  the  air  of  heaven  ;  even  the  accursed  Cross  is  made 
sacred  in  the  eyes  of  men. — From  ''''Life  of  Horace  ManUy^ 
by  his  wife. 

JOHN  MARSHALL, 

Chief-Justice  of  the  United    States  Supreme  Court  (1801-1835.) 
(1755-1835). 

IS  daughter  makes  this  statement  regarding  her 
father's  religious  views:  "  The  reason  why  he  never 
communed  was  that  he  was  a  Unitarian  in  opinion, 
though  he  never  joined  that  society.  He  told  me 
that  he  believed  in  the  truth  of  the  Christian  Revelation,  but 
not  in  the  divinity  of  Christ ;  but  during  the  last  months  of 
his  life  he  read  ''  Keith  on  Prophecy,"  where  our  Saviour's 
divinity  is  incidentally  treated,  and  was  convinced  by  this 
work,  and  the  fuller  investigation  to  which  it  led,  of  the  su- 
preme divinity  of  our  Saviour.     He  determined  to  apply  to 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  309 

to  the  communion  of  our  Church,  objecting  to  communion 
in  private,  because  he  thought  it  his  duty  to  make  a  public 
confession  of  the  Saviour ;  and  while  waiting  for  improved 
health  to  enable  him  to  go  to  Church  for  that  purpose,  he 
grew  worse  and  died. — Page  265,  ''^John  Mar  shall ^^^  American 
Statesmen  Series^  by  Allen  B,  Magruder, 


WILLIAM  MATHEWS, 

Author. 

^  "\0R  ourselves,  we  thank  God  for  every  exposure  of  a 
)^^(A^  forgery,  whether  in  His  Book,  or  in  man's  books;  and 
to  our  mind  the  most  cogent  proof  that  the  Holy 
Scriptures  are  from  Him,  is  the  fact  that  while  other 
histories  have  been  found  to  swarm  with  errors,  they,  when 
subjected  to  the  intensest,  most  microscopic  scrutiny  of  mod- 
ern criticism,  have  come  forth  from  the  ordeal  substantially 
unscathed. — Page  213  of  his  '-^ Hours  with  Men  and  Books. ''^ 

The  words  ^' crime  "  and  ''criminal"  belong  to  all  lan- 
guages, but  those  of  "  sin"  and  "  sinner,"  belong  only  to  the 
Christian  tongue.  For  a  similar  reason  man  could  always 
call  God  "  Father,"  which  expresses  only  a  relation  of  crea- 
tion and  power ;  but  no  man  of  his  own  strength  could  say 
"  my  Father,"  for  this  is  the  relation  of  love,  foreign  even  to 
Mount  Sinai,  and  which  belongs  only  to  Calvary. — Page  81 
of  his  "  Words ^  and  their  Use  and  Abuse .^^ 


JOSEPH  W.  MAUCK, 

President  of  the  University  of  South  Dakota. 

BELIEVE  that  the  Christ  is  the  Son  of  the  living 
God,  the  only  example  of  a  perfect  life ;  that  the  Holy 
Bible  is  the  Word  of  a  God  of  infinite  wisdom  and 
love ;  that  man  has  a  capacity  for  attaining  to  the 
likeness  of  his  Creator  by  observing  that  Word ;  that  the 
glorifying  of  God  contemplated  by  the  Word  is  a  rational  and 


3IO  A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

natural  means  of  such  attainment  (not  an  end) ;  that  our  i:a- 
ability  to  explain  some  of  the  "mysteries"  of  the  Scriptures 
and  the  proved  results  of  "  acceptance  "  of  the  Christ  arises 
from  imperfection  in  our  attainment;  that  without  excep- 
tion the  remarkable  promises  of  the  Bible  and  the  Christ  are 
realized  in  so  far  as  a  fair  test  of  the  same  is  made. 


MATTHEW  FONTAINE  MAURY. 

Scientist  and  Hydrographer.     (1806-1873.) 

HAVE    always    found  in  my  scientific   studies,  that, 

when  I  could  get  the  Bible  to  say  anything  on  the 

subject  it  afforded  me  a  firm  platform  to  stand  upon, 

and  a  round  in  the  ladder  by  which  I  could  safely 

ascend. 

As  our  knowledge  of  nature  and  her  laws  has  increased,  so 
has  our  knowledge  of  many  passages  of  the  Bible  improved. 
The  Bible  called  the  earth  "  the  round  world,"  yet  for  ages 
it  was  the  most  damnable  heresy  for  Christian  men  to  say 
that  the  world  is  round ;  and,  finally,  sailors  circumnavigated 
the  globe,  and  proved  the  Bible  to  be  right,  and  saved  Chris- 
tian men  of  science  from  the  stake. — '''' Physical  Geography 
of  the  Sea^^^  by  Matthew  Fontaine  Maury. 


CHARLES  MACKAY. 

Scottish  Poet.     (1814-1889.) 


HEY  listened  with  holy  raptures  on  every  scene  de- 
scribed by  the  Evangelists.  To  them  it  was  bliss 
indeed  to  drink  the  clear  waters  of  the  Jordan,  or  be 
baptized  where  John  had  baptized  our  Saviour.  They 
wandered  with  awe  and  pleasure  in  the  purlieus  of  the  tem- 
ple, on  the  solemn  mount  of  Olives,  or  the  awful  Calvary, 
where  a  God  had  bled  and  died  for  sinful  men. — *'  The  Cru- 
sades^'' in  Volume  /,  "'Memoirs  of  Extraordinary  Popular 
Delusions. ' ' 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  3II 

HUGH  McCALMONT, 

(LORD  CAIRNS,) 

Irish  Lawyer;   Twice  Lord  High  Chancellor  of  England. 
(1819-1885.) 

I  KING  justified  by  faith  we  have  peace  with  God 
through  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ."  Our  one  object 
should  be  to  testify  our  love  to  Him.  God  help  us 
all  in  this  room,  and  every  one  else,  to  live  in  this 
faith,  and  to  die  in  this  faith,  for  Jesus  Christ's  sake.  ''  God 
so  loved  the  world  that  he  gave  His  only  begotten  Son,  that 
whosoever  believeth  in  Him  should  not  perish,  but  have 
eternal  life  " — ETERNAL,  ETERNAL  life !  It  is  necessary  for 
each  one  of  us  to  follow  in  the  steps  of  our  great  Master. 
Let  nothing  come  between  us  and  this. — ''Brief  Memoirs 
of  Hugh  McCahnont^  First  Earl  of  Cairns  (\%Z^^^'  pages  81 
and  82. 

HUGH  McCURDY. 

Most  Eminent  Commander  of  Knights  Templar. 

c^ 

y^^^OUR  favor,  asking  for  an  expression  of  my 
'-jW  faith  in  "Christ  and   the    Bible"  was  re- 

2  ^vS^  ceived.  I  give  it  to  you  with  pleasure :  I  believe 
in  God  the  Father  Almighty,  Maker  of  heaven 
and  earth :  and  in  Jesus  Christ  His  only  Son  our  Lord : 
who  was  conceived  by  the  Holy  Ghost,  born  of  the  Virgin 
Mary:  suffered  under  Pontius  Pilate,  was  crucified,  dead 
and  buried :  He  descended  into  hell :  the  third  day  He 
rose  again  from  the  dead:  He  ascended  into  heaven  and 
sitteth  on  the  right  hand  of  God  the  Almighty  Father: 
from  thence  He  shall  come  to  judge  the  quick  and  the 
dead.  I  believe  in  the  Holy  Ghost:  the  holy  Church:  the 
Communion  of  the  Saints:  the  forgiveness  of  sins:  the 
Resurrection  of  the  body :  and  the  Life  everlasting.     Amen. 


312  CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

GEORGE  BRINTON  McCLELLAN, 

Major-General  of  the  United  States  Army.    (1826-1885.) 

IS  creed  was  clear  as  crystal,  more  steadfast  than  the 
hills — the  faith  once  delivered  to  the  saints.  With 
his  intellectual  powers,  which  were  of  the  highest, 
and  with  his  heart,  which  was  supremely  gentle,  he 
was  a  follower  of  Jesus  Christ,  in  whom  he  believed  as  God, 
of  God. — See  ^^Biographical  Sketch  of  George  B.  McClel- 
lan^^'^  by  W,  C.  Prime ^  in  ^^ McClellarCs  Ow7i  Story,''^ 


WOLFGANG   MENZEL, 

German  Historian,   Poet  and  Critic.    (1798-1873.) 

;N  the  midst  of  the  tumult  of  nations,  Christianity,  the 
spirit  of  eternal  peace,  appeared  like  a  celestial  bow 
hanging  unmoved.  The  Gospel  was  preached  East 
and  West  by  the  followers  of  our  Saviour,  who  sealed 
their  profession  by  a  martyr's  death.  Though  cruelly  perse- 
cuted by  Roman  emperors,  Christianity  rose  again  with  ren- 
ovated strength.  Before  its  doctrines,  replete  with  eternal 
truth,  the  dark  fables  of  paganism  fell.  .  .  .  False  in- 
terpretation of  figurative  expressions  with  which  the  Word 
of  God  abounds  has  ever  been  due  to  ignorance  or  willful 
perversion. — Part  I V^   Volume  I^  ''MenzeVs  Germany,'''' 


WILLIAM  F.  McDowell, 

Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Denver. 

^HE  truest  philosophy,  the  noblest  poetry,  the  highest 
ethics,  the  most  fascinating  history,  the  richest  biog- 
raphy, the  most  spiritual  devotional  literature  are  in 
the  Bible.  Sir  Walter  Scott's  judgment  has  never 
been  reversed  :  ''  There  is  but  one  Book !  "  Its  principal  char- 
acter is  Jesus  Christ.  He  is  the  chief  Person  of  history. 
There  is  no  other  perfect  man ;  there  is  no  other  Saviour. 


^X  UMVtH>^i^-^ 


THEODORE    ROOSEVELT, 

Twenty-sixth  President  of  the  United  States. 

EARLY  every  man  who  has  added  to  the  sum  of  human  achievement  has 
based  his  life-work  on  biblical  teachings.  Our  greatest  men  in  large  num- 
bers have  been  diligent  students  of  the  Bible.  Lincoln  mastered  it  so  that 
he  became  almost  "  a  man  of  one  book."  From  cover  to  cover  you  will  not 
find  a  line  that  can  be  construed  into  an  apology  for  a  man  of  brains  to  sin  against 
the  light.  The  Lord's  work  can  be  done  only  by  the  man  who  is  neither  a  weakling 
nor  a  coward;  by  the  man  who  in  the  fullest  sense  of  the  word  is  a  true  Christian. 
I  plead  for  a  wider  and  deeper  study  of  this  Book,  which  in  every  civilized  tongue 
is  known  as  "  THE  BjOK." — Oyster  Bay,Ju7ie  ii,  1901.     See  a/so  page  381. 


AMERICA'S  THIRD  MARTYRED  PRESIDENT. 

IS  last  words:  "My  wife,  be  careful  about  her;  don't  let  her 
know.  Let  no  one  hurt  him  (the  assassin)  !  " —  To  Secretary  Cor- 
telyou  after  the  assassmation. 

When  placed  on  the  operating  table,  he  said  to  his  surgeons: 
"  I  am  in  your  hands."  Then  he  closed  his  lips  in  silent  prayer.  Tlicy 
began  to  open,  while  he  repeated  the  Lord's  Prayer  in  broken  sentences: 
"  Thy  kingdom  come,  Thy  will  be  done  in  earth,  as  it  is  in  heaven  !  .  .  . 
Thy  will  be  done  !  For  Thine  is  the  kingdom,  and  the  power  and  the 
glory  forever,  Amen!" — Exposition  Hospital,  Buffalo,  September  6,  1901. 
"  Nearer,  my  God,  to  Thee,  e'en  though  it  be  a  cross  !  "  "  Good-bye, 
all;  good-bye.  It  is  God's  way!  His  will  be  done  !  " — The  Preside?! fs 
dying  words,  MiLbiirn  Mansion,  September  14,  1901. 


A   CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES.  313 

WILLIAM  McKlNLEY,* 

(1843-1901.) 
^~v  1  Twenty-fourth  President  of  the  United  States. 

)ET  me  repeat  the  oath  administered  by  the  Chief  Jus- 
tice: *'I  will  faithfully  administer  the  office  of  the 
President  of  the  United  States.  .  .  ."  This  is 
the  obligation  I  have  reverently  taken  before  the  Lord 
this  day.  To  keep  it  will  be  my  single  purpose  and  my 
prayer. — See  Inaugural  Address^  March  \^  1897. 

Lincoln,  like  Washington,  illustrated  in  his  administration 
faith  in  God.  On  March  4,  1861,  he  said:  "Intelligence, 
patriotism,  Christianity,  and  a  firm  reliance  upon  Him  who 
has  never  forgotten  this  favored  land  are  still  competent  to 
adjust  in  the  best  way  all  our  present  difficulties." — From  a 
Talk  before  the  Baptist  Young  People's  Union^  Lakeside^  O., 
Jtdy  4,  1892. 

Yes,  and  I  could  not  stand  it  if  I  did  not  feel  that  I  was 
doing  the  work  of  my  Master. — In  reply  to  the  question^  '^  Are 
you  not  weary  ? '  * 

I  have  not  done  my  duty ;  I  have  sinned ;  I  want  to  be  a 
Christian ;  I  believe  religion  to  be  the  best  thing  in  all  the 
world.  I  give  myself  to  the  Saviour  who  has  done  so  much 
for  me.  I  have  found  the  pearl  of  great  price. — His  confes- 
sion of  faith  when  a  boy  of  14, 

EXECUTIVE   MANSION. 

Washington,  May  26,  1899 • 
My  belief  embraces  the  Divinity  of 
Christ  and  a  recognition  of  Christi- 
anity as  the  mightiest  factor  in  the 
world ' s  civilization. 


^ 


rf^i^r    i^>  y^       /^ 


*This  is  the  verse  kissed  by  the  President  when  Chief- 
Justice  Fuller  administered  to  him  the  oath  of  office: 
"  Give  me  more  wisdom  and  knowledge  that  I  may  go  out 
and  come  in  before  this  people ;  for  who  can  judge  this, 
Thy  people,  that  is  so  great." — I  Chronicles,  i:  lo.  See  En- 
graving, entitled  "  The  United  States  a  Christian  Nation." 


314  A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

WILLIAM  ALEXANDER  McARTHUR, 

Member  of  British  Parliament  since  1887. 

■IVIIvIZATION,  commerce,  art,  science  and  literature 
'^^  are  all  dependent  upon  the  success  of  Christianity. 
What  we  know  as  Christians  is  what  the 
Bible  says.  Though  it  may  not  teach  us  about  sci- 
ence, it  is  the  only  book  to  teach  us  about  the  future  life. 
Think  what  Galileo  said  to  his  persecutors!  When  they 
thought  that  his  idea  of  the  planetary  system  was  unscrip- 
tural,  he  said:  "The  Bible  was  not  given  to  teach  us  how 
the  heavens  go,  but  to  teach  us  how  to  go  to  heaven.  "-^ 
Volume  /,  Report  of  Missionary  Co7iference^  London^  1888. 


JOHN    McLEAN, 

Justice  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court,   1829-1861. 
(1785-1861.) 

SIDE  from  Revelation,  darkness  rests  upon  the  world 
and  upon  the  future.  We  know  not  that  there  is  a 
God,  a  heaven,  or  a  hell,  or  any  day  of  general 
account,  when  the  wicked  and  the  righteous  shall  be 
judged.  The  Bible  has  shed  a  glorious  light  upon  the  world. 
It  shows  us  that  in  the  coming  day  we  must  answer  for  the 
deeds  done  in  the  body.  It  has  opened  to  us  a  new  and 
living  way.  The  price  paid  for  our  redemption  shows  the 
value  of  our  immortal  souls.  —  To  the  American  Bible  Society^ 
Chapel   Wood,  November  4,  1852. 


LORENZO  DE  MEDICI, 

Prince  of  Florence ;  Poet  and  Patron  of  Art  and  Literature.     (1448-1492.) 
PRAISE  TO  THE  REDEEMER. 

FOLLOW  that  fervor,  O  devoted  spirit, 

With  which  thy  Saviour's  goodness  fires  thy  breast ;  • 
Go  where  it  draws,  and  when  it  calls,  oh,  hear  it ; 
It  is  thy  Shepherd's  voice,  and  leads  to  rest.' 

In  this,  thy  new  devotedness  of  feeling. 

Suspicion,  envy,  anger,  have  no  claim  ; 
Sure  hope  is  highest  happiness  revealing. 

With  peace  and  gentleness  and  purest  fame. 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 


315 


Leave  them  to  say,  "  This  people's  meditation 
Is  vain  and  idle !  "     Sit  with  ear  and  eye 

Fixed  upon  Christ,  in  child-like  dedication, 
O  thou  inhabitant  of  Bethany ! 


GEORGE  GORDON  MEADE, 

Major  General  of  the  United  States  Army.     (1815-1872.) 


or  earth  who  could  help  him. 
the  Christian  faith. 


.HROUGH  the  kind- 
ness of  his  son,  Col- 
>C  onel  George  Meade, 
these  facts  have  been 
obtained:  ^'  Death  came  sud- 
denly, with  the  sound  of  a 
foot-fall.  There  were  a  few 
days  when  friends  waited 
on  medical  skill,  but  his 
heart  was  on  the  country 
whither  he  was  going.  He 
looked  to  the  Saviour,  who 
was  the  only  one  in  Heaven 
He  died  in  the  triumphs  of 


HUDSON  MAXIM, 

Inventor  of  the  Maxim  Gun. 

IVILIZATION  and  Christianity  go  hand  in  hand. 
Whatever  helps  to  spread  civilization  also  helps  to 
spread  the  teachings  of  our  Lord.  We  may  often 
serve  the  Captain  of  our  salvation  by  becoming  good 
soldiers.  The  Christian  armies  that  drove  back  the  invading 
Moors  rendered  their  Master  better  service  than  had  they  fled 
before  the  advancing  Turks.  Should  China  threaten  Chris- 
tendom, is  there  a  single  soldier  of  the  Cross  who  would  not 
shoulder  his  gun  and  fight  for  religion  and  home? — The 
Christian  Herald,  New  York^  October  30,  1 901. 


3l6  A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

WESLEY  MERRITT, 

Major-General  of  United  States  Army. 

,HE  principles  of  life  as  taught  in  the  Bible,  the  in- 
spired Word,  and  exemplified  in  the  matchless  Life 
of  Him  "who  spake  as  never  man  spake,"  are  the 
rules  of  moral  action  which  have  resulted  in  civiliz- 
ing the  world. 

The  testimony  of  great  men,  like  Gladstone  and  his  fellow 
statesmen;  like  Havelock  and  his  fellow  soldiers,  who  have 
made  the  teachings  of  the  Scriptures  their  rule  of  conduct  in 
life,  are  wonderful  helps  to  men  of  lesser  note  and  smaller 
intellectual  and  moral  powers.  One  example,  even  of  the 
smallest  of  these,  more  than  offsets  the  efforts  of  an  hundred 
unbelievers  in  active  opposition.  They  are  the  worthy  fol- 
lowers of  the  religion  of  the  Bible,  and  in  their  daily  lives 
interpret  the  inimitable  example  and  Divine  precepts  of  the 
Son  of  God,  our  Saviour. 


/W 


A 


JOSEPH  FRANCOIS  MICHAUD, 

French  Journalist  and  Publicist.     (1767-1839.) 

HAT  land  consecrated  by  the  presence  of  the  Saviour, 
that  mountain  whereon  He  had  expiated  our  sins  by 
His  sufferings,  that  tomb  in  which  he  deigned  to  be 
inclosed  as  a  victim  to  death,  had  all  become  the  her- 
itage of  the  impious.  God  had  no  longer  a  sanctuary  in  His 
own  city ;  the  East,  the  cradle  of  the  Christian  religion,  now 
witnessed  nothing  but  sacrilegious  pomps;  impiety  had 
spread  its  darkness  over  all  the  countries  of  Asia. — ''^ Peter ^ 
the  Hermit  of  the  Crusades ^^^  by  Joseph  Francois  Michaud. 


A  CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES.  317 

CINCINNATUS  MINER  MILLER, 

("JOAQUIN  MILLER,") 

Poet  and  Author. 
CHRIST'S  GREAT  LESSON  OF  CHARITY. 


LL  crushed  and  stone-cast  in  behavior, 
She  stood  as  a  marble  would  stand; 
Then  the  Saviour  bent  down,  and  the  Saviour 
In  silence  wrote  on  in  the  sand. 

What  wrote  He  ?     How  fondly  one  lingers 
And  questions  what  holy  command 

Fell  down  from  the  beautiful  fingers 
Of  Jesus,  like  gems  in  the  sand. 

He  arose  and  He  look'd  on  the  daughter 

Of  Eve,  like  a  delicate  flower. 
And  he  heard  the  revilers  that  brought  her — 

Men  stormy,  and  strong  as  a  tower ; 

And  He  said,  "  She  has  sinn'd  ;  let  the  blameless. 

Come  forward  and  cast  the  first  stone  !  " 
But  they,  they  fled,  shamed,  and  yet  shameless,. 
And  she,  she  stood  white  and  alone. 

Who  now  shall  accuse  and  arraign  us  ? 

What  man  shall  condemn  and  disown  ? 
Since  Christ  has  said  only  the  stainless 

Shall  cast  at  his  fellows  a  stone. 


FRANCIS  MARION.* 

Major-General  in  the  Revolution.     (1732-1795.) 

HO  can  doubt  that  God  created  us  to  be  happy,  and 
thereto  made  us  to  love  one  another?    It  is  plainly- 
written  as  the  Gospel.     The  heart   is  sometimes 
so  embittered  that  nothing   but   Divine  love  can 
sweeten  it,  so  enraged  that  devotion  can  only  becalm  it,  and 


3l8  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

^o  broken  down  that  it  takes  all  the  forces  of  heavenly  hope 
to  raise  it.  In  short,  the  religion  of  Jesus  Christ  is  the  only 
sure  and  controlling  power  over  sin.— "Z^/^  of  General  Fran- 
cis Marion,^ ^  by  General  Horry  and  Mason  L.  Weems. 

*He  was  the  perfect  idea  of  a  Christian  gentleman.— Pa^^  209,  Volume 
JV,  ''Appleton's  Cyclopcsdia  of  American  Biographyy 


HUGH  MILLER, 

Scottish  Geologist  and  Author.     (1802-1856.) 

T^JS^^  length,  in  the  fullness  of  time,  the  Messiah  comes, 
^^[qV  and  in  satisfying  the  law,  and  in  fulfilling  all  right- 
^  ^v  ^ousness,  and  in  bringing  life  and  immortality  to 
light,  abundantly  shows  forth  that  the  terminal  dy- 
nasty of  all  creation  had  been  of  old  foreordained,  ere  the 
foundations  of  the  world,  to  possess  for  its  eternal  Lord  and 
Monarch,  not  primeval  man,  created  in  the  image  of  God,  but 
Ood,  made  manifest  in  the  flesh,  in  the  form  of  primeval 
man. — Chapter  on  ^^  Geology  in  its  Bearings  on  the  Two  The- 
d)logies^''  in  ^'  Testimony  of  the  Rocks ^^''  by  Hugh  Miller. 


H. 


DUKE  OF  MARLBOROUGH, 

British  General-in-Chief;  Hero  of  Blenheim.     (1650-1722.) 

<0R  the  Christian  religion,  to  the  support  of  which,  by 
)J^j^  the  help  of  Almighty  God,  I  will  venture  my  last  drop 
of  blood. 

I  shall  conclude,  begging  you  to  consider  how  to 
"bring  me  out  of  my  difficulties  and  never  leave  my  service 
for  Jesus  Christ's  sake,  —  To  Queen  Anne ;  Volumes  i  and  2, 
' '  Memoirs  of  the  Duke  of  Marlborough^ ' '  by  William  Coxe, 

Note. — He  was  a  firm  believer  in  the  truths  of  the  Christian  Revelation, 
lience  he  was  faithful  in  his  attendance  at  Divine  service.  He  labored  to 
impress  his  troops  with  the  same  sense  of  religion  which  he  entertained. 
Previous  to  a  battle  prayers  were  offered  up  at  the  head  of  each  regiment. 
' — Page  43T,  Volume  II 0/ the  same  authority  as  above. 


A   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES.  319 

JOHN    STUART  MILL,*  ^ 

British  Philosopher  and    Political  Economist.    (1806-1873.) 

T  is  Christ,  rather  than  God,  whom  Christianity  has 
held  up  to  believers  as  the  pattern  of  perfection  for 
humanity.  It  is  the  God  incarnate — more  than  the- 
God  of  the  Jews — who,  being  idealized,  has  taken  sa 
great  and  salutary  a  hold  on  the  modern  mind.  And  what- 
ever else  may  be  taken  away  from  us  by  rational  criticism, 
Christ  is  still  left  a  unique  figure. — Page  2^^^''  Three  Es- 
says on  Religion^ ' '  by  John  Stuart  Mill, 

*At  the  time  of  his  death,  John  Stuart  Mill  became  a  Christian.  The 
physician — an  Englishman,  who  attended  him  in  his  last  illness  at  Avig- 
non, Italy — affirms  that  he  died  a  believer  in  Christ,  but  as  a  professional 
man  declined  to  give  the  details. — H.  C.  G.  Moule,  Trinity  College,  Prin- 
cipal of  Ridley  Hall,  Cambridge. 

fin  all  circumstances  of  life  in  which  you  may  be  placed  endeavor  to 
act  as  though  you  would  win  the  approval  of  Jesus  of  Nazareth. — Page 
409,  Review  of  Reviews,  October,  1894. 


RICHARD  MONCKTON  MILNES, 

C'LORD  HOUGHTON,") 

English  Statesman  and  Writer.     (1809-1885.) 


V^  A  SELECTION. 

^  yrOHAMMED'S  truth  lay  in  a  holy  book, 
-  ^yjL       Christ's  in  a  sacred  life. 

"^^ 


So  while  the  world   rolls  on  from  change  to  change, 

And  realms  of  thought  expand, 
The  letter  stands  without  expanse  or  range, 

Stiff  as  a  dead  man's  hand. 

While,  as  the  life-blood  fills  the  growing  form, 

The  spirit  Christ  has  shed 
Flows  through  the  ripening  ages  fresh  and  warm. 

More  felt  than  heard  or  read. 


320 


A   CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES. 


JOHN  MILTON, 

English  Poet.     (1608-1674  ) 


'jET    US  all  go,   every 

true  protested  Briton, 

'^  throughout  the  three 

kingdoms,  and  render 

thanks,  to   God,  the   Father 

of    light,   and     fountain    of 

heavenly  grace,  and  to  His 

Son,  Christ  the  Lord. — See 

"  Miltojt's      Animadversions 

upon  the  Reply  of  Smectym- 

niius^ 

No  man  or  angel  can 
know  how  God  would  be 
worshiped  and  served  unless  God  reveal  it:  He  hath  re- 
vealed and  taught  it  us  in  the  Holy  Scriptures  by  inspired 
ministers,  and  in  the  Gospel  by  His  own  Son,  and  His 
apostles,  with  strictest  command  to  reject  all  other  traditions 
or  additions  whatever. — Milton^ s  ^^True  Religion^  Heresy^ 
Schism ,  Toleration . ' ' 


ORMSBY  MACKNIGHT  MITCHEL, 

Astronomer;  Major-General  in  Civil  War.     (1810-1862.) 

>ET  US  turn  to  the  language  of  the  Bible;  it  furnishes 
the  only  vehicle  to  express  the  thoughts  which  over- 
\^  whelm  us,  and  we  break  out  involuntarily  in  the  lan- 
guage of  God's  own  inspiration:  "Have  ye  not  known, 
hath  it  not  been  told  to  you  from  the  beginning,  have  ye  not 
understood  from  the  foundation  of  the  earth?  It  is  He  who 
sitteth  upon  the  circle  of  the  earth,  that  stretcheth  out  the 
heavens  like  a  curtain,  and  spreadeth  them  out  as  a  tent  to 


c 


A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES.  ^  32I 

dwell  in.  Lift  up  your  eyes  on  high,  and  behold.  Who  hath 
created  all  these  things,  that  bringeth  out  their  host  by  num- 
ber? It  is  He  who  meted  out  the  heavens  with  a  span,  and 
comprehended  the  dust  of  the  earth  in  a  measure,  and 
weighed  the  mountains  in  scales  and  the  hills  in  balances. 
It  is  He  who  stretcheth  out  the  north  over  the  empty  place, 
and  hangeth  the  earth  upon  nothing.  He  telleth  the  number 
of  the  stars.  He  calleth  them  all  by  their  names." — Front 
his  book^  "  The  Astronomy  of  the  Bible. ''^ 


COUNT  HELMUTH  VON  MOLTKE, 

-    ^  Prussian  Field  Marshal.     (  1800-1890.) 

OD  comfort  and  preserve   the  other  children  if  the 
dreadful  sickness  takes  a  malignant  form.     But  God 
gives  and  takes  away,  and  we  must  be  comforted  to 
know  that  nothing  happens  but   according  to  His 
will.     I  can  give  you  no  comfort,  nor  can  anyone,  but  only 
your  religious  feelings  and  trust  in  Christ.     May  God  com- 
fort you  and  help  you  through  the  first  bitter  days! 
Your  Affectionate  and  Faithful  Brother, 

Helmuth. 
—  To  his  brother^  Adolph. 

The  memory  of  so  many  thousands  of  the  noblest  men 
of  Germany,  France,  and  Italy,  of  so  many  millions  of  de- 
vout Christians,  who  willingly  sacrificed  their  property  and 
their  lives  in  order  that  they  might  set  foot  on  the  conse- 
crated soil  of  Palestine,  drink  from  the  waters  of  the  Jordan, 
and  behold  the  city — all  have  been  hitherto  counted  in  the 
circulation  of  the  European  Cabinets  as  so  much  empty 
moonshine.  Jerusalem,  and  the  grave  of  our  Redeemer, 
Syria  and  the  fate  of  the  Christian  population,  have  been 
once  more  abandoned  to  the  infidels,  and  the  reins  of  gov- 
ernment placed  in  trembling  hands,  from  which  they  threat- 
en to  fall  every  moment. — Page  290,  Volume  /,  of  ^^■Essays^ 
Speeches^   and  Memorials  of  Field  Marshal  Von  Moltket*' 


322  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

CHARLES  DE  SECONDAT  MONTESQUIEU, 

French  Jurist  and  Philosopher.      (1689-1755.) 

HAVE  always  respected  religion ;  the  morality  of  the 
Gospel  is  the  noblest  gift  ever  bestowed  by  God  on 
man. 

We  shall  see  that  we  owe  to  Christianity,  in  gov- 
ernment, a  certain  political  law,  and  in  war  a  certain  law  of 
nations — benefits  which  human  nature  can  never  sufficiently 
acknowledge. 

The  Christian  religion  is  a  stranger  to  mere  despotic 
power.  The  mildness  so  frequently  recommended  in  the 
Gospel  is  incompatible  with  the  despotic  rage  with  which  a 
prince  punishes  his  subjects,  and  exercises  himself  in  cru- 
elty.— See  Book  XXIV  of  ^^ Spirit  of  Laws^^''  by  Charles  De 
Secondat  Mojttesquieu. 


CLEMENS  WENZESLAUS  METTERNICH. 

Prince;   Diplomat;  First  Minister  of  Austria,  1809-1848. 
(1773-1859-) 

HAVE    read   every  day  one  or  two  chapters  of  the 
Bible.      I  daily  discover  new   beauties   in   it,   and   I 
prostrate  myself  before  this  admirable  Book.     Now 
I    believe    it     and    do    not    criticise    it.  —  See    his 
Autobiography. 

MICHEL  EYQUEM  SEGNEUR  MONTAIGNE, 

French  Essayist  and  Philosopher.      (1533-1592.) 

JNCE,  by  a  particular  favor  of  the  Divine  bounty,  a 
certain  form  of  prayer  has  been  prescribed  and  dic- 
tated to  us,  word  by  word,  from  the  mouth  of  God 
Himself,  I  have  ever  been  of  the  opinion  that  we 
ought  to  have  it  in  more  frequent  use  than  we  yet  have ;  and, 
if  I  were  worthy  to  advise,  at  the  sitting  down  and  rising 
from  our  tables,  at  our  rising  and  going  to  bed,  and  in  every 
particular   action,  wherein  prayer   is   required,  I  wish  that 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  '  323 

Christians  always  made  use  of  our  Lord's  Prayer.     'Tis  the 
only  prayer  I  use  in  all  places  and  conditions. 

It  is  not  without  very  good  reason,  in  my  opinion,  that 
the  Church  interdicts  the  promiscuous,  indiscreet  and  irrev- 
erent use  of  the  holy  and  Divine  Psalms,  with  which  the  Holy 
Ghost  inspired  King  David.  We  ought  not  to  mix  God 
in  our  actions  but  with  the  highest  reverence  and  caution. 
.  .  .  Neither  is  it  decent  to  see  the  Holy  Bible,  the  rule 
of  our  worship  and  belief,  tumbled  up  and  down  the  hall  or 
kitchen.  They  were  formerly  mysterious,  but  are  now  be- 
come sports  and  recreations.  'Tis  a  Book  too  serious  and  too 
venerable  to  be  cursorily  or  lightly  turned  over.  — '''' Mon- 
taigpx'^s  Essais^^''  b.  i.  56. 


EDWIN  MARKHAM, 

Poet  and  Educator. 


[^B  has  come  !  the  skies  are  telling ; 

He  has  quit  the  glorious  dwelling ;  pierd  folk. 

And  first  the  tidings  came  to  us,  the  humble  shep- 
He  has  come  to  field  and  manger, 
And  no  more  is  God  a  Stranger :         [crooked  yoke. 
He  comes  as  Common  Man  at  home  with  cart  and 


GEORGE  MOORE, 

English  Financier  and  Philanthropist.     {1806-1876.) 

WAS  delighted  to  find  that  Charles  Dickens  was  sound 
upon  the  Gospel.  I  found  him  to  be  a  true  Christian 
without  great  profession. 

I  have  no  wavering  about  the  inspiration  of  the 
Word;  no  picking  and  choosing  amid  alleged  myths;  no 
paring  down  of  the  atonement. 

I  believe  the  Gospel.  I  love  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  I  re- 
ceive with  confidence  the  promise,  that  "  He  that  heareth 
my  word  and  believeth  Him  that  sent  Me  hath  everlasting 
life,  and  shall  not  come  unto  condemnation,  but  is  passed 
from  death  unto  life." — Extracts  from  '^The  Successful 
Merchant, ' '  by  Samuel  Smiles. 


324  A   CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES. 

LOWELL  MASON, 

Church-Music  Composer.     (1792-1872.) 

VERY  worshiper  should  unite  in  song.  With  eyes 
fixed  on  the  book,  the  words  and  tones  on  his  tongue, 
and  his  soul  lifted  up  to  our  Lord  and  Saviour,  he 
should  be  uninterruptedly  alone  with  God;  as  much 
so  in  spirit  as  if  he  were  alone,  with  his  door  shut,  offering 
prayer  to  the  Father  who  seeth  in  secret.  — ' '  Song  Worships ' ' 
by  Lowell  Mason. 


JAMES  MONTGOMERY, 

Scottish  Poet.    ( 1 771-1854.) 


A  VISIT  TO  BETHLEHEM  IN  SPIRIT. 

O  ^AITH  through  the  veil  of  flesh  can  see 
r  iQ  '^^^  ^^'^^  ^^  '^hy  divinity, 

My  Lord,  my  God,  my  Saviour ! 


THE  BIBLE. 


Is  there  a  Guide  to  show"  that  path  ? 
The  Bible.     He  alone  who  hath 

The  Bible  need  not  stray; 
Yet  he  who  hath  and  will  not  give 
That  heavenly  Guide  to  all  that  live, 

Himself  shall  lose  the  way. 


SIR  THOMAS  MORE, 

British  Philosopher  and    Statesman.     (1478-1535.) 

WOULD  think  of  nothing  else  hereafter  but  of  the 
bitter  passion  of  our  blessed  Saviour,  and  of  my  exit 
out  of  this  miserable  world.     God  only  is  the  judge 

•  of  the  secrets  of  our  hearts. — I^rom  ^'' Notes  of  his 
Life ^^^ page  109,  by  Sir  Thomas  More. 


A  CLOUD  OF  WITNESSES. 

ALFRED  THAYER  MAHAN, 

Captain  in  the  United  States  Navy;  Author. 

PON  the  Bible  my  life  rests  for  whatsoever  is  good 
and  strong.  Convinced  that  Christ  is  the  Son  of 
God,  in  the  deepest  sense  attributed  to  those  words, 
I  not  only  find  in  this  belief  all  the  power  of  my 
life,  but,  in  the  account  of  His  personality,  an  intellectual 
-satisfaction  that  surpasses  any  other  in  its  inexhaustible  fresh- 
ness, daily  renewing  my  strength,  and  throwing  an  ever- 
increasing  light  upon  the  problems  and  difficulties  of  life. 
It  is  this  intellectual  satisfaction  that  most  impresses  me; 
that  the  teaching  of  Jesus  Christ  contains  a  philosophy  of  life 
in  fullest  accord  with  experience,  and  also  inexhaustible,  in 
that  its  revelation  is  continuous.  While  the  faith  in  His 
teaching  thus  meets  all  my  mental  exigencies,  I  in  no  way 
derogate  from  its  supernatural  sanctions.  He  is  to  me  one 
who  speaks  with  authority  no  less  than  Divine,  to  whom  I 
submit  where  I  do  not  understand. 


>5^ 


THOMAS  MOORE. 

Irish  Poet.     (1779-1852.) 
LORD,  WHO  SHALL  BEAR  THAT  DAY. 

)ORD,  who  shall  bear  that  day,  so  dread,  so  splendid. 


tWhen  we  shall  see  Thy  angel  hovering  o'er 
^,  This  sinful  world,  with  hand  to  Heaven  extended. 

And  hear  him  swear  by  Thee  that  time's  no  more  ? 
When  earth  shall  feel  Thy  fast  consuming  ray— 
Who,  mighty  God,  oh,  who  shall  bear  that  day  ? 

When  through  the  world  thy  awful  call  hath  sounded- 
"  Wake,  all  ye  dead,  to  judgment  wake,  ye  dead  !  " 

And  from  the  clouds,  by  seraphs'  eyes  surrounded. 
The  Saviour  shall  put  forth  His  radiant  head  ; 

While  earth  and  Heaven  before  Him  pass  away — 
Who,  mighty  God,  oh,  who  shall  bear  that  day? 


326  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

SAMUEL  MORLEY, 

English  Merchant  and  Philanthropist.     (1809-1886.) 

.HE  Bible  will  make  its  own  way,  and  do  its  own 
work.  It  is  its  own  best  witness.  Let  us  hold  fast 
then  by  the  Bible,  with  no  wavering  faith,  but  man- 
fully stand  up  for  it  in  the  family,  in  the  pulpit,  and 
in  the  pew.  It  was  never  more  powerful  than  at  the  present 
time  ;  never  more  popular  among  the  common  people.  Faith 
in  His  Word  is  what  God  is  teaching  us  as  our  first  duty. 

Book  of  God  and  the  God  of  books  !  The  Bible  is  the 
light  and  life  of  our  dwelling.  The  home-life  of  this  coun- 
try owes  everything  that  is  pure  and  true  to  the  Word  of 
God.  No  false  religion  fosters  the  virtues  of  a  happy  fire- 
side. I  believe  that  in  putting  into  missionary  hands  the 
Bible,  you  give  the  key  by  which  the  dark  places  of  the 
earth  may  be  opened  to  the  light.  The  best  evidence  of  the 
Divine  origin  of  the  Bible  is  the  life  of  those  who  are  living 
up  to  its  precepts. — Page  458  of  his  Life^  by  Hodder. 


ELIJAH  A.  MORSE, 

C\   rj  Congressman  and  Manufacturer. 


OU  ask  my  personal  opinion  of  Christ  and  the  Bible. 


-\\   I  answer  that  all  other  books  may  be  ten  thousand 


lanterns,  but  they   are  not  the   sun.     One  of  my 
^  illustrious   and    distinguished   predecessors  in    the 

Congress  of  the  United  States,  John  Quincy  Adams,  "  the 
old  man  eloquent,"  who,  after  being  President  of  the  United 
States,  said,  as  he  drew  near  the  close  of  his  active  career, 
that  it  had  been  his  habit  through  life  to  spend  an  hour 
each  day  in  the  reading  of  the  Holy  Scriptures.  We  grad- 
uate in  other  studies,  in  Arithmetic,  Geography,  History, 
Philosophy,  and  Science,  but  never  in  this  Book,  the  in- 
spired truths  of  which  shine  on  with  an  unchanging  lustre. 
You   ask:    ''What  think   ye   of  Christ?"     What  a  ring   is 


A    CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES.  327 

from  which  the  diamond  has  been  lost ;  what  the  clothes  of 
a  child  are  to  a  child  who  is  dead,  that  is  the  Bible  without 
Christ,  or  a  Christless  life,    ^-v  ^  ^ 


SAMUEL  FINLEY  BREESE  MORSE, 

Inventor  of  the  Telegraph.     (1791-1872.) 

HE  nearer  I  approach  to  the  end  of  my  pilgrimage 
the  clearer  is  the  evidence  of  the  Divine  origin  of  the 
Bible,  the  grandeur  and  sublimity  of  God's  remedy 
for  fallen  man  are  more  appreciated,  and  the  future 
is  illuminated  with  hope  and  joy.  —  To  his  grandson^  Dres- 
den, 1868. 

It  can  not  be  long  before  all  this  will  be  over.  I  feel  con- 
stantly the  necessity  of  letting  go  of  the  world  and  taking  a 
stronger  hold  on  heaven.  The  Saviour  daily  seems  more 
precious  to  me;  His  love.  His  atonement  and  His  Divine 
power  are  themes  which  occupy  my  mind  through  the  wake- 
ful hours  of  night.  —  To  his  brother,  Paris,  1868.  Pages 
734>  735)  "^?/^  of  Samuel  F.  B.  Morse,^^  by  Samuel  I. 
Prime. 


A.  J.  McLAUREN, 

Governor  of  Mississippi. 


BELIEVE  in  the  Trinity,  God  the  Father,  God  the 
Son,  and  God  the  Holy  Spirit.  I  believe  in  the 
Bible  as  the  inspired  Word  of  God. 


LEVI  PARSONS  MORTON, 

Congressman;  Ambassador  to  France;  Vice-President 
United  States. 

DECLARE  for  orthodox  Christianity  and  its  Divine 


328  A   CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

SIR   DONALD  FRIELL  McLEOD, 

Late  Lieutenant-Governor  of  the  Punjab.     (1810-1871.) 

Christians,  since  the  days  of  Christ,  have  been  eager 
to  inquire  the  necessity  of  the  second  birth.  Our 
^-Q^  Saviour  repeated  this  doctrine  of  regeneration  three 
times  almost  in  the  same  breath:  **Ye  must  be  born 
again!"  .  .  .  Remember,  however,  that  no  confidence 
is  placed  in  the  merits  of  our  action ;  the  conviction  arises 
solely  from  having  placed  entire  trust  in  our  Redeemer. — 
Page  124,"  Twelve  Indian  Statesmen^ ' '  by  George  Smith, 


GEORGE  PERKINS  MORRIS, 

Poet  and  Journalist.    (1802-1864.) 


THY  WILL  BE  DONE. 


i-^ 

(T^IVER  of  all !    for  every  good 
^y        In  the  Redeemer  came ; 


For  raiment,  shelter,  and  for  food 
I  thank  Thee  in  His  name. 

Father,  and  Son,  and  Holy  Ghost! 

Thou  glorious  three  in  one! 
Thou  knowest  best  what  I  need  most, 

And  let  Thy  will  be  done. 

MY  BIBLE. 

Thou  truest  friend  man  ever  knew, 

Thy  constancy  I've  tried; 
When  all  were  false  I  found  thee  true, 

My  counsellor  and  guide. 
The  mines  of  earth  no  treasures  give 

That  could  this  volume  buy; 
In  teaching  me  the  way  to  live, 

It  taught  me  how  to  die  ! 


W11.UAM  THE  Conqueror,  King  of  England  (1027- 
1087):  May  her  holy  intercession  reconcile  me  to  the  dear 
Son,  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ. — Last  words. 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  329 

SIR  LEWIS  MORRIS, 

British  Poet. 

;IS  nigh  two  thousand  years 

Since  came  the  Prince  of  Peace ; 
Return  Thou,  calm  our  fears, 

Make  strife  and  war  to  cease. 
Thick  clouds  today  of  doubt 
Obscure  our  faithful  sight, 
Shine,  Blessed  Sun,  shine  out, 
The  storms  of  Passion  still. 
Again,  O  hidden  Well, 
The  wintry  earth  fulfill 
With  Peace  and  Light. 


Christmas,  1898. 


<: 


tAATLa    iALt^rt^ 


HENRY  MORTON, 

President  of  Stevens  College  of  Technology. 

.HE  past  conflicts  of  science  and  religion  have  been 
fought  over  errors  on  one  side  or  the  other  arising; 
from  dogmatism  on  each  side  as  to  matters  outside  its 
own  range  of  knowledge,  and  in  place  of  an  inevit- 
able conflict  in  the  future  we  have  reason  to  look  for  a  grad- 
ually  developed  and  perfect  agreement  as  each  other  comes 
nearer  the  truth.  The  dream  of  poets,  the  lesson  of  priest 
and  prophet,  is  confirmed  in  the  light  of  modern  knowledge; 
and  as  we  gird  ourselves  for  the  work  of  life  we  may  look 
forward  to  the  time  when  in  the  truest  sense  the  kingdoms  of 
this  world  shall  become  the  kingdoms  of  Christ,  and  He  shall 
reign  forever  and  ever.  King  of  kings,  and  Lord  of  lords. 


^^^um(  >  S\iVW 


330  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

OLIVER  PERRY  MORTON, 

Statesman  ;  Indiana  War  Governor.     (1823-1877.) 

kOK  the  sympathy  expressed  for  me  by  the  people  at 
home,  I  am  most  grateful,  and  you  are  right  when  you 
say  that  I  deeply  appreciate  the  prayers  which  have 
been  offered  up  by  the  praying  friends  whom  I  have 
left  behind.  I  am  no  infidel.  I  was  educated  by  pious 
grandparents  to  a  professed  belief  in  Christianity,  and  was 
taught  to  reverence  holy  things.  And  I  have  never  fallen 
into  disbelief,  nor  have  I  been  the  immoral  man  some  would 
have  the  world  believe.  The  Christian  gentleman  is  the 
noblest  and  loveliest  character  on  earth,  for  which  I  entertain 
the  highest  respect  and  love.  I  recognize  the  hand  of  Provi- 
dence in  all  the  affairs  of  men,  and  believe  there  is  a  Divine 
economy  which  regulates  the  lives  and  conduct  of  nations. 
— Pages  184  and  185  <?/'"  Life  and  Character  of  Oliver  Perry 
Morton^''^  by  Charles  M.  Walker. 


JOHN  LOTHROP  MOTLEY, 

Historian  and  Diplomat.      ,  1814-1877.) 

.HE  following  is  an  extract  from  a  letter  to  Dean  Stan- 
ley: ''  How  glad  I  am  that  your  mind  and  body  are 
both  vigorous  and  fresh,  notwithstanding  the  great 
calamity  which  God  has  sent  upon  you.  .  .  .  The 
delicate  and  masterly  manner  in  which  you  have  traced  out 
the  connection  between  the  ideas  of  the  one  invisible  God 
revealing  Himself  at  many  intervals  of  time  and  space,  and 
through  different  races,  to  the  highest  of  what  we  call  human 
intellect ;  and  the  idea  of  a  future  life  unknown  and  unim- 
aginable conditions,  is  to  me  most  striking.  Intense  love 
seems  to  me  to  annihilate  death,  and  love  is  the  foundation 
of  the  Christian  revelation." — Vol.  11  of  his  correspondence. 
These  lines  appear  on  the  stone  where  all  that  is  mortal 
.rests : 


PRESIDENTS  AND 

PROFESSORS  OF 

UNIVERSITIES. 

Franklin  Carter, 

Merrill  E.  Gates, 

Page  7s- 

Page  167. 

Edward  Olney, 

Lewis  Swift, 

Page  344. 

Page  441. 

David  S.  Jordan, 

Joseph  Le  Conte, 

Page  260. 

Page  Tj8. 

A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  33! 

JOHN  LOTHROP  MOTLEY, 
Born  at  Dorchester,  Mass.,  April  15,  18 14. 
Died  near  Dorchester,  Dorset,  May  29,  1877. 
In  God  is  light,  and  in  Him  is  no  darkness  at  all." 


,    GEORGE  F.  MOSHER, 

President  of  Hillsdale  College. 

BELIEVE  that  Jesus  Christ  came  from  God  to  teach 
the  world  the  way  to  God,  and  that  no  way  leads 
•  there  so  directly  as  the  way  He  has  pointed  out  in?. 
the  Inspired  Word.  I  believe  that  He  was  the  great- 
est Philosopher,  and  His  religion  is  the  truest  philosophy 
that  the  world  has  ever  seen,  or  will  ever  see. 


VALENTINE  MOTT, 

Physician  and  Surgeon.     (1785-1865.) 

^F  my  life  shall  be  taken  suddenly,  as  I  believe  it  wilf^ 
my    family    may  know    that    my  implicit    faith    and 
hope  is  in  a  merciful  Redeemer,  who  is  the  Resurrec- 
tion  and  the  Life.    Amen  and  Amen. — A  memorandum^ 
found  among  his  private  papers  after  death. 

What  a  span  of  life  I  have  attained  to !  How  thankful  I 
am,  and  ought  to  be,  for  so  great  a  Divine  favor !  My  desire 
is  to  live  that  I  may  worship  and  enjoy,  for  the  balance  of 
my  life,  a  feeling  of  the  presence  of  my  Almighty  Father, 
and  that  through  my  Lord  and  Saviour  I  may  be  brought  to 
partake  of  a  small  portion  of  His  everlasting  happiness.  If 
for  no  temporary  object  my  life  has  been  spared,  one  thing  I 
am  sure  of — that  I  have  lived  to  be  changed  from  a  sceptic  to 
a  full  believer  in  the  Divinity  of  my  Saviour.  What  an  un- 
speakable felicity  awaits  those  who  put  their  trust  in  Him^ 
who  is  truly  our  Lord  and  Saviour. — Page  27  in  ^''Eulogy  on 
the  late  Valentine  Mott^'  by  A.  C.  Post. 


332 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


WOLFGANG  AMADEUS  MOZART, 

German  Musical  Composer.     (1756-1791.) 

^T  is  a  great 

consolation 

for    me    to 

remember 
that  the  Lord,  to 
whom  I  had  drawn 
near  in  humble  and 
child-like  faith, 
has  suffered  and 
died  for  me,  and 
that  He  will  look 
on  me  in  love  and 
compassion. 

To  a  friend  he 
writes  from  Paris, 
July  3,  1778: 
'''Mourn  with  me! 
This  has  been  the 

most  melancholy  day  of  my  life ;  I  am  now  writing  at  two 
o'clock  in  the  morning.  I  must  tell  you  that  my  mother, 
my  darling  mother,  is  no  more.  God  has  called  her  to  Him- 
self; I  clearly  see  that  it  was  His  will  to  take  her  from  us, 
and  I  must  learn  to  submit  to  the  will  of  God.  The  Lord 
giveth  and  the  Lord  taketh  away.  ...  I  am  fully  con- 
vinced that  God  has  so  ordained  it.  All  I  would  ask  of  you 
at  present  is,  to  act  the  part  of  a  true  friend,  by  preparing 
father  by  degrees  for  this  sad  intelligence.  .  .  .  May 
God  give  him  strength  and  courage!  My  dear  friend,  I  am 
consoled  not  only  now,  but  I  have  been  for  some  time  past. 
By  the  mercy  of  God,  I  have  borne  it  with  all  firmness  and 
-composure.  When  the  danger  became  imminent,  I  prayed 
my  heavenly  Father  for  only  two  things — a  happy  death  for 
imy  mother,  and  strength  and  courage  for  myself,  and  our 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  333 

gracious  God  neard  my  prayer,  and  conferred  those  two 
boons  fully  upon  me. — Pages  210,  211,  Volume  /,  and  275, 
276,  Volume  II, ''  The  Letters  of  Wolfgang  Amadeus  Mozart,^'' 
translated  by  Lady  Wallace. 


CHARLES  FORBES  DE  MONTALEMBERT, 

French  Orator,  Statesman  and  Historian.     (1810-1870.) 

PLACE  myself  on  the  side  of  the  defenders  of  religion, 
whoever  they  may  be.  I  desire  to  be  counted  with 
those  who  have  the  Cross  of  Christ  for  their  standard.^ 
Postscript :  '  ^  Memoir  of  Comte  De  Montalembert, 
Peer  of  France^^^  by  Mrs.  Oliphant. 


FRIEDERICH  MAX  MULLER, 

Professor  of  German- English  Sanscrit,  University  of 
Oxford. 

>HUS  only  can  we  repeat  the  words,  "  In  the  begin- 
ning was  the  Word,  and  the  Word  became  flesh,"  not 
as  thoughtless  repeaters,  but  as  honest  thinkers  and 
believers.  The  first  sentence,  *'  In  the  beginning 
was  the  Word,"  requires  thought,  and  thought  only;  the 
second,  ''and  the  Logos  became  flesh,"  requires  faith — faith 
such  as  those  who  knew  Jesus  had  in  Jesus. — Page  936,  Vol- 
ume /,  "  World\s  Parlia^nent  of  Religions,^''  edited  by  the  Rev, 
fohn  Henry  Barrows. 

They  all  say  (speaking  of  the  Asiatics)  that  salvation  must 
be  bought  with  a  price,  and  that  the  sole  price  must  be  our 
own  works  and  deservings.  Our  own  Bible,  our  sacred  Book 
from  the  East,  is  from  beginning  to  end  a  protest  against  this 
doctrine.  Good  works  are  indeed  enjoined  upon  us  in  that 
Book,  but  they  are  the  outcome  of  a  grateful  heart — the  fruits 
of  our  faith.  They  are  never  the  ransom-money  of  the  true 
disciple  of  Christ.  Let  us  teach  Hindoos,  Buddhists,  Mo- 
hammedans that  there  is  only  one  sacred  Book  of  the  East 


334  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

that  can  be  their  mainstay  in  that  awful  hour  when  they 
shall  pass  alone  into  the  unseen  world.  It  is  the  sacred  Book 
which  contains  that  faithful  saying,  worthy  to  be  received  of 
all  men,  women,  and  children,  that  Christ  Jesus  came  into 
the  world  to  save  sinners. — From  an  Address  before  the  Brit- 
ish  and  Foreign  Bible  Society. 


SIR  WILLIAM   MUIR, 

Principal  of  the  Universe  of  Edinburg. 

<OME  writers  have  gone  so  far  as  to  hold  that  the 
religion  of  Mahomet  may  be  suited  to  certain  por- 
tions of  mankind,  as  if  the  faith  of  Jesus  might 
peaceably  divide  with  the  world.  With  the  believer 
who  holds  the  Gospel  to  be  "good  tidings  of  great  joy  to  all 
people,  *'  such  a  notion  is  untenable  and  altogether  unintel- 
ligible. The  followers  of  Mahomet  have  no  knowledge  of 
God  as  a  Father;  still  less  have  they  knowledge  of  Him  as 
"Our  Father,"  the  God  and  Father  of  our  lyord  Jesus  Christ. 
They  acknowledge,  indeed,  that  Jesus  was  a  true  prophet 
sent  of  God,  but  they  deny  his  crucifixion  and  death,  and 
they  know  nothing  of  the  power  of  His  resurrection.  To 
those  who  have  found  redemption  in  these  distinctive  truths 
of  the  Christian  faith,  it  may  be  allowed  to  mourn  over  the 
lands  in  which  the  light  of  the  Gospel  has  been  quenched, 
and  these  blessings  blotted  out  by  the  material  forces  of 
Islam. — ''''-The  Rise  and  Decline  of  Islani^''^  by  Sir  William 
Muir. 

HENRY  WILLIAM  MASSINGHAM, 

Editor-in-Chief  of  the  Daily  Chronicle,   London. 

HAVE  to  say  that  I  regard  the  Holy  Bible  as  the  best 
Book  in  the  world,  and  the  birth,  crucifixion,  and 
resurrection  of  Jesus  Christ  as  the  most  important 
events  that  have  ever  happened  in  the  world. 


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A    CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES.  335 

SIR  JOHN  MILLAIS, 

C-\y^         Late  President  of  the  Royal  Academy.     (1829-1896.) 

'^  UR  Saviour  was  stoned  from  the  point  of  view  of  the 
common  people  who  saw  nothing  of  His  divinity — 
r>NS^  they  saw  Him  only  as  an  agitator. 

If  I  wanted  to  paint  a  popular  picture,  I  would 
paint  an  old  man  in  spectacles,  reading  the  Holy  Word  by 
the  fireside,  and  the  fire  would  be  reflected  on  his  spectacles. 
And  I  would  paint  a  tear,  and  the  fire  would  be  reflected  on 
the  tear. — See  ''' Millais  and  His  Works^^^  by  M. H. Spielman. 


BARTOLME   ESTEBAN  MURILLO, 

Spanish  Painter.     (1618-1682.) 

EING  infirm  in  body  but  sound  in  will,  and  in  all  de. 
liberate  judgment  and  natural  understanding,  full 
and  good  memory,  such  as  God  our  Lord  vouchsafed 
to  give  me,  and  believing,  as  I  do,  firmly  and  truly 
in  the  Divine  mystery  of  the  Holy  Trinity,  Father,  Son,  and 
Holy  Ghost,  three  persons  really  distinct  and  yet  one  true 
God  ...  I  offer  and  commit  my  soul  to  God  our  Lord, 
who  created  and  redeemed  it  with  the  infinite  price  of  His 
blood,  and  whom  I  humbly  supplicate  to  pardon  it  and  bear 
it  in  peace  to  glory. — Page  96,  '^  Artist  Biographers,^^ 


FRANCIS  MURPHY, 

Temperance  Reformer. 

^O  Christ  sees  His  face  in  yours, if  you  will  but  believe 
in  Him ;  and  wherever  you  may  be,  or  however  de- 
graded. He,  the  once  crucified,  oppressed  and  bleed- 
ing, stands  ready  to  fold  you  in  His  arms.  Yea,  He 
stands  and  knocks  at  the  door  of  your  heart  until  His  locks 
are  wet  with  the  dew  of  the  night. — Page  222,  '*  The  True 
Path  ;  or^  the  Murphy  Moveme^tt  and  Gospel  Temper arice^ ' ' 
by  J.  Samuel  Vandersloot. 


336  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

JOHANNES  VON  MULLER. 

Swiss  Historian.     (1752-1809.) 

DO  not  know  why,  two  months  ago,  I  took  it  into  my 
head  to  read  the  New  Testament,  before  my  studies 
had  advanced  to  the  age  in  which  it  was  written.  I 
had  not  read  it  for  many  years,  and  was  prejudiced 
against  it  before  I  took  it  in  hand.  I  have  read  no  book  on 
this  subject,  but  hitherto  in  all  my  study  of  the  ancient  times 
I  have  always  felt  the  want  of  something,  and  it  was  not 
until  I  knew  our  Lord  that  it  was  all  clear  to  me ;  with  Him 
there  is  nothing  which  I  am  not  able  to  solve.  If  this  relig- 
ion is  not  Divine,  I  understand  nothing  at  all. — ^^Sdmmtliche 
Werke^^'^  15,  315,  by  Johannes  von  Miiller.  ^ 


ALEXANDER  MURRAY, 

Scottish  Philologist.     (1775-1813.) 

kATHER  gave  me  a  small  Psalm-Book,  for  which  I 
abandoned  the  Catechism,  which  I  did  not  like,  and 
which  I  tore  in  two  pieces,  and  concealed  in  the  hole 
of  a  dyke.  I  soon  got  many  Psalms  by  memory,  and 
longed  for  a  new  book.  Here  difficulties,  rose.  The  Bible, 
used  every  night  in  the  family,  I  was  not  permitted  to  open 
or  touch.  The  rest  of  the  books  were  put  up  in  chests.  I 
at  length  got  at  a  New  Testament,  and  read  the  historical 
parts  with  great  curiosity  and  ardor.  But  I  longed  to  read 
the  Bible,  which  seemed  to  me  a  much  more  pleasant  Book; 
and  I  actually  went  to  where  I  knew  an  old  loose-leaved 
Bible  lay,  and  carried  it  away  by  piecemeal.  I  perfectly 
remember  the  strange  pleasure  I  felt  in  reading  the  histo- 
ries of  Abraham  and  David.  I  liked  mournful  narratives; 
and  greatly  admired  Jeremiah,  Ezekiel,  and  the  Lamenta- 
tions. I  pored  over  those  pieces  of  the  Bible  for  many 
months,  and  as  I  read  constantly  and  remembered  well,  I 
soon  astonished  all  our  honest  neighbors  with  the  large  pas- 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  337 

sages  of  Scripture  I  repeated  before  them.  I  have  forgot 
too  much  of  my  biblical  knowledge,  but  I  can  still  rehearse 
all  the  names  of  the  Patriarchs  from  Adam  to  our  Saviour, 
and  various  other  narratives  seldom  committed  to  memory. — 
Page  363,  ^''Library  of  Entertaining  Knowledge?'' 


LINDLEY  MURRAY, 

Educator  and    Author.     (1745-1826.) 


^-V^  OD  has  freely   offered    to  pardon   all  our   sins,  and 
V^^  receive  us  into  favor,   if  we   sincerely  repent,   and 
\'^  unfeignedly  believe  on  the  Lord   Jesus  Christ,  the 
Saviour  of  the  world.     In    the   Revelation    of    His 
will  to  mankind,  the  great  design,  conspicuous  throughout, 
is  to  manifest  His  love  toward  our  fallen  race,  and  to  accom- 
plish our  salvation. — See  introduction  to '"''Power  of  Relig- 
ion^^^  by  Linaley  Murraw  aicthor  of  an  English  Grammar. 


WILLIAM  MURRAY, 

Earl  of  Mansfield ;  Lord  Chief-Justice  of  England. 
(1705-1793.) 

HENEVER  it  shall  please  Almighty  God  to  call 
me  to  that  state  to  which,  of  all  I  now  enjoy,  I  can 
carry  one,  the  satisfaction  of  my  own  conscience, 
and  a  full  reliance  upon  His  mercy  through  Jesus 

Christ. — A  clause  in  his  will.    See  ^^  Lives  of  the  Chief  Justices 

of  England^''''  by  Lord  Campbell. 


THE  MARQUIS  OF  NORTHAMPTON, 

British  Philanthropist;   President  of  the  T?agged  School  Union  and  Shaf- 
tesbury Society;    President  of  the  British  and 
Foreign  Bible  Society. 

E  are  one  year  nearer  that  glorious  moment  when 

our  blessed  Lord  shall  come  again  to  claim  His 

own.      May  we  always  be    His  faithful  servants 

while  on  earth,   and  may  the  second  coming  of 

Jesus  Christ,  our  Saviour,  find  us  all  watching  and  praying. 


338  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

SIR  ISAAC  NEWTON, 

English  Philosopher  and  Mathematician.     (1642-1727.) 

.HERE  is  one  God,  the 
Father,  ever-living,  om- 
nipresent, omniscient,  al- 
mighty, the  Maker  of 
heaven  and  earth,  and  one  Me- 
diator between  God  and  man, 
the  man  Christ  Jesus.  .  .  . 
To  us  there  is  but  one  God, 
the  Father,  of  whom  are  all 
things,  and  one  Lord  Jesus 
Christ,  by  whom  are  all  things, 
and  we  by  Him.  That  is,  we 
are  to  worship  the  Father 
alone  as  God  Almighty,  and 
Jesus  alone  as  the  Lord,  the 
Messiah,  the  Great  King,  the  Lamb  of  God  who  was  slain, 
and  hath  redeemed  us  with  His  blood,  and  made  us  kings 
and  priests. — See  Sir  David  Brewster^ s  '-''Memoirs  of  the  Life^ 
Writing s^  and  Discoveries  of  Sir  Isaac  Newton ^ 

Though  the  system  of  revealed  truth  which  this  Book 
contains  is,  like  that  of  the  universe,  concealed  from  com- 
mon observation,  yet  the  labors  of  the  centuries  have  estab- 
lished its  Divine  origin.  —  ^^Life  of  Sir  Isaac  Newton^'*'' 
Volume  VI  of  '  ^  Short  Biographies  of  the  People. '  \ 


SIR  CHARLES  NAPIER, 

British  Major-General.     (1782-1853.) 

LOOK  forward  to  the  time  when  men  will  think  only 
of  acting  right  in  the  eyes  of  God,  for  then  Christ  will 
rule  the  world.  What  result  will  follow  this  utter  de- 
feat of  evil,  God  in  heaven  only  knows,  but  the  work 
will  be  Christ's  work,  when  He  will  come  to  reign  over  us. — 
Page  212,*'  Sir  Charles  Napier, ' '  by  Col.  Sir  W.  P.  Butler. 


A   CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES.  339 

JOHN  NAPIER, 

Scottish  Inventor  of  Logarithms.     (1550-1617.) 

^ROM  henceforth  I  determined  with  myself  (by  the  as- 
sistance of  God's  Spirit)  to  employ  my  studies  and 
diligence  to  search  out  the  remaining  mysteries  of 
that  Holy  Book,  and  to  this  hour  (praise  be  to  the 
Lord)  I  have  been  doing  it  at  all  such  times  as  conven- 
iently I  might  have  occasion. — ''  To  the  Godly  and  Christian 
Reader ^^^  in  the  Prefix  to  his  "  Plane  Discovery.''^ 


NICHOLAS  W 

Czar  of  Russia. 


AM  a  decided  Christian ;  but  my  belief  in  the  Saviour 
of  the  world  does  not  entitle  me  to  persecute  others 
on  account  of  their  religious  convictions. — Special 
Telegram  to  the  Associated  Press  of  the  United  States, 
May  my  heart  be  in  Thy  hand,  to  accomplish  all  that  is 
to  the  profit  of  the  people  committed  to  my  charge,  and  is  to 
Thy  glory,  that  so  in  the  day  of  judgment  I  may  give  Thee 
account  of  my  stewardship  without  blame,  through  the  grace 
and  mercy  of  Thy  Son,  who  was  once  crucified  for  me,  to 
whom  be  all  honor  and  glory  with  Thee  and  the  Holy  Ghost. 
Amen. — FroTn  the  Czar^s  Coronation  Prayer^  May  25,  1896. 


BARTHOLD  GEORG  NIEBUHR, 

German  Historian  and  Philologist.    (1776-1831.) 

^N  my  opinion  he  is  not  a  Christian  who  does  not  receive 
the  historical  facts  of  Christ's  life  in  their  literal  ac- 
ceptance with  all  their  miracles,  as  equally  authentic 
with  any  event  in  history;  .  .  .  who  does  not 
consider  every  doctrine  and  precept  of  the  New  Testa- 
ment as  undoubted  Divine  Revelation  in  the  sense  of 
Christians  of  the  first  century.  Moreover,  a  Christianity  after 
that  of  the  modern  philosophers  and  pantheists,  without  a  per- 
sonal God,  without  immortality,  without  historical  faith,  is 
no  Christianity  at  all  to  mc. — Ancie^tt  History^  Vol.    I. 


340  A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

CHARLES  NORDHOFF, 

Journalist  and  Author. 

HE  Bible  whitewashes  nobody.  When  you  hear  a 
person  speak  slightly  or  contemptuously  of  the  Bible 
you  may  safely  set  him  down  as  an  ignoramus. 

Jesus  brought  "life  and  immortality  to  light.'- 
His  life,  His  doctrines,  His  death  and  His  resurrection  have 
more  profoundly  and  permanently  affected  human  thought 
and  human  society  than  all  the  conquerors  and  philosophers 
who  ever  lived. — Extracts  from  "  God  and  the  Future  Life^^'' 
by  Charles  Nordhoff. 


JOHN  NEAL, 

Author.     (1793- 1876.) 


AD  I  not  been  remonstrated  with  by  a  devout  and 
humble  Christian  mother,  I  might  never  have  aban- 
doned the  habit  of  cursing  and  swearing  ;  never  have 
gone  twice  on  Sunday  to  Church,  and  never  have  be- 
come what  I  profess  to  be  now — a  follower  of  the  meek  and 
lowly  Jesus. — Page  113  of  ''''Wandering  Recollections  of  a 
Somewhat  Busy  Life^ 


THE  RIGHT  HONORABLE  THE   EARL  OF 
NORTHBROOK, 

Late  Viceroy  and  Governor-General  of  India. 

^0-DAY  we  have  not  to  consider  any  political  ques- 
tion, but  what  w^e  Christian  men   and   women  have 
been  able  to  do  in  that  country  to  spread  the  Gospel 
of  Christ  among  the  fellow  subjects  of  our  Queen.     . 
.     I  should  not  be  doing  justice  if  I  did  not  remind  all 
those  present  that  missionaries  in  India  have  always  derived 
the  most  active  aid  from  some  of  the  ablest  and   most  dis- 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  34I 

tinguished  men  in  the  service  of  the  East  India  Company,  and 
of  the  Crown  of  India,  both  civilian  and  military.  Among 
civilians  what  greater  name  is  there  than  that  of  John  Law- 
rence, who  always,  during  the  whole  of  his  life,  supported 
missionaries  on  every  opportunity !  He  was  succeeded  in 
the  government  of  the  Punjab  by  Sir  Robert  Montgomery, 
an  active  supporter  of  missions.  After  him  came  Sir  Donald 
McLeod,  a  man  who,  on  all  occasions,  showed  his  sympathy 
with  missionary  undertakings.  You  all  know  that  Sir 
William  Muir,  when  Governor  of  the  Northwestern  Pro- 
vinces, openly  showed  his  support  of  Christian  Missions; 
and  Sir  Charles  Aitcheson,  who  occupied  the  post  of  Lieu- 
tenant General  of  the  Punjab,  and  who  is  now  one  of  the 
members  of  the  Viceroy's  Council,  has  always  been  vitally 
interested  in  missions.  Then  there  are  Sir  Richard  Temple^ 
Sir  Richard  Thompson,  Sir  Charles  Bernard,  Henry  C. 
Tucker,  and  others.  Then  there  is  the  almost  equally  distin- 
guished brother  of  Lord  Lawrence,  Henry  Lawrence;  then 
there  were  Herbert  Edwardes,  Reynell  Taylor,  Henry  Have- 
lock,  and^  in  fact  nearly  all  the  men  who  came  forward  at  the 
time  of  the  Mutiny^  and  through  whose  exertions  the  British 
Empire  in  India  was  preserved.  NOT  ONE  OF  THEM 
SHRANK  UPON  ANY  OCCASION  FROM  SUPPORT- 
ING THE  CAUSE  OF  MISSIONS  IN  V^X^IK.— Pages  189 
and  190,  Volume  /,  '''Report  of  the  Missionary  Conferetice^  '* 
London^  1888. 


This  interesting  fact  is  apropos  here  :  "  Mr.  Darwin  "  (says  Sir  James 
Sullivan)  "  had  often  expressed  to  me  the  conviction  that  it  was  utterly- 
useless  to  send  missionaries  to  such  savages  as  the  Fuegians.  I  had  always 
replied  that  I  did  not  believe  any  human  beings  existed  too  low  to  compre- 
hend the  simple  message  of  the  Gospel  of  Christ,  After  many  years  he 
wrote  me  that  the  recent  account  of  the  mission  showed  that  he  had  been 
wrong  and  I  right.  He  requested  me  to  forward  to  the  Society  an  enclosed 
cheque  for  five  pounds,  as  a  testimony  of  his  interest  in  their  good  work. 
This  subscription  he  continued  till  his  death."— Z?arz£/m'j  Life,  Vol.  III^ 
pp.  127,  128. 


342  A  CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

WILLIAM  AUGUSTUS  NEWELL, 

Qi     ^       Founder  of  the  United  States  Life-Saving  Service. 

r  I^Y  religious  views  are  fully  in  accord  with  the  most 
^\.  decided  orthodoxy  of  the  day  as  to  the  inspiration  of 
^^^  the  Scriptures  and  the  Divinity  of  our  Redeemer. 

"  Fighting  of  fire  and  shipwreck,  saving  men, 

Is  heroism  unto  God's  own  will ; 
Though  they  that  do  it  may  not- know  to  boast. 
Who  casts  the  life-line  to  the  drowning  serves 

The  One  who  bade  the  troubled  sea  be  still. 
God  bless  the  brave  life-savers  on  our  coast  !'L 


QJ 


CYRUS  NORTHROP, 

President  of  the  University  of  Minnesota. 

HRIST  and  the  Bible  are  both  revelations  of  God. 
Both  are  the  Word  of  God.  The  Bible  is  the  Guide- 
book to  Heaven,  showing  us  the  way.  Christ  is  the 
Way.    No  man  cometh  unto  the  Father  but  by  Him. 


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EDGAR  WILSON  NYE, 

Humorist.     (1850-1896.) 


O^NE  of  the  strongest  reasons  why  we  should  not  doubt 
\^  Christ  and  the  Bible  in  their  relation  to  each  other  is 
^  !^  that  the  Christian  religion  has  for  so  many  centuries 
stood  against  the  hypocrisy  of  its  so-called  friends. 
The  unbeliever,  who  has  no  substitute  to  offer  for  a  whole- 
some faith  in  our  Saviour,  will  be  in  the  future,  even  more 
than  he  is  to-day,  the  representative  of  chaos  and  oblivion ;  a 
destroyer  without  hope,  an  underwriter  without  indemnity, 
an  ambulance  with  a  loud-sounding  gong,  but  no  hospital. 


/^-ci^^^y^ 


A    CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  343 

ADAM  GOTTLOB  GEHLENSCHLAEGAR, 

Danish  Poet.     ( 1779-1850.) 


ASPIRATIONS. 

PROM  Thy  throne  in  the  clouds,  Thou,  Lord,  smilest  to  me. 
My  Christ,  my  loved  Jesus,  Thou  mighty  to  save, 
Oh  !  help  me  to  conquer  all  sorrow  like  Thee. 

Hope's  green  banner,  Redeemer,  victorious  wave ; 
How  bitter  thy  Cross  amid  Calvary's  gloom  ! 
Thy  triumph  how  wondrous,  how  grand,  o'er  the  tomb. 


SIR  JOHN  OLDCASTLE. 

(LORD  COBHAM.) 

'    English  Reformer.     (1360-1417.) 

BEIylEVE  that  all  is  true  which  is  contained  in  the 
Holy  Scriptures,  and  profess  full  belief  in  the  blood 
of  Christ. — Page  490,  ^^  Cross  and  Crown^^^  by  James 
D.  McCabe. 


HANS  CHRISTIAN  ORSTED, 

Danish   Scientist;    Discoverer  in   Electro-Magnetism;    complemented  by 

Arago  and  applied  by  Morse,  resulted  in  the  Electric 
CL/)9  Telegraph.     (1777-1851.) 

J  <p(HRISTIANlTY  imbues  the  most  ignorant  with  a  horror 
\^     of  all  vices,  and  it  will  not  fail  to  do  so  when  man 


'^ 


devotes  himself  to  it  with  his  whole  heart.  The  im- 
perfections of  human  nature  make  it  difficult  to  re- 
ceive the  simple  comprehension  of  the  great  truths  of  our 
Christian  faith  as  c'earlv  and  purely  as  intended. — From 
' '  Ancient  and  Moderyt  Times, ' ' 


MARK  OLDROYD. 

Member  of  Parliament. 


^~y^  OD  seems  to  be  saying  with  increased  emphasis:  '*Go 

\PX  forward ! "      Counterfeits  and    caricatures  of    Chris- 

^=^  tianity  were,  fortunately,  being  played  out,  but  the  real 

Christianity  had  never  exercised  so  much  power  over 

the  consciences  and  lives  of  men  as  during  this  last  decade  of 


344  A  CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

the  nineteenth  century,  and  it  must  go  on  and  triumph. 
What  was  wanted  was  a  deepening  consciousness  of  the  love 
of  Christ  to  them,  that  there  should  not  be  simply  conscience 
rousing  them,  but  the  heart  with  all  its  affections  stimulating 
them  in  His  service,  so  that  they  might  be  able  to  say: 
^^  The  love  of  Christ  constraineth  us." — From  his  speech  on 
taking  the  Chair  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  London  Mis- 
sionary Society^  May^  1893. 


THE  RIGHT  HONORABLE   LORD 
OVERTOUN, 

Scottish  Peer. 

>HB  religion  of  Jesus  Christ  was  at  first  attested  by 
great  miracles — the  incarnation  of  the  Lord  of  Glory, 
His  life,  work,  death,  and  very  especially  His  resur- 
rection and  ascension.  The  resurrection  of  our  Sav- 
iour is  the  miracle  of  miracles,  the  key-stone  of  the  Christian 
faith.  The  history  and  present  condition  of  the  Jewish  peo- 
ple is  certainly  a  standing  testimony  to  the  truth  of  God's 
Word.  The  results  of  recent  discoveries,  especially  in  Bible 
lands,  throw  new  light  on  Revelation,  and  confirm  the  truth 
of  its  statements. 


EDWARD    OLNEY, 

Professor  of  Mathematics    University  of  Michigan,  from   1863  till 
Death  ;    Author  of  a  Complete  Set  of  Mathematical 
Text-Books.     (1827-1887.) 

HAT  mean  the  altar  fires  that  blaze  on  every  shore, 
and  back  along  the  line  of  the  centuries?  They  are 
man's  confession  that  he  is  a  sinner,  but  thanks 
be  unto  God,  the  blood  of  Jesus  Christ  cleans- 
eth  from  all  sin.  .  .  .  I^et  us  have  the  fullest  confidence 
in  the  divine  authenticity  of  the  Bible.  Let  us  court  the 
light;  the  gem  will  but  flash  the  more  brightly  in  its  flood. 
Yes,  from  the  varied  realms  of  History,  Science,  and   Philol- 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  345 

ogy  let  light  be  poured  in  upon  the  sacred  page  ;  concentrate, 
focalize  it ;  let  it  flame  and  glare ;  the  most  vulture-eyed  infi- 
delity shall  find  no  plague  spot  there. 


LAWRENCE  OLIPHANT, 

English  Author  and  Traveler.     (1829-1888.) 

AM  a  thorough  Christian  as  far  as  my  belief  in  every 
moral  principle  Christ  propounded  ...  I  quite  be- 
lieve in  the  inspiration  of  the  Bible,  but  in  a  particular 
way.  In  my  view  the  minds  of  Christ  and  His  disciples 
reflected  more  accurately  than  ever  before  or  since  the  mind  of 
God.  —  '-^Memoir  of  Lawrence  Oliphant^^''  by  Margaret  O. 
W.  Oliphant. 


OSCAR  II, 

King  of  Norway  and  Sweden. 


CHRISTIANITY  is  the  necessary  force  in  every  noble 
V_y  work.     •     .     .     Many  a  man   is   kept   from   doing 
^-Q^  wrong  by  having  a  Christian  refuge  where  he  can  go, 
and  often  he  comes  to  realize  the  blessings  of  our  Di- 
vine faith  when  surrounded  by  such  spiritual  influences.— 
Interview  with  Harry  Steele  Morrison. 


B.  S.  OSBON, 

Rear-Admiral,  Commanding  National  Association  Naval 
Veterans. 

HRIST  is  all  in  all,  and  for  all,  the  Bible  our  Chart. 
C^  I  have  yet,  in  this  earthly  cruise  of  three  score  years, 

to  find  a  sailor  who  did  not  believe  in  God  and  the 

Holy  Scriptures. 
Article  III,  Section  i,  of  the  Constitution   of  Naval  Vet- 


346  A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

erans  of  the  United  States  of  America,  reads:  ^' We  acknowl- 
edge a  firm  belief,  accountability,  and  trust  in  Almighty 
God."  These  words  tell  the  whole  story  of  the  sailor's  be- 
lief in  Christianity  and  its  inspired  Book. 

Individually,  I  have  leaned  upon  the  strong  arm  of  faith 
in  my  Redeemer  through  nearly  fifty  battles,  and  by  His 
J  Divine  mercy  have  been  spared  to  write  these  lines.  I  pray 
for  His  wisdom  and  strength  to  guide  me  aright  in  com- 
manding those  who  come  under  my  official  jurisdiction. 
Without  the  Saviour  and  the  Word  of  God,  life  would  in- 
deed be  a  barren  waste. 


JOHANN  FRIEDRICH  OVERBECK, 

German  Painter;  Reviver  and  Leader  of  "Christian  Art" 
in  the  Nineteenth  Century.     (1789-1869.) 

WHvIy  abide  by  the  Bible;  I  elect  it  as  my  standing- 
point.     .     .     .     Art  to  me  is  as  the  harp  of  David, 
whereupon  I  would  desire  that  psalms  should  at  all 
times  be  sounded  to  the  praise  of  the  Lord. — Page 
77,   Volume  XVII I ^  ''''The  Ency elopes dia  Britannieay 

Let  not  my  Saviour  be  ever  robbed  of  my  love ;  the  true 
home  of  art  is  within  the  soul ;  the  tabernacle  of  art  has  its 
foundation  in  the  worship  of  God.  .  .  .  Lamentation 
over  the  death  of  the  Son  of  God  may  arouse  in  the  spec- 
tator true  faith  and  repentance.  May  this  painting,  begun 
in  tears  for  my  own  and  only  son,  and  finished  in  grief  for 
the  loss  of  my  dear  brother,  draw  tears  from  the  eyes  of  Him, 
who  not  only  shed  tears,  but  blood,  in  order  that  His  death 
might  be  our  life.  Such  aim  have  I  in  my  art,  without 
which  it  would  seem  idle,  indeed  blasphemous. — Pages  33 
and  jy^  ^^ Overbeck^^^  by  J.  B.  Atkinson. 


WELL   KNOWN   GOVERNORS   OF   STATES. 


Frank  D.  Jackson,  Levi  K.  fuller,  David  R.  Francis 

Page  183.  Page  igs.  /'"',•!,'■<■  J^^^- 

William  J.  Northen,         Roswell  P.  Flower,  Isaac  P.  Gray 

Page  181.  Page  188.  Page  183. 

Jeremiah  M:  Rusk,  James  a.  Beaver, 


Page  IQ  ?. 


Page  I  go. 


'TWENTIETH-CENTURY  GOVERNORS  OF  STATES. 

LksIvIK  M.  Shaw,  Governor  of.  Iowa. — Most  as- 
suredly I  accept  the  Divinity  of  Jesus  Christ.  The 
evidence  is  unmistakable  that  Christian  civilization 
is  to  encircle  the  globe,  and  the  nation  that  rejects 
it  must  perish  from  the  earth. 


J.  HoGE  Tyi^er,  Governor  of  Virginia. — Recog- 
nizing the  inestimable  benefits  conferred  on  the 
world  through  the  religion  of  Christ,  it  is  a  privilege 
to  bear  witness  to  the  joy  and  comfort  my  belief  in 
the  atonement  of  Jesus  affords  me. 


W11.1.IAM  B.  STANI.EY,  Governor  of  Kansas. — 
The  religion  of  Christ  is  the  meet  potent  agency  in 
the  spiritual  uplift  of  the  race.  Among  books,  the 
Bible  occupies  the  same  place  that  the  Saviour  oc- 
cupies among  men — supremely  and  unquestionably 
Divine. 

George  W.  Atkinson,  Governor  of  West  Vir- 
ginia.— I  never  had  any  doubts  about  the  Divinity  of 
Christ  or  the  Bible,  and  I  have  given  the  subject 
careful  thought.  To  blot  out  Christianity  would  be 
to  draw  a  dark  veil  over  the  world  and  render  man- 
kind desolate. 

^Xx   "    I  Richard    Yates,    Governor    of    Illinois. —  The 

foundation  of  our  republic  rests  on  Christianity  and 
its  Gospels.  Our  President  can  afford  to  be  a  Chris- 
tian. I  have  no  patience  with  those  who  lack  the 
moral  courage  to  stand  up  and  be  counted  for  Christ, 
the  Saviour  of  the  world. 


LoN  V.  Stephens,  late  Governor  of  Missouri. — 
If  there  is  nothing  to  Christianity,  my  own  mother 
deceived  me.  When  dying,  she  triumphantly  said  : 
**  I  am  going  to  my  heavenly  home  "  Whoever  talks 
flippantly  of  the  Christian  faith,  heaps  insult  on  my 
honored  dead,  and  I  will  have  none  of  ito 

Note. — Seepages  179-193  for  the  Testimonies  of  Governors,  1889-1893.  Those 
of  Governors  Shaw,  Tyler,  Atkinson  and  Stephens  appeared  in  7Vie  C^*-isHan  Her- 
ald, of  New  York,  June  14,  1899;  that  of  Governor  Yates  in  the  Chioapro  Herald- 
Re  cord,  OcXoh^r  21,  i90i,and  that  of  Governor  Stanley  was  a'ldressed  to  the  Autlior. 


A  CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  347 

AXEL  OXENSTIERN, 

Chancellor  of  Sweden.     (1583-1654.) 

HAVE  seen  much,  and  enjoyed  much,  of  this  world ; 
but  I  never  knew  how  to  live  till  now.  I  thank  my 
God,  who  has  given  me  time  to  know  Him,  and  to 
know  myself.  All  the  comfort  I  have,  and  which  is 
more  than  the  whole  world  can  give,  is  feeling  the  Spirit  of 
God,  and  reading  in  this  good  Book  that  came  from  it.  You 
are  now  in  the  prime  of  your  age  and  vigor,  and  in  great 
favor  and  business ;  but  all  this  will  leave  you,  and  you  will 
one  day  understand  and  relish  what  I  say.  You  will  then 
find  that  there  is  more  wisdom,  true  comfort,  and  pleasure, 
in  retiring,  and  in  turning  your  heart  from  the  world  to  the 
good  Spirit  of  God,  and  in  reading  the  Bible,  than  in  all  the 
courts  and  favors  of  princes. — Page  \\^  of  ^^ The  Power  of 
Religion^^^  by  Lindley  Murray. 


SIR  JAMES  OUTRAM, 

British  Lieutenant-General  in  India  (The  '*  Bayard  of  India"). 
G)  ( 1 803-1 868.) 

ESIDES  being  the  means  of  saving  the  immortal 
souls  of  our  countrywomen,  these  Christian  Associa-^ 
tions  tend  to  spread  the  Gospel  of  our  Lord  and 
Saviour  in  the  land,  prompting  the  heathen  to  mod- 
erate the  rancor  and  contempt  they  bear  our  holy  faith. 
— Page  118,"  Twelve  Christian  Statesmen^'*  ^  by  George  Smith. 


DAVID  PERKINS  PAGE, 

The  First  Principal  of    New  York  State   Normal  School. 
(1810-1848.) 

N  our  public  schools,  supported  at  the  public  expense,  and 
in  which  the  children  of  all  denominations  meet  for  in- 
struction, I  do  not  think  that  any  man  has  a  right  to  crowd 
his  own  peculiar  notions  of  theology  upon  all,  whether 


348  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

they  are  acceptable  or  not.  Yet  there  is  a  common  ground 
which  he  can  occupy.  He  can  teach  a  reverence  for  the  Su* 
preme  Being,  a  reverence  for  the  Word  of  God,  for  the  ir.flu- 
ence  of  His  Spirit,  for  the  character  and  teachings  of  our 
Saviour,  and  for  the  momentous  concerns  of  eternity.  He 
can  teach  the  duty  of  repentance,  and  the  privileges  of  for- 
giveness, and  the  salvation  by  His  Son. — Pages  401  a7id  51 
of  ^''Theory  and  Practice  of  Teaching^''  by  David  Perkins^ 
Page, 

EDWARD  HENRY  PALMER, 

English  Egyptologist,  and  Lord  Almoner's  Professor  of  Arabic. 
(1840-1882.) 

>HE  Tih,  though  crossed  by  the  Hajj,  or  Pilgrim, 
route  to  Mecca,  and  frequently  traversed  by  the  per- 
sons who  prefer  to  approach  Palestine  by  the  ''Long 
Desert,"  has  been  but  very  imperfectly  described,  and 
never  systematically  explained,  while  the  whole  of  the  moun- 
tain district  was  absolutely  unknown.  And  yet  this  country 
is  of  the  highest  interest  to  the  Biblical  students,  for  across 
that  white,  unpromising  waste  lay  the  road  down  into  Egypt, 
on  which  Jacob  traveled  to  visit  his  long-lost  son,  and  along 
the  same  way  the  Virgin  Mother  fled  with  her  Divine  Child, 
Here,  as  the  name  still  reminds  us,  the  children  of  Israel 
wandered ;  and  the  hilly  plateau  on  the  northeast  was  the 
home  and  pasture  of  the  Patriarch. — Page  285,  Volume  Ily 
^''The  Desert  of  the  Exodus ^^^  by  E.  H.  Palmer. 


THOMAS  WITHERELL  PALMER, 

President  of  W^orld's  Columbian  Commission. 

\0  me  our  Lord  is  the  tenderest,  the  most  lovable,  the 
most  heroic  Personage  in  history.     In  His  character 
are  united   the  highest   philosophy   and  the  purest 
faith,  justice,  and    mercy,   exalted  spirituality  with, 
sympathy  for  the  most  degraded. 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  349 

I  do  not  stop  to  inquire  whether  He  is  ''  \nery  God  of  very 
God."  His  teachings  are  Divine,  and  I  accept  Him  as  "God 
made  manifest  in  the  flesh."  For  two  thousand  years  that 
luminous  Form  seen  subjectively  or  objectively,  it  makes  no 
difference  which,  has  rrised  up  the  down-trodden,  curbed 
the  mighty,  restored  the  wandering,  led  back  the  erring, 
wept  with  the  mourners,  consoled  the  afflicted,  soothed  the 
sufferer,  fed  the  hungry,  clothed  the  naked,  given  water  to  ^v 
those  who  were  athirst,  and  is  to-day  the  anchor  to  the  souls 
of  millions. 


FRANCESCO  PETRARCA  (PETRARCH), 

Italian  Poet.     (1304-1374.) 

AVE  mercy,  Lord,  on  my  un worth}'  ills; 
Fix  all  my  thoughts  in  contemplation  high, 
How  on  the  cross  this  day  a  Saviour  died. 


When  death  my  heart,  now  conscience — struck,  shall  seize, 
Commend  me,  Father,  then  to  Thy  dear  Son, 

Triie  God  and  very  Man, 
That  my  last  sigh  in   peace  may  in  His  arms  be  breathed. 


FRANCIS  TURNER  PALGRAVE, 

English  Art  Critic. 


STAR  OF  MORN  AND  EVEN. 

TAR  of  morn  and  even, 
Sun  of  Heaven's  heaven, 
Saviour,  high  and  dear. 
Toward  us  turn  thine  ear ; 
Through  whate'er  ma}-  come. 
Thou  canst  lead  us  home. 


350  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

MATTHEW  CALBRAITH   PERRY.*t 

Commodore,  United  States  Navy.     (1794-1858.) 

HAVE  just  finished  the  Bible;  T  make  it  a  point  to 
read  it  through  every  cruise.  It  is  certainly  a  won- 
derful Book — a  most  wonderful  Book.  .  .  .  From 
boyhood  I  have  taken  a  deep  interest  in  Christianizing 
the  heathen,  and  in  imparting  a  knowledge  of  God's  revealed 
truth  everywhere. — Biography,  by  W.  E.  Griffis. 

*In  1853  he  was  sent  to  one  of  the  harbors  of  Japan  to  protect  American 
seamen.     A  certain  Lord's  Day  he  laid  his  Bible  on  the  capstan,  read  the 

looth  Psalm,  and  sang 

"  Before  Jehovah's  awful  throne 
Ye  nations  bow  with  sacred  joy." 
t  His  brother,  Commodore  Oliver  H.  Perry,  was  also  a  Christian.     His 
favorite  book  was  the  Bible. — Appleton's  Cyclopcsdia  of  American  Biog- 
raphy, 

MUNGO  PARK, 

Scottish  Explorer  in  Africa,     { 1771-1806.) 

'HE  man  whose  soul  has  been  enlightened  by  his 
Creator,  and  enabled,  though  dimly,  to  discern  the 
wonders  of  salvation,  will  look  upon,  the  joys  and 
afflictions  of  this  life  as  equally  the  token  of  Divine 
love.  He  will  walk  through  the  world  as  one  traveling  to 
a  better  country,  looking  forward  with  wonder  to  the  Author 
.and  Finisher  of  his  faith. 

I  have  now  reached  that  height  that  I  can  now  behold  the 
tumult  of  nations  with  indifference,  confident  that  the  reins 
of  events  are  in  the  Father's  hands.  May  you  and  I  (not 
like  the  stubborn  mule,  but  like  the  weaning  child)  obey  His 
hand,  that  after  all  the  troubles  of  this  dark  world  in  which  we 
are  truly  strangers,  we  may  through  the  wonders  of  atonement 
reach  a  far  greater  and  exceeding  weight  of  glory.  .  .  . 
May  the  Holy  Spirit  dwell  forever  in  your  heart,  and  if  I 
/never  see  my  native  land  again,  may  I  rather  see  the  green 
^od  on  your  grave  than  see  you  anything  but  a  Christian. — 
Pages  43  aiid  44,  ^'■Mungo  Park  and  the  Niger y  by  Joseph 
Thompso7i, 


A  CLOUD  OF  WITNESSES.  35 1 

SIR  JAMES  A.  PARK, 

English  Lawyer  and  Judge     (1763-1838.) 

B  live  in  the  midst  of  blessings  till  we  are  utterly 
vJjTjl^  insensible  of  their  greatness,  and  of  the  source 
^Vj^Q^  from  whence  they  flow.  We  speak  of  our  civil- 
ization, our  arts,  our  freedom,  our  laws,  and  for- 
get entirely  how  large  a  share  is  due  to  Christianity.  Blot 
Christianity  out  of  the  pages  of  man's  history,  and  what 
would  his  laws  have  been,  what  his  civilization  ?  Christian- 
ity is  mixed  up  with  our  very  being  and  our  daily  life ;  there 
is  not  a  familiar  object  around  us  which  does  not  wear  a  dif- 
ferent aspect  because  the  light  of  Christian  love  is  on  it ;  not 
a  law  which  does  not  owe  its  truth  and  gentleness  to  Chris- 
tianity ;  not  a  custom  which  can  no4:  be  traced  in  all  its  holy, 
healthful  parts  to  the  Gospel. — Page  3,  ^^Allibone^s  Prose 
Quotations?'' 


WILLIAM  KITCHEN  PARKER, 

Late  Hunterian  Professor  at  the  Royal  College  of 
Surgeons. 

HEN,  as  a  tall  farmer's  son,  I  left  home  to  study 
science,  I  said,  "I  am  going  to  serve  God,"  and  I 
gave  myself  to  the  Lord  in  prayer.  The  lady 
where  I  went  said :  "  William,  read  your  Bible 
once  every  day."  William  did;  but  he  does  not  read  the 
Bible  only  once  a  day,  now.  After  fifty  years  I  am  not  likely 
to  lose  sight  of  Christ.  .  .  .  ''  Christ  in  me  the  hope  of 
glory !  What  a  little  thing  is  science  to  put  against  that !  It 
is  merely  the  ends,  shreds,  patches,  and  rays  of  knowledge^ 
The  more  child-like  we  are  in  science,  as  well  as  religion,- 
the  better  it  will  be.  Science,  in  geology  and  biology,  does 
not  touch  the  Scriptures  in  the  least.  It  does  not  aflect  the 
belief  of  any  godly  man  who  studies  it. — Page  45,  ^''Report  of 
the  Christian  Evidence  Society^  London. 


352  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

SIR  WILLIAM  EDWARD  PARRY, 

English  Rear  Admiral  and  Arctic  Navigator.   (1790-1855.) 

CAN  only  say  that  in  Christ  and  Him  crucified  is  all 
my  salvation  and  all  my  desire. 

I  began  to  read  the  New  Testament  every  evening 
from  June  3,  1824.      "  "^^^  entrance  of  Thy  Word 
giveth  light." 

My  speech  at  the  Bible  Society  has  been  talked  of 
sneeringly  at  this  great  house,  but  oh !  how  insignificant  does 
all  within  these  walls  appear  when  the  imagination  turns  for 
a  moment  to  the  assembled  hosts  of  Heaven,  and  men,  and 
angels !  Pray  for  me  that  I  may  be  encouraged  and  sup- 
ported by  the  Holy  Spirit,  in  every  humble  endeavor  to  ad- 
vance his  glory  and  the  salvation  of  men's  souls. — See  Vol- 
ume VII^  ''''Short  Biographies  for  the  People!'^ 


BLAISE  PASCAL, 

French  Philosopher  and  Mathematician. 
(1623-166?.) 

B  know  God  only  through  Jesus  Christ.  Without 
this  Mediator,  is  taken  away  all  communication 
with  God ;  through  Jesus  Christ  we  know  God. 
All  those  who  have  pretended  to  know  God,  and 
prove  Him  without  Jesus  Christ,  have  only  had  impotent 
proofs.  But,  to  prove  Jesus  Christ  we  have  the  prophecies 
which  are  good  and  valid  proofs.  And  those  prophecies,  be- 
ing fulfilled,  and  truly  proved  by  the  event,  indicate  the  cer- 
tainty of  these  truths,  and  therefore  the  truth  of  the  divinity 
of  Jesus  Christ.  In  Him,  and  by  Him,  then,  we  know  God. 
Otherwise,  and  without  Scripture,  without  original  sin,  with- 
out a  necessary  Mediator,  we  can  not  absolutely  prove  God, 
nor  teach  a  good  doctrine  and  sound  morals.  But  by  Jesus 
Christ  and  in  Jesus  Christ,  we  prove  God  and  teach  doctrine 
and  morals.     Jesus  Christ,  then,  is  the   true   God  of  men. 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  353 

Not  only  do  we  know  God  only  through  Jesus  Christ,  but  we 
know  ourselves  only  through  Jesus  Christ.  We  know  life, 
death,  only  through  Jesus  Christ.  Except  by  Jesus  Christ 
we  know  not  what  life  is,  what  our  death  is,  what  God  is, 
what  we  ourselves  are.  Thus,  without  Scripture,  which  has 
only  Jesus  Christ  for  its  object,  we  know  nothing,  and  we  see 
not  only  obscurity  and  confusion  in  the  nature  of  God,  anc 
in  nature  herself.  Without  Jesus  Christ,  man  must  be  in  sin 
and  misery ;  with  Jesus  Christ,  man  is  exempt  from  sin  and 
misery.  In  Him  is  all  our  virtue,  and  all  our  felicity.  Out 
of  Him,  there  is  nothing  but  sin,  misery,  error,  darkness, 
death,  and  despair. — Pages  334  and  335,  "  Thoughts^  Letters^ 
and  Opuscules  "  of  Blaise  Pascal.  Translated  from  the  French 
by  O.  W.  Wight. 


WILLIAM  HAROLD  PAYNE, 

Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Nashville. 

.URELY,  in  further  illustration  of  the  fact  that  the 
world's  greatest  teachers  have  been  inspired  by  a  love 
for  ignorant  and  suffering  humanity,  I  need  not  dwell 
at  length  on  the  story  of  the  Nazarene  peasant,  the 
carpenter's  son,  who,  by  His  sufferings  and  services,  has 
become  exalted  over  every  other  name  in  the  annals  of  time. 
But  have  we  sufficiently  reflected  on  the  fact  that  Jesus  owes 
His  awful  preeminence  among  reformers  to  His  perfect  con- 
descension to  men  of  low  estate,  to  his  frank  companionship 
with  publicans  and  sinners,  to  His  holy  ministration  to  the 
disinherited  of  the  world?  In  all  that  marvelous  life  there 
is  nothing  more  significant  or  more  touching  than  the  fact 
that  ignorance,  weakness,  and  sin,  instead  of  repelling  Christ 
from  men,  drew  Him  into  closer  sympathy  with  them.  We 
may  also  say  that  He  loved  men  because  they  were  sinful  and 

vile. Pages  242  and  243,  ^^Contributions  to  the  Science  of 

Education,  ''by  W.  H.  Payne,  President  of  the  University  of 
Nashville. 


3.S4 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


SIR  ROBERT  PEEL* 


English  Statesman;  Twice  Pxime  Minister.     (1788-1850.) 


"V*^" 


=«" 


ETHER  the 
^)Jf5jj[\  system  of  public 
J^^C^  education  be  re- 
ligious or  not,  the 
necessity  of  giving  access  to 
the  Word  of  God  remains 
the  same.  The  object  of 
the  Bible  Society  is  to  cir- 
culate the  Word  of  God  in 
the  most  remote  regions.  . 
It  may  be  that  the 
present  is  that  occasion 
when  the  knowledge  of  Divine  truth  is  to  be  conveyed 
through  those  missionaries,  if  they  had  the  means  of  distrib- 
uting the  Word  of  God.  This  may  be  the  special  occasion 
upon  which  millions  and  hundreds  of  millions  may  be  con- 
verted from  heathenism  to  the  knowledge  of  the  Word  of 
God,  which  will  make  them  wise  unto  salvation. — Passages 
from  his  Address  at  a  Bible  Meetings  Tamworth^  Englandy 
1827. 

This  is  taken  from  one  of  his  prayers:  ^' Great  and  mer- 
ciful God,  Ruler  of  all  nations,  help  me  daily  to  repair  to 
Thee  for  wisdom  and  grace  suitable  to  the  high  office  where- 
to Thy  providence  has  called  me.  ...  As  for  me.  Thy 
servant,  grant,  O  merciful  God,  that  I  may  not  be  so  en- 
grossed with  public  anxieties  as  that  Thy  Word  should  be- 
come unfruitful  in  me,  or  be  so  moved  by  difficulty  or  oppo- 
♦.^ition  as  not  to  pursue  the  narrow  way  which  leadeth  me  to 

*  When  Christianity  had  been  slightingly  referred  to  at  a  dinner  in  Lon- 
don, Sir  Robert  Peel  created  a  sensation  by  asking  his  host  to  ring  a  bell 
for  his  carriage,  saying  '•  I  am  still  a  Christian ! " 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  355 

life.  And,  O  most  gracious  Father,  if,  notwithstanding  my 
present  desires  and  purposes,  I  should  forget  Thee,  do  not 
Thou  forget  me,  seeing  that  I  entreat  Thy  constant  remem- 
brance and  favor  only  for  the  sake  of  our  most  blessed  Advo- 
cate and  Redeemer,  Jesus  Christ,  to  whom  with  Thee  and 
the  Holy  Spirit  be  glory  forever.  Amen. — Page  454,  ^^ Other 
Men's  Minds .^^ 

WILLIAM  PENN, 

Founder  of  Pennsylvania.     (1644-17 18.) 

jG^J^^  I  have  been  traveling,  the  great  work  of  Christ  in 
\l9Jl  the  earth  has  often  been  presented  to  my  view,  and 
^  U^  the  day  of  the   Lord   hath   been  deeply  impressed 
upon  me,  and  my  soul  and   spirit  hath  frequently 
been  possessed  with  an  holy  and  weighty  concern  for  the 
glory  and  name  of  the  Lord  and  the  spreading  of  his  ever- 
lasting truth. — See  his  "  Travels  in  Holland  and  Germany, ^^ 
I  do  declare  to  the  whole  world  that  we  believe  the  Scrip- 
tures to  contain  a  declaration  of  the  mind  and  will  of  God  in 
and  to  those  ages  in  which  they  were  written ;  being  given 
forth  by  the  Holy  Ghost  moving  in  the  hearts  of  holy  men  of 
God;  that  they  ought  also  to  be  read,  believed,  and  fulfilled  in 
our  day; 'being  used  for  reproof  and^instruction,  that  the  man 
of  God  may  be  perfect.     They  are  a  declaration  and  testi- 
mony of  heavenly  things  t?hemselves,  and,  as  such,  we  carry 
an  high  respect  for  them.     We  accept  them  as  the  words  of 
God   Himself — "  Treatise  on  the  Religion  of  the  Quaker s^^'' 
by  William  Penn, 


SIR  JOSEPH  WHITWELL  PEASE, 

C  .  Member  of   British  Parliament  since  1885. 

^1  F  we  are  to  follow  Christ  we  are  to  be  Christlike,  and 

^\    if  we  are  to   be  Christlike  we  must  acknowledge  the 

-G    great  brotherhood  of  man  and  that  higher  brotherhood 

which  Christ  has  promised  to  those  that  love  Him.     . 

.     .     The  longer  I  live  the  more  I  am  impressed   with  the 

wonderful    miraculous    power    of    the   Book. — London  City 

Missionary  Magazine.  June,  1891. 


35^  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

SIR  A.  PEASE, 

Member  of  Parliament.     (1837-1898.) 

E  can  confidently  recommend  them  to  the  Book 
from  beginning  to  the  end,  and  to  Him  who  gave 
Himself  for  our  salvation.  If  we  find  these  people 
who  do  not  hold  the  Christian  faith  in  the  sim- 
plicity with  which  we  hold  it,  and  that  there  are  few  living 
voices  to  go  forth  and  proclaim  the  truth  as  it  is  in  Christ 
Jesus,  how  thankful  we  ought  to  be  that  there  are  those  who 
are  willing  to  circulate  the  Word  of  God  which  is  able  to 
make  them  wise  unto  salvation. — Bible  Society  Reporter 
{Londo7t)^  1884. 

DOM  PEDRO  1!., 

Late  Emperor  of  Brazil.      (1825-1891.) 

IvOVE  the  Bible.  I  read  it  every  day,  and  the  more  I 
read  it  the  more  I  love  it.  There  are  some  people 
who  do  not  love  this  Book.  I  do  not  understand 
them,  but  I  love  it.  I  like  its  simplicity  and  its  very 
repetitions  and  reiterations  of  Divine  truth.  —  To  a  Corre- 
spondent of  the  New  York  Evangelist. 


JOHANN  HEINRICH  PESTALOZZI, 

Swiss  Educational  Reformer.     (1746-1827.) 

.HE  whole  Bible  is  a  collection  of  the  revelation  of  God. 

Let  no  one  say  that  Jesus  did  not  love  the  wicked, 

the  evil  doers !     He  loved  them  with  a  Divine  love. 

He  died  for  them. 

I  see  myself  lying  in  the  grave  ;  I  see  myself  entering  into 

eternity.     But  I  awake  !     I  have  seen  my  destiny.     It  is  not 

the  transitory  work  of  this  earthly  life  ;  it  is  the  power  of 

devotion  of  a  faithful  life  to  the  service  of  God  and  humanity; 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  357 

it  is  the  imitation  of  Jesus  Christ,  through  faith  in  Him  cru- 
cified, and  for  the  glory  of  God,  the  Father. — Pages  403  and 
404,  and  Appendix  of  '•'■Pestalozzi^  his  Life  and  IVork^^''  by 
Roger  De  Gruimps^  International  Educational  Series, 


-<?i 


M 


SIR  WILLIAM    PETTY, 

English  Political  Economist.     (1623-1687.) 

,  S  for  religion,  I  die  in  the  profession  of  that  faith  and 
foV  i^  the  practice  of  such  worship  as  I  find  established 
^  (v  ^^  ^^^  ^^^  ^^  "^^  country,  and  expressing  my  love 
and  honor  to  Almighty  God  for  such  signs  and 
tokens  as  are  understood  to  be  such  by  the  people  with  whom 
I  live,  God  knowing  my  heart ;  and  thus  begging  the  Divine 
Majesty  to  make  me  what  He  would  have  me  to  be,  both  as 
to  faith  and  good  works,  I  willingly  resign  my  soul  into  His 
hands,  relying  only  on  His  infinite  mercy  and  the  merits  of 
my  Saviour  for  my  happiness  after  this  life  ;  where  I  expect 
to  know  and  see  God  more  clearly  than  by  the  study  of  the 
Scriptures  and  of  His  works  I  have  hitherto  been  able  to  do. 
---Pages  284  and  285,  Volume  /F,  of  ^^ British  PlutarchP 


FRIEDRICH  PFAFF, 

Professor  of  Natural  Science,  University  of  Erlangen, 
Bavaria. 

.HB  conclusion  we  are  lead  to  is,  that  the  Scriptural 
account  of  man,  which  is  one  and  self-consistent,  is 
true;  that  God  made  man  in  His  own  image,  fitted 
for  fellowship  with  Himself,  and  favored  with  it ;  in 
a  state  from  which  man  has  fallen,  but  to  which  restoration 
is  possible  through  Him  who  is  the  brightness  of  the  Father's 
glory,  and  the  express  image  of  His  person.  This  account 
of  man  we  accept  by  faith,  because  it  is  revealed  by  God,  is 
supported   by  adequate  evidence,   solves   the   otherwise  in- 


358  A   CI.OUD    OF    WITNESSES. 

soluble  problems,  not  only  of  science  and  history,  but  of  in- 
ward experience,  and  meets  our  deepest  need.  We  believe 
there  was  a  first  man,  from  whom  all  other  men  are  de- 
scended, who  was  the  first  head  of  the  human  race;  that 
there  is  a  second  Man  in  whom  God  is  incarnate,  who  is  the 
source  of  undying  hope  to  all  who  become  united  to  Him. 
Where  science  forsakes  us,  Revelation  meets  us  with  an  ac- 
count of  man's  origin,  state,  and  destiny,  which  is  adequate 
and  coherent,  which  explains  all  the  facts,  and  commends 
itself  alike  to  reason  and  the  conscience ;  and  the  more  it  is 
sifted  and  examined,  the  more  well-founded  and  irrefragable 
does  it  prove  to  be. — Extract  from  "  The  Age  and  Origin  of 
Man^  Geologically  Considered^^^  Present-Day  Tract^  No.  13. 


SIR  ROBERT  PHAYRE, 

English  Major-General. 

^AyS  the  Word  of  God  carries  power  and  light  with  it, 
^^LoV.  I  pray  heartily  that  it  may  prevail  more  and  more, 
*^  (Cp^  and  have  a  fuller  and  freer  entrance  to  those  places 
v/hich  the  Lord  has  opened  to  us.  .  .  .  There 
is  no  amount  of  hindrance  that  Satan  may  oppose  to  the  prog- 
ress of  the  Gospel  that  can  not  be  removed  by  believing 
prayer  and  ple:iding  the  promises  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 
— 'Page  141,  VoL  II,  of  ''^Report  of  the  Missionary  Confer- 
ence^^ ^  Loftdon^  i< 


MAX  PEMBERTON, 

British  Author;   Editor  of  Cassell's  Magazine. 

P  i(7\)/  HATEVER  grain  of  style  I  may  possess,  whatever 
^^)h/^  facility  with  the  pen,   I  owe  it  to  THE  BOOK. 

JXq^  Does  the  amateur  ask  upon  what  he  shall  mould 
his  style?  I  reply,  THE  BOOK.  To  me  it  is 
the  whole  embodiment  of  all  the  grace  and  beauty  of  litera- 
ture. And,  more  than  that,  in  spite  of  *' higher''  critics,  it 
remains  for  me,  as  it  remains  for  millions,  the  very  Word  of 
God.      Though   saints  and  sages  pass  ^---^^ 

away,  the  Cross  of  Christ  is  still  the  em-  \  (         J 

blem  of  eternal  hope  and  salvation.  ^vZyV)       I  — 


A   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES.  359 

JOHN   FINIS  PHILIPS, 

Judge  in  United  States   District  Courts. 

BELIEVE  the  Bible  to  be  the  work  of  inspired  men, 
and  the  revelation  of  God's  will  towards  man.  Its 
wisdom,  moral  maxims,  and  wholesome  truths,  its 
original  jurisprudence,  its  poetry  and  eloquence,  have 
impassioned  and  governed  the  intellect  and  heart  of  the 
wisest,  greatest,  and  best  of  mankind  in  all  ages,  and  under 
all  civilizations. 

I  believe  Christ  to  be  more  than  human.  It  is  not  in 
human  power  to  have  revolutionized  society  and  state  as  did 
Jesus  of  Nazareth.  His  spirit  overawes  and  His  will  con- 
founds as  never  any  other  mortal  man.  Between  Him  and 
all  others  there  is  no  conceivable,  apt  term  of  comparison. 
He  had  no  model,  and  there  is  no  example  for  Him  among 
men.  He  taught  neither  philosophy  nor  science:  yet  the 
learned  of  mankind,  in  the  ages  since  He  taught,  have  paid 
Him  homage  and  owned  Him  as  Lord  and  Master.  He  Vv^as 
Divine,  the  Son  of  God,  the  Saviour  of  men. 


SIR  WILLIAM  PHIPPS, 

Governor  of  Massachusetts.     (1651-1695.) 

HAVE  divers  times  been  in  danger  of  my  life ;  and  I 
have  been  brought  to  see  that  I  owe  my  life  to  Him 
who  has  given  His  precious  life  for  me.  I  thank 
God  He  has  led  me  to  see  myself  altogether  un- 
happy without  an  interest  in  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  and  to 
close  heartily  with  Him,  desiring  Him  to  execute  all  His 
offices  on  my  behalf.  I  have  now,  for  some  time,  been  under 
serious  resolution,  that  I  should  avoid  Vv'hatever  I  knew  to  be 


360  A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

displeasing  to  God,  that  I  should  serve  Him  all  the  days  of 
my  life.  ...  I  knew  that  if  God  had  a  people  any- 
where, it  was  here,  and  I  resolved  to  rise  or  fall  with  them ; 
neglecting  very  great  advantages  for  my  worldly  interests, 
that  I  might  come  and  enjoy  the  ordinances  of  the  Lord 
Jesus  here. — Pages  240  and  241  in  ^^ Lives  of  the  Great 
Fathers  of  New  England!''^ 


WENDELL  PHILLIPS,* 


C,  ^^-N  Orator  and  Reformer.     (1811-1884) 


NE  of  the  best  proofs  that  the  Bible  is  a  Divine  Book 
is  that  it  has  outlived  the  misrepresentations  of  its 

^^  narrow  and  bigoted  friends.  ...  I  presume  to 
believe  the  Bible  outweighs  our  statute  books. 

My  faith  is  absolute;  Christ  I  believe  is  Divine.  "I  find 
the  whole  history  of  humanity  before  Him  and  after  Him 
points  to  Him,  and  finds  in  Him  its  center  and  its  solution. 
His  whole  conduct,  His  deeds,  His  words,  have  a  supernat- 
ural character,  being  altogether  inexplicable  from  human 
relations  and  human  means.''  (This  quotation,  from  a 
German  scholar,  he  repeated  in  his  dying  moments.) — ''Rec- 
ollections of  Mrs,  E.  F.  Crosby''  {MS). 

The  power  that  urged  the  world  forward  came  from 
Christianity.  .  .  .  He,  the  previous  speaker,  claims  to 
be  a  Christian.  So  do  I.  .  .  .  The  religious  literature 
of  Asia  has  been  compared  with  the  Christian  Scriptures. 
The  comparison  is  not  just.  That  literature  has  many  merits 
and  contains  scattered  sayings  and  precepts  of  excellency; 
but  there  are  heaps  of  chaff  in  that  and  in  the  writings  of 
the  early  Christian  fathers;  none  in  the  Gospels  and  Epis- 
tles.— ''Life  and  Times  of  Wendell  Phillips^''  by  George 
Lowell  Austin. 

*  Shakespeare  and  Plato  tower  above  the  intellectual  level  of  their  lime 
like  the  peaks  of  TenerifFe  and  Mont  Blanc.  We  look  at  them  and  it  seems 
impossible  to  measure  the  interval  that  separates  them  from  the  intellectual 
development  around  them.  But  if  this  Jewish  Boy,  in  that  era  of  the 
world,  in  Palestine,  with  the  Ganges  on  ©ne  side  of  Him  and  the  Olympus  of 
Athens  on  the  other,  ever  produced  this  religion  with  its  characteristic 
elements,  He  towers  so  far  above  Shakespeare  and  Plato  that  the  differ- 
ence between  Shakespeare  and  Plato  and  their  times  becomes  an  imper- 
ceptible wrinkle  on  the  surface  of  the  earth. — "  Christianity  a  Battle,  not 
a  Dreamt 


TYPICAL  MAGAZINE   EDITORS  AND  WRITERS. 


William  T.  Stead, 

Page  42^. 

Richard  W.  Gilder, 

Page  I -JO. 

Edward  W.  Bok, 

Page  20. 

Henry  M.  Alden, 

Page  7. 

John  B.  Walker, 

Page  488. 

Charles  D.  Warner, 

Page  489. 

ILLUSTRIOUS  PRESIDENTS  OF  UNIVERSITIES. 


Benjamin  Ide  Wheeler,  Arthur  T.  Hadley, 

Page  498.  Page  2J5. 

Francis  P.  Venable, 

Page  476. 

A.  H.  Fetterolf,  Alexander  S.  Webb, 

Page  1^0.  Page  490. 


A    CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES.  361 

THE  RIGHT  HONORABLE  LORD 
POLWARTH, 

Scottish  Peer. 

E  must  go  right  on  into  the  eternity  of  the  past 
and  into  the  very  face  of  God  through  Jesus 
Christ  if  we  would  realize  the  origin  of  the  Church 
of  the  living  God.  It  was  in  God's  heart,  and 
from  there  that  that  wonderful  purpose  emina-ted,  and  after- 
wards passed  on  to  its  manifestation  in  the  incarnation  of  the 
beloved  Son  of  God.  ...  In  our  risen  Saviour  there  is 
power,  there  is  life,  there  is  peace,  there  is  everything  you 
and  I,  as  sinful  beings  redeemed  by  the  blood  of  the  Lamb, 
can  possibly  need  on  earth. — See  Address  as  Chairman  of 
the  Mildmay  Conference^  1896. 


FRANKLIN   PIERCE, 

Fourteenth  President  of  the  United  States. 
(  1 804- 1 869.) 

'ECOGNIZING  the  wisdom  of  the  broad  principles 
of  absolute  religious  toleration  proclaimed  in  our 
fundamental  law,  and  rejoicing  in  the  benign  in- 
fluence which  it  has  exerted  upon  our  social  and 
political  condition,  I  should  shrink  from  a  clear  duty  if  I 
failed  to  express  my  deepest  conviction  that  we  can  place  no 
secure  reliance  upon  any  apparent  progress  if  it  be  not  sus- 
tained by  national  integrity,  resting  upon  the  great  truths 
affirmed  and  illustrated  by  Divine  Revelation. — From  his 
Inaugural  Address- of  March  4,  1853. 


ALFRED  PLEASONTON, 

Major-General  in  the  Civil  War. 

/^  INCLOSE  the  Emperor  Napoleon's  views  of  Christ; 
they  are  mine  also. 


362  A    CLOUD    OF    WITNESSKS. 

This  is  a  copy  of  the  inclosure :  "I  know  men,"  said 
Napoleon  at  St.  Helena  to  Count  de  Motholon,  "  I  know  men, 
and  I  tell  you  that  Jesus  is  not  a  rnan!  The  religion  of 
Christ  is  a  mystery  which  subsists  by  its  own  force,  and  pro- 
ceeds from  a  mind  which  is  not  a  human  mind.  We  find  in  it 
a  marked  individuality,  which  originated  a  train  of  words  and 
actions  unknown  before.  Jesus  is  not  a  philosopher,  for  His 
proofs  are  miracles,  and  from  the  first  His  disciples  adored 
Him.  Alexander,  Caesar,  Charlemagne,  and  myself  founded 
empires ;  but  upon  what  foundation  did  we  rest  the  creations 
of  our  genius  ?  Upon  force  !  But  Jesus  Christ  founded  His 
upon  love ;  and  at  this  hour  millions  of  men  would  die  for 
Him." 

ALEXANDER  POPE, 

English  Poet.     (1688-1744.) 


</, 


)  z 


THE  MESSIAH.    • 

ARK !  a  glad  voice  tlie  lonely  desert  cheers. 
Prepare  the  way!  a  God,  a  God  appears ! 
A  God,  a  God !  the  vocal  hills  reply ; 
The  rocks  proclaim  the  approaching  Deity. 

The  Saviour  comes  !  by  ancient  bards  foretold; 
Hear  Him,  ye  deaf,  and  all  ye  blind,  behold ! 


WILLIAM  PITT, 

FIRST  EARL  OF  CHATHAM, 


'^-  \/~N     British  Statesman,  "  The  Great  Commoner."     (1708-1778.) 

tk^  ■     .  .  . 

/^UR  nature  is  corrupted  and  defiled  ;  in  order  to  become 
V^  Christ's  disciple,  and  worthy  to  partake  of  the  privi- 
'*^K^  leges  of  His  Gospel,  we  must  "be  created  in  righteous- 
ness and  true  holiness." 
Believing  in    Jesus  Christ  acquits  from  the  guilt  of  sins 
committed  before  such  belief,  and  this  in  order  to  a  better 
life;  but  believing  in  Jesus  Christ  does  not  acquit  from  the 
guilt  of  any  sins  continued  in  after  this  belief,  and  during 
our  Christian  profession,  but  indeed  extremely  adds  to  it.— 
Appendix^    Volume   IV^    ^^Correspondence   of   William  Pitt, 
jEarl  of  Chatham. "  . 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 


363 


WILLIAM  PITT, 

English  Statesman  and  Orator.     (1759-1806.) 

E  was  the  second  son 
of  the  Earl  of  Chat- 
ham, and  not  only 
imitated  his  father's 
intellectual  and  political 
worth,  but  his  religious 
character  as  well.  At  differ- 
ent times  in  his  great 
speeches  he  was  wont  to 
speak  in  the  loftiest  strain 
of  the  Christian  religion, 
and  to  quote  freely  from  the 
Word  of  God,  but  all  that  he 
may  have  said  in  his  life- 
time is  as  nothing  compared  to  the  sublime  climax  in  the^ 
hour  of  his  dissolution.  It  was  on  the  23d  of  January,  1806,. 
that  he  died,  and  clasping  his  hands  he  uttered  these  words,, 
rising  as  he  spoke,  "I  throw  myself  ^;?^/W/y," — laying  strong 
emphasis  upon  the  word — "upon  the  mercy  of  God,  througk 
the  merits  of  Christ." — Page  543,  "  Worthies  of  tlie  World^^ 


DAVID  DIXON  PORTER, 


Admiral  in  United  States  Navy. 
(1813-1891.) 

HEN  one  sees  how  much  has  been  done  for  the 
world  by  the  disciples  of  Christ  and  those  profes- 
sing the  Christian  religion,  he  must  be  astonished, 
to  find  anyone  who  hesitates  to  believe  in  the 
Divine  origin  of  Jesus  and  the  wonderful  works  He  per- 
formed, all  of  which  are  so  beautifully  portrayed  by  the 
author   of  the  work    under    consideration;  and  no  man  or 


3^4 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


woman  of  real  intelligence  would  hesitate  to  believe  that  it 
is  only  through  Christ  that  sinners  can  be  saved,  unless  their 
vanity  is  so  great  that  they  think  they  are  capable  of  saving 
themselves  without  an  intermediary. 


JAMES  KNOX  POLK, 

Eleventh  President  of  the  United  States.     (1795-1849.) 

!N  his  last  sickness 
he  expressed  his 
sense  of  unworthi- 
ness  before  God, 
together  with  painful  ap- 
prehension that  he  had 
long  delayed  to  seek  the 
Divine  favor  and  to  de- 
vote himself  to  the  serv- 
ice of  Christ,  to  expect 
His  pardoning  mercy  on 
his  death-bed.  He  at 
last  professed  to  have 
obtained  pardon  for  all 
his  sins,  and  the  purifi- 
cation of  his  heart 
through  the  blood  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ.  From 
the  time  that  he  realized  this  great  blessing,  and  attached 
himself  to  the  Church,  he  never  expressed  the  slightest 
doubt,  but  with  meekness  and  humility  praised  the  Lord 
for  His  abundant  mercy,  and  with  unwavering  confidence 
^posed  upon  the  Saviour,  and  died  in  the  full  assurance  of 
A  glorious  immortality. —  Page  395,  ''American  Christian 
Ruler s^^^  by  Edward  J.  Giddings. 


A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES.  365 

SERGEANT  SMITH  PRENTISS, 

Lawyer,   Orator,  and   Congressman.      (1808-1850.) 

E  called  repeatedly  upon  God.  One  day  when  he  was 
very  low,  and  much  distressed  at  the  idea  of  death,  I 
urged  him  to  go  to  the  Saviour,  and  repeated  to  him 
many  sentences  from  the  Bible  ;  but  he  said  God 
would  never  forgive  him ;  that  I  did  not  know  how  wicked 
he  had  been.  I  told  him  only  to  repent  and  believe  in  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ,  and  *'  though  his  sins  were  as  scarlet,  they 
would  be  white  as  snow."  This  seemed  to  quiet  him.  .  . 
.  .  Yesterday  I  heard  him  say,  as  if  to  himself,  "  O  God,  the 
Son,  have  mercy  on  me !  " — Page  561,  Volume  II ^  of  "^ 
Memoir  of  S.  S.  Prentiss^''''  edited  by  his  brother. 


PETER  1.  (PETER  THE  GREAT) 
ALEXEIEVITCH, 

Czar  of  Russia.      (1675-1725.) 

OVEREIGNS  have  rights  only  over  the  bodies  of 
their  people ;  Christ  Jesus  is  the  sovereign  of  their 
souls. . 

By  the  mercy  of  God  and  your  prayers  we  are  alive 
and  in  good  health;  following  the  Divine  command  given  to 
©ur  forefather,  Adam,  we  are  hard  at  work.  What  we  do  is 
not  from  any  necessity,  but  for  the  sake  of  learning  naviga- 
tion, so  that,  having  mastered  it  thoroughly,  we  can,  when 
we  return,  be  victors  over  the  enemies  of  Jesus  Christ. — 
''''Peter  the  Great  as  a  Rider  and  Reformer ^^^  by  Eugene 
Schuyler^  Scribner^  s  Moiithly^  1880. 


TERENCE  VINCENT  POWDERLY, 

^    Late  General  Master  \A^orkman  of  the  Knights  of  Labor. 

HRIST  was  right.  He  spoke  for  the  poor,  worked  for 
the  poor,  and  died  for  the  poor.  He  went  to  the 
bottom  of  land,  money,  and  labor;  was  a  lover  of 
equality  and  fraternity;  believed  that  no  one  was 
better  than  his  brother  man.  He  combated  evils  as  He 
found  them.      His  efforts  were  directed  against  the  money 


366  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

changers  or  bankers  of  His  day ;    against  the  crafty  few  who^ 
stole  the  land  from  the  many. 

Christ  founded  Christianity;  and  if  Christianity  means 
anything,  it  means  that  for  which  Christ  died  should  be  prac- 
ticed on  earth.  Churches  were  founded  in  His  name,  but  in 
His  name  only.  If  Christ  were  to  visit  this  earth  now,  and 
on  a  Sunday  morning  enter  one  of  our  fashionable  churches 
dedicated  to  His  honor  and  glory.  He  would  be  given  a  seat 
near  the  door  where  He  would  hear  His  disciples  apologizing 
for  the  mortal  sins  of  the  rich  and  denouncing  the  trivial 
omissions  of  the  poor.  He  would  find  the  tribes  of  Judas 
strong  and  numerous ;  the  descendants  of  those  who  raised 
the  Cross  and  nailed  Him  to  it  would  He  find  in  charge  of 
the  political  machinery  of  the  day.  Christ  was  right ;  His 
teachings  were  right;  they  live  on,  and  will  not  die.  They 
inspire  the  lowly,  strengthen  the  weak,  and  shine  out  in 
blazing  truth  before  the  oppressed  among  men.  All  Chris- 
tians agree  on  the  divine  attributes  of  Christ ;  all  believe 
Him  to  be  the  Son  of  God,  and  equal  to  Him  in  power,  love 
and  goodness. 


EDWARD  JOHN  PHELPS, 

Lawyer;    Ex-President  American   Bar  Association;    late  Ambassador  to 

Great  Britain;  Kent  Professor  of  Law,  and  Lecturer  on  Equity 

and  International  Law,  Yale  University. 

<HE  substantial  facts  on  which  Christianity  is  founded 
are  within  the  scope  of  this  indispensable  rule— the 
testimony  of  individual  witnesses,  over  whose  graves 
many  centuries  have  passed.  For  more  than  1800 
years  that  truth  has  been  accepted  almost  universally  wher- 
ever it  has  been  made  known.  In  the  history  of  the  world  it 
has  been  in  all  generations  the  most  important  factor,  and  has 


\   CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES.  367 

molded  and  controlled,  as  nothing  else  ever  did,  the  conduct, 
the  progress  and  destiny  of  the  human  race.  Time  and  the 
general  assent  of  humanity  have  thus  established  the  truth  of 
the  fundamental  facts  of  the  religion  of  Jesus  Christ.  It  is 
too  late  to  deny  them  or  to  controvert  them  by  cavil  or  crit- 
icism over  evidence  long  passed  beyond  the  region  of  human 
scrutiny.  And  the  Faith,  so  far  as  it  depends  on  the  testi- 
mony of  'men,  rests  on  the  same  foundation  that  justice, 
experience  and  necessity  concur  in  according  to  all  facts  on 
which  the  rights  of  mankind  repose  after  the  witnesses  are 
gone. — From  a  Lecture  before  the  Yale  Divinity  School. 


THEOPHILUS  PARSONS, 

Chief  Justice  Supreme  Court  of  Massachusetts,  1806  until  death. 

(1750-1813.) 

EXAMINED  and  weighed  the  proofs  and  objections 
to  Christianity  many  years  ago,  with  the  accuracy  of 
a  lawyer,  and  the  result  was  so  entirely  a  conviction 
of  its  truth  that  I  have  only  to  regret  my  belief  has 

not  more    completely  influenced    my  conduct. —  Page  313, 

Me'ntoirs. 


WILLIAM  HICKLING  PRESCOTT, 

Historian,  Author,  and  Poet.     (1796-1859.) 

REJOICE,  my  little  friend,  that  you  are  a  beHever. 
For  my  own  part,  I  have  no  doubt  either  of  the  truths 
of  Christianity,  or  of  the  momentous  and  infinite  im- 
portance of  those  truths.  I  hear  a  thousand  things 
from  the  pulpit  that  make  me  smile,  yet  I  would  rather  be  a 
Christian  of  the  very  humblest  order  of  intellect  than  the 
most  gloriously-gifted  infidel  that  ever  blazed  like  a  comet 
through  the  atmosphere  of  earth. — See  "  The  Poems  of  George 
D.  Prentice^  edited  with  a  Biographical  Sketch.'*' 

What  we  do,  we  shall  indeed  be  accountable.     The  doc- 


368  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

trines  of  our  Saviour  unfold  the  code  of  morals  by  which  our 
conduct  shall  be  regulated.  Who,  then,  whatever  difficul- 
ties he  may  meet  with  in  particular  incidents  and  opinions 
recorded  in  the  Gospels,  can  hesitate  to  receive  the  great  and 
religious  and  moral  truth  inculcated  by  the  Saviour  as  the 
words  of  inspiration  ?  I  can  not,  certainly  !  On  this,  then,, 
I  will  rest,  and  for  all  else  *'  Wait  the  great  teacher,  Death, 
and  God  adore ! — ^^Life  of  William  Hickling  Prescott^^^  by 
George  Ticknor. 

DANIEL  BOARDMAN  PURINTON, 

President  of  Denison  University. 

REGARD  Jesus  Christ  as  the  Central  Personage  of 
human  history,  and  the  Source  of  the  world's  best 
progress,  as  well  as  the  Divine  Revealer  of  the  only 
infinite  and  eternal  God.  I  believe  the  Holy  Scrip- 
tures to  be  the  inspired  record  of  what  men  need  to  know 
concerning  what  God  has  done  through  Christ  in  their  crea- 
tion and  redemption.  An  abiding  faith  in  the  Bible  as  a 
Divine  Book,  and  in  Jesus  Christ  as  a  living,  loving,  per- 
sonal Saviour  has,  for  twenty-five  years,  furnished  me  the 
sweetest,  noblest,  and  richest  experiences  of  my  life.  My 
hopes  for  the  future  of  myself  and  of  all  men  are  centered  in 
Jesus  Christ,  the  Lord. 


c^C^  C^-^^^i-^^-^ 


JAMES  PYLE, 

K\j  yC)  Financier  and  Manufacturer. 

<p^HRIST  and  the  Bible  are  to  me  more  than  all  things 
\2j  else,  because  they  are  the  only  safe  Guides  .to  eter- 
^^1^  nal   life.     I    accept  His  Word   as    final,   His    atone- 
ment as  sufficient.  His  Providence  as  plain,  and  His 
Will  as  mine. 


/^-^^ 


T-'*-*-^ 


A  CIvOUD  OF  WITNESSES.  369 

WILLIAM  ORDWAY  PARTRIDGE, 

Sculptor;  Sculptor  of  the  Kauffmann  Memorial,  Washington. 

.HE  potent  personality  of  our  Divine  Master  still  broods 
over  Palestine.  It  seems  but  yesterday  when  our 
Saviour  walked  out  of  Jerusalem,  over  Judea,  through 
Samaria.  .  .  .  Renan  said  that  his  own  dictum 
is  his  only  authority.  I  prefer  to  trust  to  the  historical  se- 
quences of  the  ages,  and  to  faith,  rather  than  to  this  French 
criiic.^-^ Success^  December^    1901. 


FRANCIS  QUARLES. 

English  Poet.     (1592-1644.) 

GLORYING  IN  THE  CROSS. 

''In  critce  stat  securus  amorT 

God  forbid  that  I  should  glory,  save  in  the  Cross  of  Christ.' 


Y  trust  is  in  the  Cross;  let  beauty  flag 
-  ^Vl.  Her  loose,  her  wanton  sail ; 

j<^  Let  countenance-guilding  honor  cease  to  brag 
In  courtly  terms  and  vail ; 
Let  ditch-bred  wealth  henceforth  forget  to  wag 

Her  base  though  golden  tail ; 
False  beauty's  conquest  is  but  real  loss, 

And  wealth  but  golden  dross; 
Best  honor's  but  a  blast :  my  trust  is  in  the  Cross. 

My  trust  is  in  the  Cross ;  there  lies  my  rest ; 

My  fast,  my  sole  delight. 
Let  cold-mouthed  Boreas,  or  the  hot-mouthed  East, 

Blow  till  they  burst  with  spite; 
Let  earth  and  hell  conspire  their  best, 

And  join  their  twisted  might ; 
Let  showers  of  thunders-bolts  dart  down  and  wound  me, 

And  troops  of  fiends  surround  me, 
All  this  may  well  confront ;  all  this  shall  ne'er  confound  me. 


2^0  A    CLOUD    OF    WITNEvSSES. 

JOHN  DUNCAN  QUACKENBOS, 

Author,  and  Professor  of  English  Literature  in  Columbia  College. 

^l_^  .OREMOST  of  this  class  in  eloquence  of  diction,  sub- 
^^^A  limity   of  thought,    and  versatility  of  genius  stands 
^jg^  Isaiah.     Majesty,    united     with  elaborate    finish;    a 
harmony  that   delights  the  soul;  a  variety    that  im- 
parts freshness  without  detracting  from  dignity;  simplicity, 
wdth  unvarying   purity  of  language,   conspire  to  make  the 
lyric  verse  of  "The   Evangelical  Prophet"  the  most  appro- 
priate embodiment  of  the  awful  messages  of  God  to  the  Jews, 
the  promise  of  a  Messiah,  and  universal  peace. 

Of  the  facts  presented  in  these  first  five  books  of  the  Old 
Testament,  some  are  confirmed  by  hieroglyphic  inscriptions, 
but  of  the  greater  part  we  should  have  no  knowledge  without 
the  inspired  narrative.  Aside,  therefore,  from  its  religious 
bearing,  the  Pentateuch  is  invaluable  as  an  historical  record 
of  primeval  ages;  while  its  clear,  concise,  dignified  style,  rich 
with  noble  thoughts,  expressed  in  the  venerable  language  of 
authority,  is  worthy  of  its  sublime  subjects. — Pages  96  and 
<)i  of  ^^Illustrated  History  of  American  Literature^^^  by  John 
JDuncan  Quackenbos. 


JOSIAH  QUINCY. 

Statesman,  and  President  of  Harvard  College. 
{1772-1864.) 

HE  great,  comprehensive  truths,  written  in  letters  of 
living  light  on  every  page  of  our  history — the  lan- 
guage addressed  by  every  past  age  of  New  England 
to  all  future  ages,  is  this :  Human  happiness  has  no 
perfect  security  but  freedom;  freedom.^  none  but  virtue;  vir- 
tue^ 7tone  but  knowledge  ;  and  neither  freedom^  nor  virtue^  nor 
htowledge  has  any  vigor  or  immortal  hope  except  in  the 
principles  of  the  Christian  faith ^  and  in  the  sanctions  of  the 
Christian    religion. — From    ajt  address  delivered   in  Bos' on  ^ 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  J^yi 

September  17,  1830 — the  close  of  the  second  century  since  the 
first  settlement  of  that  city. 


EDGAR  QUINET, 

French  Author  and  Philosopher.     (1803-1875.) 

^F  any  one  thing  distinguishes  Christianity  from  preced- 
ing religions,  it  is  that  the  Gospel  is  not  the  apotheosis 
of  nature  in  general,  but  of  personality  itself.  It  has 
this  character  in  its  beginning  and  in  its  end ;  in  its 
monuments  and  in  its  dogmas.  .  .  .  The  internal  do- 
minion of  the  soul  which  feels  itself  greater  than  the  uni- 
verse— this  is  the  lasting  miracle  of  the  Gospel.  And  this 
prodigy  is  no  illusion,  no  allegory;  it  is  reality.  In  the 
same  manner  as  in  paganism  the  sea,  primitive  night,  the 
shoreless  chaos,  gave  a  solid  basis  to  popular  fictions,  here, 
also,  the  infinite  soul  of  Christ  served  as  a  foundation  for  all 
Christian  influences ;  for,  what  is  the  Gospel  if  it  be  not  an 
unfolding  of  the  inner  world  ?  All  life,  all  grandeur,  as  well 
as  all  misery,  rises  from  the  individual.  Suppose,  then,  that 
we  wish  to  exalt  ourselves  in  union  with  all  the  human 
race,,  we  must  not  deny  the  dignity  of  the  individual.  The 
noblest  work  of  Christianity  is  to  have  consecrated  the  in- 
dividual in  the  highest  manner. — Pages  74  and  75,  ''  Voices 
of  the  Church.''^ 

JEAN  RACINE, 

J\^  French  Dramatic  Poet.     (1639-1699.) 

ESUS  in  our  hearts  designs  to  shine  to-day ;  Jesus,  who 


2 


^ 


^ 


is  entirely  one  with  the  divine  Father,  and  His  divine 

Father  is  one  with  Him. 

The  Word,  image  of  the  Father,  left  His  eternal 
throne,  and  of  a  mortal  mother  chose  to  be  born  Man.  He 
deprived  himself  of  His  splendor,  and  came  down,  poor  and 
miserable,  to  teach  the  guilty  race  true  greatness. — Miscel- 
laneoiis  Writijtgs  of  Racine. 


372 


A    CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES. 


SIR.  WALTER  RALEIGH. 

English  Navigator,  Statesman,  and  Courtier.     (1552-1618  ) 

The  exceeding  umbra- 
geousness  of  this  tree  he 
compareth  to  the  dark 
and  shadowy  life  of  man ; 
through  which  the  sun  of 
justice  being  not  able  to 
pierce,  we  have  all  re- 
mained in  the  shadow  of 
death  till  it  pleased  Christ, 
the  tree  of  the  Cross  for 
our  enlightenment  and 
redemption. — Page  105, 
^^Allibone's  Prose  Quota- 
tzojtsy 

I  entreat  you  all  to  join 
me  in  prayer  that  the 
great  God  of  Heaven, 
would  forgive  me,  and  cast  my  sins  from  me,  ana 
that  He  would  receive  me  into  everlasting  life ;  and  I  hope  to 
be  saved,  and  to  have  my  sins  washed  away  by  the  precious 
blood  of  our  Saviour,  Jesus  Christ,  so  I  take  leave  of  you  all, 
making  my  peace  with  God. — *'  Worthies  of  the  World. ""^ 


THE  RIGHT  HONORABLE  LORD 
RADSTOCK, 

English   Statesman. 

TRUST  that  we  shall  recognize  our  duty  and  our  re- 
sponsibility with  reference  to  that  magnificent  Gospel 
which  we  rejoice  in.     ...     I  think  it  will    have 
your  hearty  assent  when  I  propose  that  we  spend  a 
short  time  praying  definitely  for  those  who  have  gone  out  in 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  373 

the  name  of  Christ  by  thousands  and  tens  of  thousands  to 
other  lands. 

Supposing  we  all  had  to  face  these  difficulties  eighteen 
hundred  years  ago,  when  the  Blessed  One  was  upon  earthy 
what  would  we  have  done  ?  We  would  have  said,  "We  will 
just  go  and  ask  the  Lord  about  it."  He  would  have  put  it 
right,  do  not  you  think  ?  Is  He  less  in  our  midst  to-day  ? 
Have  we  not  been  looking  to  our  organizations  and  our  plans, 
and  have  forgotten  Him  ?  We  have  forgotten  that  He  is 
really  in  each  place  the  Head  of  the  little  Church,  and  that 
when  the  little  Church  recognizes  Him  as  the  Head,  He 
will,  according  to  the  very  constitution  of  that  Church,  not 
merely  guide  it,  but  manifest  Himself  as  the  Head  of  the 
Body. — Pages  73,  90,  Volume  /,  and  page  486,  Volume  Ily 
''^Report  of  the  Missionary  Conferences^  London^  1888. 


SAMUEL  JACKSON  RANDALL, 

Congressman  1863-1890;  Twice  Speaker  of  the  House, 
Q^  (1828-1890.) 

(J  A 

pyT\  ENTLEMEN,  Christianity  is  true.     The  man  who 

VMT  doubts  it  discredits  his  own  intelligence.     I  have  ex- 

/r'^  amined  this  matter  for  myself. 

I  know  that  God  has  given  me  influence  among 
my  fellow  men,  and  as  I  have  a  prospect  of  recovery  I  want 
henceforth  to  use  the  influence  of  my  example  on  the  side 
of  Christianity. —  Washington  Papers. 

Those  who  enjoyed  his  friendship  will  remember  that 
temper  which  years  of  sickness  and  pain  seemed  only  to 
make  sweeter  and  sweeter,  until  he  at  last  fell  asleep  on  the 
bosom  of  his  Saviour,  a  faithful  servant  of  God. — In  Memo- 
rial Address  of  Congressman  Gibson  of  Louisiana. 

To  my  mind,  at  least,  the  fact  that  Samuel  J.  Randall 
openly,  earnestly  embraced  the  Christian  faith  ought  to  go 
far  to  confirm  the  wavering,  and  remove  the  doubts  of  those 


374  A   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES. 

who  are  hesitating,  for  he  was  a  strong  man,  and  no  fear  of 
death  moved  him,  but  his  profession  was  the  result  of  a  clear 
and  full  conviction  that  there  is  a  life  beyond  the  grave. — In 
Memorial  Address  of  Congressman  Butterworth  of  Ohio. 


SIR  HENRY  RAMSAY, 

British    Statesman  in  India.      {1816-1893.) 

HE  true  President  of  this  conference  is  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ,  and  the  promise  of  His  Divine  presence 
is  the  surest  guarantee  of  success.  We  must  forget 
all  differences  of  opinion  and  look  to  Him  who  is  the 

Light  of  the  world. — Page  285,"  Twelve  Indian  Statesmen,^^ 

by  George  Smith. 


JOHN   RANDOLPH, 

Orator  and  Statesman.     (  1773-1833.) 

WAS  raised  by  a  pious  mother  (God  bless  her  mem- 
ory), who  taught  me  the  Christian  religion  in  all  its 
requirements.  But,  alas!  I  grew  up  an  infidel  com- 
plete, a  decided  deist.  But  when  I  became  a  man,  in 
this  as  well  as  other  matters,  I  resolved  to  examine  for  my- 
self, and  never  pin  my  faith  to  another  man's  sleeve.  So  I 
bought  this  Bible ;  I  studied  over  it ;  I  sought  and  procured 
those  books  for  and  against,  and  when  my  labors  were,  ended 
I  came  to  this  irresistible  conclusion,  that  the  Bible  is  true. 
It  would  have  been  as  easy  for  a  mole  to  have  written  Sir 
Isaac  Newton's  treatise  on  optics  as  for  uninspired  men  to 
have  written  the  Bible. 

Have  you  read  THE  BOOK?  What  I  say  on  this  sub- 
ject I  not  only  believe,  but  I  know  to  be  true — that  the 
Bible  studied  with  an  humble  and  a  contrite  heart  never  yet 
failed  to  do  its  work.  ...  I  would  not  give  up  my 
slender  portion  of  the  price  paid  for  our  redemption — yes, 
my  brother,  our  redemption — the  ransom  of  sinners —  .     .     . 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  375 

I  say  I  would  not  exchange  my  little  portion  in  the  Son  of 
David  for  the  power  and  glory  of  the  Parthian  and  Roman 
empires,  as  described  by  Milton  in  the  temptation  of  our 
Lord,  not  for  all  with  which  the  enemy  tempted  the  Saviour 
of  men. — From  a  letter  to  his  brother-in-law^  the  Hon.  St. 
George    Tucker. 


LEOPOLD  RANKE, 

German  Historian.     (1795-1886.) 


^T  was  at  this  period  of  the  world's  development  that 
Jesus  Christ  was  born.  How  obscure  and  unpretend- 
ing was  His  life !  His  occupation  was  to  heal  the  sick 
and  to  discourse  of  God  in  parables  with  a  few  fisher- 
men, who  did  not  always  understand  His  words.  He  had 
not  where  to  lay  His  head.  Yet,  even  from  the  worldly 
point  of  view  whence  we  consider  it,  we  may  safely  assert 
that  nothing  more  guileless,  or  more  impressive,  or  more 
exalted,  or  more  holy,  has  ever  been  seen  on  earth  than  were 
His  life.  His  whole  conversation,  and  His  death.  In  His 
every  word  there  breathes  the  pure  spirit  of  God.  They  are 
words,  as  Peter  expressed  it,  of  eternal  life.  The  records  of 
humanity  present  nothing  that  can  be  compared,  however 
remotely,  with  the  life  of  Jesus.  As  on  the  coins  of  Con- 
stantine,  the  labarum,  with  the  monogram  of  Christ,  is  seen 
to  rise  above  the  conquered  dragon,  so  did  the  worship  and 
name  of  Jesus  exalt  itself  over  the  vanquished  gods  of  hea- 
thenism.— ^'History  of  the  Popes^  their  Church  mid  State ^'^^ 
by  Leopold  Ranke^  and  translated  by  E.  Foster^  Volume  ly 
pages  2,  3,  and  6. 


FRANCIS  A.  ROE, 

Rear-Admiral. 


HE  religion  of  Jesus  Christ,  and  its  Bible,  is  the  only 
source  or  fountain  of  righteousness,  justice  or  peace 
to  man  on  earth.  ^_^  ^^-^ 


Hi 


376  A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

JOHN  RAY, 

English  Naturalist.     (1628-1705.) 

vOR  the  cure  of  this  disease  an  humble,  serious,  hearty 
^Xch  repentance    is   the    only    physic;  not  to  expiate  the 
guilt  of  it,  but  to  qualify  us  to  partake  of  the  benefit 
of  Christ's  atonement. — Page  623,  ^^Allibone^s  Prose 
Quotations  y 

Let  us  admire  the  transcendent  and  unmerited  goodness 
of  God  in  doing  such  great  things  for  us  as  sending  His  Son 
into  the  world  to  take  our  nature  upon  Him,  to  suffer  death 
for  our  sins,  and  to  give  us  the  promise  of  eternal  life ;  and 
let  us  endeavor  in  some  measure  to  answer  this  love  by 
suitable  affection  of  the  most  ardent  gratitude  that  the  eter- 
nal Son  of  God,  equal  with  the  Father,  shall  so  highly 
advance  our  nature  as  to  unite  it  with  the  Divine  in  one 
Person. — ^^Life  of  Ray^^^  ^''Sunday  at  Home^^^  1876. 


THOMAS  BUCHANAN  READ, 

Poet  and  Artist.     (1822-1872.) 

THE  NATIVITY. 

HE  air  was  still  o'er  Bethlehem's  plain, 
As  if  the  great  night  held  its  breath, 
When  Life  Eternal  came  to  reign 
Over  a  world  of  death. 

All  nature  felt  a  thrill  Divine 

When  burst  that  meteor  on  the  night ; 

Which,  pointing  to  the  Saviour's  shrine, 
Proclaimed  the  new-born  Light, 

Light  to  the  shepherds  !  and  the  star 
Gilded  their  silent  midnight  fold  ; 

Light  to  the  wise  men  from  afar, 
Bearing  their  gifts  of  gold. 

Light  to  a  realm  of  sin  and  grief; 

Light  to  a  world  in  all  its  needs ; 
The  Light  of  Life,  a  new  belief, 

Rising  o'er  fallen  creeds. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES  377 

Light  on  a  tangled  path  of  thorns, 
Though  leading  to  a  martyr's  throne ; 

A  light  to  guide  till  Christ  returns 
In  glory  to  His  own. 

There  still  it  shines,  while  far  abroad 
The  Christmas  choir  sings  now,  as  then, 

"  Glory,  glory  unto  our  God ! 
Peace  and  good- will  to  men  !  " 


CHARLES  READE, 

English  Novelist.     ( 1814-1884.) 

jG^T^^  inscription  by  Mr.  Reade  may  be  found  on  pages 

\raL  335)  Volume  II,  of  "Charles  Reade,  a  Memoir,"  by 

^  (^  Charles  L.  Reade  and  the   Rev.    Compton   Reade. 

This  was  written  not  only  to  leave  behind  a  record 

of  his  religious  attitude,  but  to  silence  certain  critics  of  his 

time. 

This  inscription,  prepared  a  few  days  before  his  death,  ap- 
pears on  his  monument : 

Here  Lie 

By  the  Side  of  His  Beloved  Friend 

the    Mortal    Remains  of 

CHARLES  READE, 

Dramatist,  Novelist,  and  Journalist. 

His  last  words  to  Mankind  are  on  this  stone. 

I  hope  for  resurrection,  not  from  any  power  in  nature,  but 
from  the  will  of  the  Lord  God  Omnipotent,  who  made  na- 
ture and  me.  He  created  man  out  of  nothing,  which  nature 
could  not.  He  can  restore  man  from  the  dust,  which  nature 
can  not.  And  I  hope  for  holiness  and  happiness  in  a  future 
life,  not  for  anything  I  have  said  or  done  in  this  body,  but 
from  the  merits  and  mediation  of  Jesus  Christ.  He  has 
promised  His  intercession ;  once  granted,  can  not  be  rejected; 
for  He  is  God,  and  His  merits  are  infinite;  a  man's  sins  are 
but  human  and  finite.     "  Him  that  cometh  to  me,  I  will  in 


378  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

no  wise  cast  out."  ^'If  any  man  sin,  we  have  an  Advocate 
with  the  Father,  Jesus  Christ,  the  Righteous;  and  He  is  the 
propitiation  for  our  sins." 


WHITELAW  REID, 

Journalist,  Editor  of  the  New  York  Tribune,  and  Diplomat. 

SHOULD  have  little  respect  for  any  man  who  had 
reached  serious  years  and  had  not  given  much  seri- 
ous thought  to  the  questions  relating  to  religion  and 
a  future  state.  I  have  known  few  well-balanced  and 
intellectual  men,  of  mature  age,  who  either  did  not  have  a 
sincere  faith  in  the  revealed  doctrines  of  the  Holy  Bible  and 
of  the  religion  of  Jesus  Christ,  or  did  not  wish  they  might 
have — and  I  have  never  known  any  other  men  more  thor- 
oughly deserving  pity  than  those  who  could  not  realize  that 

CHARLES  FRANCIS  RICHARDSON, 

Author,  Journalist,  and  Educator. 


LOVE. 


)F  suddenly  upon  the  street 
My  gracious  Saviour  I  should  meet. 
And  He  would  say,  "As  I  love  thee, 
What  love  hast  thou  to  offer  Me  ?  " 
Then  what  could  this  poor  heart  of  mine 
Dare  to  offer  to  that  heart  Divine  ? 

His  eye  would  pierce  my  outward  show, 
His  thought  my  inmost  thought  would  know 
And  if  I  said,  "  I  love  Thee,  I^ord," 
He  would  not  heed  my  spoken  word, 
Because  my  daily  life  would  tell 
If  verily  I  loved  Him  well. 


A    CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 


379 


LORD  ROBERTS, 

British  Field-Marshal. 

M  LMIGHTY  FATHER,  I  have  often  sinned 
fji  against  Thee.  O  wash  me  In  the 
^^^  precious  blood  of  the  Lamb  of  God 
Fill  me  with  Thy  Holy  Spirit  that  I  may  lead 
a  new  life  Spare  me  to  see  again  those 
whom  I  love  at  home,  or  fit  me  for  Thy 
presence  in  peace. 

If  it  be  Thy  will,  enable  us  to  win  victory 
for  England  but  above  all  ^rant  us  the 
better  victory  over  temptation  and  sin.  over 
life  and  death,  that  've  may  be  more  than 
conquerors  through  Him  who  loved  us  and 
laid  down  His  life  for  us,  Jesus  our  Saviour, 
the  Captain  of  the  Army  of  God. 


y^  Amen. 


M 


JEAN  PAUL  FRED  RICHTER,    • 

German  Author.     (1763-1825.) 

)IVING  religion  grows  not  by  the  doctrines  but  by  the 

narratives  of  the  Bible ;  the  best  Christian  religious 

t^  doctrines  are  the  life  of  Jesus  Christ,  and  after  that 

the  sufferings  and  deaths  of  His  followers,  even  those 

not   spoken    of  in  the    Holy  Scriptures. — '^^Levana^  Second 

Fragment ^^''  Section  38,  Bohn  Edition. 


DAVID  RITTENHOUSE, 

Astronomer  and  Mathematician     (1732-1796.) 

IS  house  and  his  manner  of  living  exhibited  the  taste 
of  a  philosopher  and  the  temper  of  a  Christian.  His 
researches  into  natural  philosophy  gave  him  just 
ideas  of  the  Divine  perfections.  But  he  did  not  con- 
^ne  himself  to  the  instructions  of  nature ;  he  saw  the  neces- 
sity of  something  more;  he  believed  the  Christian  revelation. 


380  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

He  observed,  as  one  argument  in  favor  of  its  truth,  that  the 
miracles  of  our  Saviour  differed  entirely  from  all  pretended 
miracles,  in  being  entirely  of  a  benevolent  nature.  The  tes- 
timony of  a  man  possessed  of  an  exalted  understanding  to 
the  fullness  of  Christian  evidence  outweighs  the  declarations 
of  thousands. — Page  io2j^^^  The  Encyclopcsdia  of  Religious 
Knowledge  y 

CHARLES  RITTER, 

German  Geographer.     (1779-1859.) 

^N  respect  to  my  eternity  my  Saviour  and  my  Redeemer 
will  decide  according  to  His  grace.  While  deeply  con- 
scious of  my  unworthiness  and  sins,  I  am  still  trust- 
ing, because  I  know  that  God  is  the  everlasting  love 
and  mercy,  and  that  "my  Redeemer  liveth,"  who  maketh 
His  faithful  to  be  the  partakers  of  the  grace  of  the  eternal 
and  righteous. — Page  187,  ^^God^s  Witnesses  in  the  Kingdom 
of  Nature ^^  by  Otto  Boeckler^  Professor  in  the  University  of 
Greifswald. 

WILLIAM  CABELL  RIVES, 

United  States  Senator,  1832  and  1845;  Twice  Minister  to  France. 

(1793-1868.) 

.HE  blessings  of  a  free  government  cannot,  I  am  con- 
vinced, be  long  preserved  anywhere  but  by  the  influ- 
ence and  discipline  of  the  Christian  religion  deeply 
planted  in  the  hearts  and  lives  of  all  classes.  In  a 
popular  government  how  vital  the  necessity  that  this  sense 
of  responsibility  should  be  fortified  and  enforced,  in  the  minds 
of  both  the  people  and  their  agents,  by  those  sanctions  which 
the  Word  of  God  only  can  supply.  .  .  .  Build  upon  the 
sure  foundation — the  records  of  Divine  Truth  in  the  hands 
and  in  the  hearts  of  the  people,  as  the  ever-present  rule  and 
guide  of  life.  — ' '  Testimonies  to  the  Value  of  the  Sacred  Scrip- 
lures ^ ' '  by  the  American  Bible  Society, 


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A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSKS.  381 

THEODORE  ROOSEVELT, 

Governor  of  New  York;    late  Colonel  of  the  "Rough  Riders"; 
Twenty-sixth  President  of  the  United  States. 

BELIEVE  in  practical  or  applied  Christianity.  No 
sincere  Christian  will  leave  to  the  representatives  of 
Satan  the  strong  qualities.  Cultivate  the  qualities  of 
many-sided  strength.  I  want  you  not  only  to  be  able 
to  abstain,  but  I  want  you  to  be  able  to  hold  your  own  in  the 
world,  not  merely  to  endure,  but  to  fight  the  good  fight  of 
faith ;  not  merely  to  refrain  from  doing  evil,  but  to  war 
valiantly  for  righteousness  against  evil,  for  the  great  Captain 
of  your  salvation!  I  preach  "the  sword  of  the  Lord  and  of 
Gideon!" — Pari  of  an  Address  before  the  V.  M.  C.  A.  of  Al- 
bany, New  York^  March^  1899. 


JOHN  WILMOT  ROCHESTER, 

English  Author  and  Courtier.     (1647-1680.) 

kOR  the  benefit  of  those  whom  I  have  drawn  into  sin, 
j_  A  by  my  example  and  encouragement,  I  leave  the  world 
^  -^  this  my  last  declaration,  which  I  deliver  in  the  pres- 
^  ence  of  the  GREAT  GOD,  who  knows  the  secrets 
of  all  hearts,  and  before  whom  I  am  preparing  to  be  judged; 
that,  from  the  bottom  of  my  soul,  I  detest  and  abhor  the 
whole  course  of  my  wicked  life ;  that  I  can  never  sufficiently 
admire  the  goodness  of  God,  who  has  given  me  a  true  sense 
of  my  pernicious  opinions  and  vile  practices  by  which  I  have 
hitherto  lived,  without  hope,  and  without  God  in  the  world ; 
having  been  an  open  enemy  to  Jesus  Christ,  doing  the  utmost 
despite  to  the  Holy  Spirit  of  grace  ;  and  that  the  greatest 
testimony  of  my  charity  to  such  is  to  warn  them  in  the  name 
of  God,  and  as  they  regard  the  welfare  of  their  immortal 
souls,  no  more  to  deny  His  being  or  His  Providence,  or 
despise  His  goodness ;  no  more  to  make  a  mock  of  sin,  or 
contemn  the  pure  and  excellent  religion  of  my  ever  blessed 


382  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

Redeemer,  through  whose  merits  alone  I,  one  of  the  greatest 
of  sinners,  do  yet  hope  for  mercy  and  forgiveness.     Amen  ! 
Declared  and  signed  in  the  presence  of 

J.  Rochester, 
Ann  Rochester, 
Robert  Parsons. 
— From  a  small  Volume  ,by  Dr.  Burnet :  ^^Some  Passages  in 
i}ie  Life  and  Death  of  John ^  Earl  of  Rochester, ^^ 


GEORGE  JOHN  ROMANES,* 

British  Psychologist  and  Zoologist.     (1848-1894.) 

HE  doctrines  of  the  Incarnation  and  the  Trinity 
seemed  to  be  most  absurd  to  me  in  my  agnostic 
days.  Now  I  see  in  them  no  rational  difficulty  at 
all.  Once  it  seemed  to  me  impossible  that  any 
proposition,  verbally  intelligible  as  such,  could  be  more  vio- 
lently absurd  than  the  doctrine  of  the  Incarnation.  Now 
I  see  that  this  standpoint  is  wholly  irrational,  due  only  to 
the  blindness  of  reason  itself,  promoted  by  purely  scientific 
thought. 

Christ  foretold  repeatedly  that  while  those  who  received 
the  Holy  Ghost,  who  came  to  the  Father  through  faith  in 
the  Son,  who  were  born  again  of  the  Spirit,  would  be  abso- 
lutely certain  of  Christian  truth,  as  it  were,  by  direct  intuition. 
The  carnally  minded,  on  the  other  hand,  would  not  be  affected 
by  any  amount  of  direct  evidence,  even  though  one  rose  from 
the  dead — as  indeed  Christ  shortly  afterwards  did,  with  ful- 
iillment  of  this  prediction. 

One  of  the  strongest  pieces  of  objective  evidence  in  favor 
of  Christianity  is  not  sufficiently  enforced  by  apologists. 
Indeed,  I  am  not  aware  that  I  have  ever  seen  it  mentioned. 
It  is  the  absence  from  the  biography  of  Christ  of  any  doc- 
trines which  the  subsequent  growth  of  human  knowledge, 
whether   in  natural    science,  ethics,  or  elsewhere,  has   had 

*The  writer  of  "Thoughts"  returned  before  his  death  to  that  full,  de- 
liberate cotninunion  with  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  which  he  had  for  eo 
many  years  been  conscientiously  con.pelled  to  ^.ox^ 'go—  Editor. 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  385. 

to  discount.  This  negative  argument  is  almost  as  strong  as 
is  the  positive  one  from  what  Christ  did  teach.  For  when 
we  consider  that  in  literal  truth  there  is  no  reason  why  any 
of  His  words  should  ever  pass  away  in  the  sense  of  becom- 
ing obsolete. — ''^Thoughts  on  Religion^''''  by  George  John 
Romanes^  edited  by  Charles  Gore. 


SAMUEL  ROGERS, 

English  Poet.     (1763-1856.) 


oOj 


FROM  "THE  VOYAGE  OF  COEUMBUS." 

'OT  thine  the  olive,  but  the  sword  to  bring. 
Not  peace,  but  war  !     Yet  from  these  shores  shall  spring" 
Peace  without  end  ;  from  these,  with  blood  defiled, 
Spread  the  pure  spirit  of  thy.  Master  mild ! 
Here,  in  His  train,  shall  arts  and  arms  attend — ■ 
Arts  to  adorn,  and  arms  but  to  defend. 
Assembling  here,  all  nations  shall  be  blessed ; 
The  sad  be  comforted,  the  weary  rest ; 
Untouch'd  shall  drop  the  fetters  from  the  slave, 
And  He  shall  rule  the  world  He  died  to  save. 

—Ca?tto  XIL 


JOSEPH  COMPTON  RICKETT, 

Member  British  Parliament. 

^F  a  man  rejects  the  revelation  of  Jesus  Christ  do  not 
argue  with  him.  Send  him  to  the  nearest  preacher, 
making  his  direct  appeal  to  the  heart.  Since  we  must, 
have  religion,  and  a  religion  under  some  form,  we  may 
prove  to  our  opponents  that  the  best  available  one  is  Chris- 
tianity. The  argument  which  presses  home  upon  the  con- 
science the  claims  of  the  Bible  rests  on  the  fact  that  the  Book 
is  the  vehicle  of  Divine  revelation.  Like  the  ark  of  the 
Hebrews,  it  becomes  the  seat  of  revelation  when  the  Spirit 
of  God  descends  upon  it  in  living  flame;  the  Book  becomes 
a  precious  thing  illuminated  and  "glorified  on  every  page. — 
Address  at  the  Twenty  seventh  Annual  Meeting,  Christian 
Evidence  Society,  London. 


384  A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

HENRY  WADE  ROGERS, 

President  of  Northwestern  University;  Late  Dean  of   Law  School, 
University  of  Michigan. 

HEARTILY  accept  the  Bible  as  the  Word  of  God, 
and  sincerely  believe  in  Jesus  Christ  as  the  Saviour  of 
men.  The  happiness  and  the  peace  of  the  world  are 
dependent  on  the  inspired  doctrines  which  the  book 
teaches,  and  which  Jesus  of  Nazareth  proclaimed  among  the 
people.  The  hope  of  the  nations  lies  in  the  acceptance  of  the 
principles  of  the  Christian  religion.  The  most  perfect  man- 
hood and  womanhood  is  that  which  most  nearly  conforms  to 
the  Christian  ideals. 


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PETER  MARK  ROGET, 

English  Physician,  Physiologist,  and  Writer.     (1779-1869.) 

"APPILY  there  has  been  vouchsafed  to  us,  from  a 
higher  source,  a  pure  and  heavenly  light  to  guide  our 
faltering  steps  and  animate  our  fainting  spirit  in 
this  dark  and  dreary  research ;  revealing  those  truths 
which  imports  us  most  of  all  to  know,  giving  to  mortality 
higher  sanctions ;  elevating  our  powers  and  our  affections 
to  nobler  objects  that  belong  to  earth,  and  inspiring  more 
exalted  themes  of  thanksgiving  and  praise. — Page  447,  Vol- 
ume 11^  in  Bridgewater  Treatise  of ''''Animal  and  Vegetable 
Physiology ^^  by  Peter  Mark  Roget^  late  Secretary  of  the 
Royal  Society^  and  author  of  ^^  Thesaurus  of  English  Words 
and  Phrases.^'' 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  385 

CHARLES  ROLLIN, 

French   Historian.     (1661-1741.) 

E  see  here  the  principal  fruits  to  be  derived  from 
the  study  of  profane  history,  of  which  every  page 
declares  what  mankind  were  during  so  many 
ages,  and  what  we  ourselves  would  still  have 
been  had  not  the  peculiar  mercy  which  made  known  the 
Saviour  of  the  world  to  us  drawn  us  out  of  the  abyss  in 
which  all  our  forefathers  were  swallowed  up.  "  It  is  of  the 
Lord's  mercies  we  are  not  consumed!  "  A  mercy  freely  and 
entirely  conferred,  which  we  have  no  power  to  deserve  in 
any  manner  of  ourselves,  and  for  which  we  ought  to  render 
eternal  homage  of  gratitude  and  praise  to  the  grace  of  Jesus 
Christ. — From  ^^ Conclusion  of  the  Whole  Work^''  Volume  11^ 
page  626,  Rollings  Ancient  History. 


JEAN   JACQUES  ROUSSEAU, 

French  Philosopher  and  Writer.     (1712-1778.) 

WILL  confess  to  you,  that  the  majesty  of  the  Scrip- 
tures strikes  me  with  admiration,  as  the  purity  of  the 
Gospel  has  its  influence  upon  my  heart.  Peruse  the 
works  of  our  philosophers,  with  all  their  pomp  of 
diction,  hOw  mean,  how  contemptible,  are  they  compared 
with  the  Scriptures  !  Is  it  possible  that  a  Book,  at  once  so 
sublime  and  so  simple,  can  be  the  work  of  man  ?  Is  it  pos- 
sible that  the  Person  whose  history  it  relates  be  Himself  a 
mere  man?  .  .  .  Yes,  if  the  life  and  death  of  Socrates 
are  those  of  a  philosopher,  the  life  and  death  of  Jesus 
Christ  are  those  of  a  God.  Should  we  suppose  the  Gospel 
was  a  story,  invented  to  please?  It  is  not  in  this  manner 
that  we  forge  tales ;  for  the  actions  of  Socrates,  of  which  no 
person  has  the  least  doubt,  are  less  satisfactorily  attested 
than  those  of  Jesus  Christ. — '^Emilius  and  Sophia^^^  Vol. 
III^  Book  /F,  pages  136  and  139    {English  Edition^  ^7^7) 


386  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

DANTE  GABRIEL  ROSETTI, 

British  Painter  and    Poet.     (1828-1882.) 
COMMUNION   HYMN. 


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_^^N  a  fair  Sabbath-day,  when  his  banquet  is  spread, 
It  is  pleasant  to  feast  with  my  Eord; 

*|^  His  stewards  stand  robed  at  the  foot  and  the  head 
Of  the  soul-filling,  life-giving  board. 

No  feast  where  the  stomach  alone  hath  its  fill — 

He  gives  me  His  body  and  blood; 
The  blood  and  the  body  (I'll  think  of  it  still) 

Of  my  Lord,  which  is  Christ,  which  is  God. 


FRIEDRICH  RUCKERT, 

German  Lyric  Poet  and  Orientalist.     (1788-1866.) 


BETHLEHEM  AND  GOLGOTHA. 

^ 

^  ^  THOU  who  in  a  manger  lying, 

<E/      Wert  willing  to  be  born  a  child,. 
(^    And  on  the  Cross  in  anguish  dying, 
The  world  to  God  hast  reconciled  ! 
To  pride,  how  mean  Thy  lowly  manger ! 
How  infamous  Thy  Cross  !  yet  stranger ! 
Humility  became  the  law 
At  Bethlehem  and  Golgotha. 

Proud  kings,  to  worship  One  descended 
From  humble  shepherds,  thither  came ; 

And  nations  to  the  Cross  have  wended 
As  pilgrims  to  adore  His  name. 

By  war's  fierce  tempest  rudely  battered. 

The  world  but  not  the  Cross  was  shattered 
When  East  and  West  it  struggling  saw 
Round  Bethlehem  and  Golgotha. 


A  CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  387 

LORD  JOHN  RUSSELL, 

British  Statesman.     (1792-1878.) 

PREFER  the  simple  words  of  Christ  to  any  dogmatic 

interpretation  of  them,  and  accept  the  fundamental 

truths  of  Christianity,  the  only  revealed  religion,  as 

the  basis  of  my  faith.     (*)  I  fall  back  on  the  faith  of 

my  childhood. — See  his  Life^  by  Stuart  J.  Reid, 

*  His  dying  words. 


PETER  PAUL  RUBENS, 

Flemish   Painter,     (i 577-1640.) 

.HE  best  of  the  examples  that  Leonardo  has  left  us  in 
the  Lord's  Supper,  in  which  he  has  represented  the 
Apostles  in  places  suitable  to  them,  but  our  Saviour  is 
in  the  midst  of  them  all,  being  the  most  honorable, 
having  no  figure  near  enough  to  press  or  incommode  Him. 
His  attitude  is  grave.  His  arms  are  in  a  loose,  free  posture, 
to  show  the  greater  grandeur ;  while  the  Apostles  appear  in 
agitation,  by  their  vehement  desire  to  know  which  of  them 
should  betray  their  master.  —  Written  in  Ruben'* s  own  hand 
in  a  Latin  manuscript^  and  translated  by  De  Piles.  See  page 
524,  Vol.  11^  of  ^^ A  General  Directory  of  Painter s^^^  by 
Matthew  Pilkington. 


LORD  WILLIAM  RUSSELL, 

English  Patriot.     (1639-1683.) 

HAVE  the  assurance  of  the  love  and  mercy  of  God,  in 
and  through  my  blessed  Redeemer,  in  whom  I  trust; 
and  I  do  not  question  but  I  am  going  to  partake  of 
that  fulness  of  joy  which  is  in  His  presence  forever- 
jnore. — Page  112,  Volume  II  of  ^^  The  Life  of  Lord  William 


388  A   CI.OUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

Russell^  with  Some  Account  of  the  Times  in  which  he  Lived^'^ 
by  Lord  John  Russell. 

BENJAMIN  RUSH, 

Physician ;  Signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 

^  (.745-8.3.) 

r  l^ Y  excellent  wife,  I  must  leave  you,  but  God  will  take 
.  ^\.  ^^^^  of  yoVi.     By  the  mystery  of  Thy  holy  incarna- 
^^^kr^  tion  ;  by  Thy  holy  nativity  ;  by  Thy  baptism,  fasting, 
and  temptation;  by  Thine  agony  and  bloody  sweat ; 
by   Thy    cross   and  passion ;    by  Thy    precious   death   and 
burial ;  by  Thy  glorious  resurrection  and  ascension,  and  by 
the  coming  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  blessed  Jesus,  wash  away  all 
my  impurities,  and  receive  me   into  Thy  everlasting  king- 
dom.— Page  45,  ^^ American  Medical  Biography.'''' 

I  know  there  is  an  objection  among  many  people  to  teach- 
ing children  doctrines  of  any  kind,  because  they  are  liable  to 
be  controverted.  But  let  us  not  be  wiser  than  our  Maker.  If 
moral  precepts  alone  could  have  reformed  mankind,  the  mis- 
sion of  the  Son  of  God  into  all  the  world  would  have  been 
unnecessary.  The  perfect  morality  of  the  Gospel  rests  upon 
the  doctrine  which,  though  often  controverted  has  never 
been  refuted :  I  mean  the  vicarious  life  and  death  of  the  Son 
of  God. — ^^ Essays^  Literary^  Moral^  and  Philosophical^^''  (1798^ 
2d  ed.^  1806.) 

JACOB  RUSH, 

Lawyer;  Chief-Justice  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania. 
%^  (X746-XS.O.) 

'^^''OU  have  imbrued  your  hands  in  innocent  blood  for 


<^ 


-\\   the  sake  of  a  little  money.     And  though  the  water 

Z  ^^^S^  ^f  the   mountain  hath  washed  the  stain  from  your 

garments,  and  from  your  hands,  yet  oceans  of  water 

can  never  wash  away  the  stain  of  guilt  from  your  conscience. 

Nothing  can  possibly  do  this   but  the  efficacious  and  all- 


A   CLOUD   OF   WiTNEvSSES.  389 

<:leansing  blood  of  a  SAVIOUR.  Be  advised,  therefore,  to 
set  about  the  great  duty  of  repentance,  and  working  out  your 
salvation  with  fear  and  trembling. — Extract  from  a  Se7itejtce 
to  a  prisoner  guilty  of  murder.  See  ^^  Charges  on  Moral  and 
Religious  Subjects ^^^  by  Jacob  Rush. 


JOHN  RUSKIN, 

English  Art  Writer. 

^T^  FIRM    word    con- 

^C^Sl.     cerning  Christian- 

^  Cy^  ity  itself  .  .  . 
what  was  the  to- 
tal meaning  of  it?  .  .  . 
The  total  meaning  was,  and 
is,  that  the  God  who  made 
earth  and  its  creatures  took 
at  a  certain  time  upon  the 
earth  the  flesh  and  form  of 
man  ;  in  that  flesh  sustained 
pain,  and  died  the  death  of 
the  creature  He  had  made ; 
rose   again    after    the    dead 

into  a  glorious  human  life,  and  when  the  date  of  the  human 
race  is  ended  will  return  in  visible  form  and  render  to 
every  man  according  to  his  work.  Christianity  is  the  belief 
in,  and  the  love  of,  God  thus  manifested. —  Vohmie  II, 
^^Ruskiit^s  Prceterita?'' 

The  English  people  are  in  possession  of  a  Book  which  tells 
them,  straight  from  the  lips  of  God,  all  they  ought  to  do  and 
need  to  know.  I  have  read  that  Book  with  as  much  care  as 
the  most  of  them  for  some  forty  years;  and  am  thankful  that 
on  those  who  trust  it  I  can  press  its  pleadings.  My  en- 
deavor has  uniformly  been  to  make  them  trust  it  more  deeply 
than  they  do ;  trust  it,  not  in  their  own  favorite  verses  only, 


390  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

but  in  the  sum  of  all ;  trust  it,  not  as  a  fetich  or  talisman 
which  they  are  to  be  saved  by  daily  repetition  of,  but  as  a 
Captain's  order,  to  be  obeyed  at  their  peril. — See  Preface  to 
* '  The  Crown  of  Olives. ' ' 


■  THE  RIGHT  HONORABLE  LORD  REAY, 

Late  Governor  of  Bombay ;  President  Royal  Asiatic  Society  and  Univer- 
sity College,  London ;  Chairman  London  School  Board. 

,HERE  is  no  necessity  to  re-unite  Christians.  Chris- 
tians are  united.  Christians  ought  to  work  together 
for  the  cause  of  Christ.  Christ  is  the  great  Head  of 
the  Church.  Christ  is  living  among  us.  We  should 
aim  to  bring  a  living  Saviour  to  the  homes  of  what  is  called 
the  lapsed  classes,  and  to  bring  the  Divine  Scriptures  to  them 
as  in  apostolic  days. — London  City  Magazine^  June^  1896. 


JAMES  P.  RUSLING, 

Lawyer  and  General. 


THINK  Jesus  Christ  is  incomparable,  and  the  Holy 
Scriptures  inestimable.     They  are  the  chiefest  mir- 
acles of  all  time,  and  the  supreme  good  of  the  world 
to-day  and  forever.     Christ   and  the  Bible  are   the 
complete  and  absolute  Revelations  of  God. 


I  will  tell  you  why  I  felt  confident  we  would  win  at  Gettysburg. 
Before  the  battle  I  retired  alone  to  my  room  in  the  White  House  and 
got  down  on  my  knees  and  prayed  to  Almighty  God  to  give  us  the 
victory.  I  said  to  Him  that  this  was  His  war,  and  that  if  He  would 
stand  by  the  Nation  now,  I  would  stand  by  Him  the  rest  of  my  life. 
He  gave  us  the  victory  and  I  propose  to  keep  my  pledge. — President 
Lincoln's  Conversation  with  Generals  Rusting  and  Sickles. 


A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES.  39I 

JAMES  WHITCOMB  RILEY, 

Poet. 


EXTRACTS  FROM  -AFTERWHILES.' 


First  graven  in  symbols  of  stone, 


^^ 


^X^ET  never  the  Story  may  tire  us, 

^^32*  Rewritten  on  scrolls  of  papyrus 

And  parchment,  and  scattered  and  blown 

By  the  winds  of  the  tongues  of  all  nations, 
lyike  a  litter  of  leaves  wildly  whirled 

Down  the  rack  of  a  hundred  translations, 
From  the  earliest  lisp  of  the  world. 


By  the  splendor  in  the  Heavens,  and  the  hush  upon  the  sea, 
And  the  majesty  of  silence  reigning  over  Galilee, 
We  feel  Thy  kingly  presence,  and  we  humbly  bow  the  knee, 
And  lift  our  hearts  and  voices  in  gratefulness  to  Thee. 

Thy  messenger  has  spoken,  and  our  doubts  have  fled  and  gone 
As  the  dark  and  spectral  shadows  of  the  night  before  the  dawn ; 
And,  in  the  kindly  shelter  of  the  light  around  us  drawn, 
We  would  nestle  down  forever  in  the  breast  we  lean  upon. 

You  have  given  us  a  Shepherd,  You  have  given  us  a  Guide, 

And  the  light  of  Heaven  grew  dimmer  when  You  sent  Him  from  Your 

side; 
But  He  comes  to  lead  Thy  children  where  the  gates  will  open  wide 
To  welcome  His  returning  when  His  works  are  glorified. 


JOSEPH  RUSTON, 

Member  of  Parliament. 


<HERE  are  some  people  who  seem  to  say  :  *'  Leave  the 
Christianity  of  your  missions  alone,  and  take,  if  you 
like,  civilization  to  these  people ;  teach  them  their 
duty  to  their  neighbor;  teach  them  to  give  up  their 
horrible  practices  of  cruelty  and  fraud."    From  such  an  advo- 


392  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

cate  I  want  to  know  where  he  gets  his  humanity  from.  I  say 
the  highest  humanity  is  to  be  found  in  the  teachings  of 
Christ ;  and  if  you  take  them  the  teachings  of  Christ  you 
will  have  given  them  that  which  is  a  higher  humanity  than 
can  be  found  elsewhere.  ...  I  think  there  is  no  agency  in 
connection  with  the  Christian  Church  which  is  so  dear  to  the 
heart  of  Christian  people  as  that  of  missions.  We  all  remem- 
ber the  time  of  our  childhood,  how  our  hearts  were  thrilled, 
and  how  an  enthusiasm  was  kindled,  by  the  recital  of  mis- 
sionaries of  their  Christian  work ;  and  even  now,  in  our 
maturer  years,  that  enthusiasm,  if  it  has  become  somewhat 
sobered,  has  become  characterized  by  a  not  less  intense  zeal. 
— From  a  speech  delivered  in  Exeter  Hall  before  the  London 
Missionary  Society, 


LEVERETT  SALTONSTALL, 

Lawyer. 

HAT  has  Jesus  Christ  not  done  for  humanity? 
It  is  impossible  to  picture  to  the  imagination  the 
world  as  it  would  be  to-day  without  the  wondrous 
power  and  influence  which  for  eighteen  centuries 
has  impelled  His  followers  to  everything  great  and  good  they 
have  accomplished.  The  blessings  of  home,  with  honor, 
truth,  righteousness,  charity,  and  all  the  higher  virtues,  pro- 
ceed from  Jesus  Christ.  The  greatness  and  glory  of  Greece, 
with  her  schools  of  philosophy,  her  magnificent  shrines,  her 
poetry,  eloquence,  and  art,  were  long  past  their  meridian,  and 
were  fast  fading  into  insignificance,  while  the  Roman  Em- 
pire was  just  bursting  into  power  and  splendor,  when  Jesus 
was  born  in  an  obscure  province  of  this  great  empire,  His 
Gospel  destined  to  shed  its  blessed  light  over  its  remotest 
corner,  until  now  it  illuminates  the  civilized  world — miracle 
of  miracles !  Truly,  at  the  name  of  Jesus  Christ  all  hearts 
should  overflow  with  love  and  gratitude,  especially  at  that 
holy  season  commemorative  of  His  birth. — Christian  Regis- 
ter^ December  22,  1887. 


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A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  393 

IRA  DAVID  SANKEY, 

Vocalist,  and  Composer  of  Sacred  Music. 

FEW  years  ago  it  was  said  that  the  old  Bible  was^ 
passing  away;  that  Science  was  going  to  remove 
^  (^  the  Bible.  This  puts  me  in  mind  of  an  incident  I 
heard  recently.  An  Irishman  was  building  a  stone 
wall,  and  one  of  these  wise  philosophers  came  along,  and 
said,  ^'  Patrick,  that  wall  will  fall  down.  I  would  not  build 
any  more."  Patrick  replied,  "My  dear  sir,  I  call  your  atten- 
tion to  this  fact,  that  I  am  building  this  wall  four  feet  thick 
and  three  feet  high,  and  when  it  tumbles  over  it  will  be  taller 
than  it  was  before."  So  I  say  about  the  Bible,  when  they 
have  upset  the  Bible,  it  will  be  larger  than  before. 

I  am  glad  to  see  these  two  flags  here  to-day,  representing 
the  two  great  English-speaking  nations  that  are  to  lead  the 
van  of  Christianity,  and  to  bring  light  and  joy  to  all  nations 
of  the  earth.  I  am  in  favor  of  every  institution  that  will 
hold  up  Jesus  Christ  as  the  great  essential  magnet  for  both 
countries  and  all  lands.  ...  As  we  gather  together 
in  Jesus'  name,  the  great  moral  Christian  sense  of  these  two 
nations  will  say  to  the  politicians,  "  No  more  war." 
There  can  be  no  war  where  Christ's  doctrines  are  held  and 
believed.  Jesus  Christ  came  along  with  this  blessed  message, 
''  Peace  on  earth,  and  good  will  to  men  !  " — From  his  Address 
at  the  International  Christian  Endeavor  Convention^  Neii^ 
York^July  7-10,  1892. 


SIR  JOSEPH  SAVORY, 

Lord   Mayor  of   London. 

HRIST  is  the   Saviour  of  the  world,  ''the  Lord   our 
1^^  Righteousness."     ''His    name   shall    endure    forever 
His  name  shall  be  continued  as  long  as  the  sun,  and 
men  shall  be  blessed  in  Him,  all  nations  shall  call 
Him  blessed." 


394  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

I  believe  that  the  Bible  is  the  Word  of  God,  the  sword  of 
the  Spirit,  given  to  us  for  use  in  our  conflicts  with  the  world, 
the  flesh,  and  the  devil.  I^et  us  search  the  Holy  Scriptures, 
for  they  testify  of  Jesus  Christ,  and  are  able  to  make  us  wise 
tinto  salvation. 


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2 


THE  MARQUIS  OF  SALISBURY, 

Prime  Minister  of  Great  Britian. 


<2/ 


'^'^  UR  conquest  is  an  invitation  from  Providence  to  take 
advantage  of  the  means  to  spread  the  Gospel     .     . 

^^  The  Cross  of  Christ  must  shine  upon  the  peoples  of 
this  world  with  unblemished  splendor  .  .  .  Caution 
within  the  limits  of  devotion  and  enthusiasm  is  the  duty  of 
our  missionaries  in  foreign  lands,  who  not  only  preach  the 
Gospel  of  the  Son  of  God,  but  are  also  representing  to  the 
eyes  of  the  inhabitants  to  whom  they  preach  the  character 
jand  aims  of  the  people  from  whom  they  come.  They  must 
3iot  abandon  the  earnest  prosecution  of  their  life  work,  namely, 
the  spreading  of  the  worship  of  Christ  and  obedience  to  His 
Cross;  but  prudence  is  necessary  in  order  that  their  devotion 
and  sacrifice  may  succeed. — See  Address  before  the  Bicen- 
ienary  of  the  Society  for  the  Promulgation  of  the  Gospel  in 
JForeign  Parts. 


JOHN  GODFREY  SAXE, 

Poet.     (1816-1887.) 


THE  OIvD  CHAPEIy  BEI.I.. 


I  never  tolled  a  deeper  knell, 

Than  when,  in  after  years. 
They  laid  her  in  the  churchyard  here, 

Where  this  low  mound  appears, 
(The  veiy  grave,  my  boy,  that  you 

Are  watering  now  with  tears  ! ) 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  395 

//  is  thy  mother  !  gentle  boy, 

That  claims  this  tale  of  mine. 
Thou  art  a  flower  whose  fatal  birth 

Destroyed  the  parent  vine  ! 
A  precious  flower  art  thou,  my  child 

TWO  LIVES  WERE  GIVEN  FOR  THINE  f 

One  was  thy  sainted  mother's,  when 

She  gave  thee  mortal  birth  ; 
And  one  the  Saviour's,  when  in  death 

He  shook  the  solid  earth  ! 
Go,  boy,  and  live  as  may  befit 

Thy  life's  exceeding  worth ! 


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FRIEDRICH  WILHELM  SCHELLING, 

German    Philosopher.     (1775-1854.) 

v>S  regards  the  hypothesis  that  the  life  of  Christ  wai5 
adorned  by  myths   I  suppose  that    every  one  will 


^  {oy  admit  that  only  such  a  life  is  glorified  by  myths 
and  legends  as  has  been  already  in  some  manner 
distinguished  and  moved  into  a  higher  region.  Now  the 
question  is,  How,  in  this  Jewish  country,  did  rabbi  Jesus  be- 
come the  object  of  such  glorification?  Was  it  in  virtue  of 
His  teaching?  The  stones  which  they  took  up  show  how 
the  Jews  received  this.  What,  then,  is  the  presuppositioir 
which  may  render  so  extraordinary  a  glorification  probable? 
Only  if  we  grant  that  Christ  passed  for  what  we  have  recog^ 
nized  Him  to  be^  is  it  conceivable  that  in  consequence  of 
this  opinion  certain  ''  myths  "  may  have  arisen.  But  if  we 
grant  this,  we  must  presuppose  the  entire  dignity  of  Christ, 
quite  independently  of  the  Gospels.  It  is  not  the  Gospels 
which  are  necessary  in  order  that  we  may  recognize  the 
majesty  of  Christ,  but  it  is  the  dignity  of  Christ  which  is  nec- 
essary in  order  that  we  may  be  able  to  comprehend  the  Gospel 
narratives.  — '''' Philosophie  der  Offenbarung^^  Sammtliche 
Werke^  Part  11^  Volume  IV^  page  233. 


39^  A  CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

KARL  WILHELM  FRIEDRICH  VON 
SCHLEGEL, 

German  Philosopher  and  Critic.     (1772-1829.) 

'NQUIRY  into  the  history  of  universal  mental  culture 
has  almost  everywhere  shown  that  art,  history,  science 
are  but  so  many  developments,  illustrations,  or  figur- 
ative applications  of  the  imperishable  Word  of  Divine 
Revelation. 

Eminent  Protestants  have  recently  acknowledged  and 
vindicated  the  Divine  origin  of  the  Bible  and  the  Divinity 
of  Christ  in  a  peculiar  and  somewhat  novel  way.  This  is 
only  an  additional  testimony  to  the  truth  as  an  earnest  of 
its  triumphs: 

Christian  perfection  and  blessedness  are  sublimely  veiled 
in  these  three  holy  books,  as  in  a  cloud.  Job  shows  us  faith 
in  the  heroic  endurance  of  suffering;  Solomon  declares  to 
us  lyove  in  symbolic  mystery,  whilst  the  Psalms  breathe 
forth  hope  in  the  struggle  of  earthly  aspiration.  In  the 
latter,  Christ,  the  eternal  Word  of  life  and  reconciliation, 
everywhere  clearly  represents  Himself,  and  therefore  the 
Psalms  have  ever  been,  and  will  continue  to  be  for  all  Chris- 
tian time,  the  principal  chant  in  all  Church  melody.  They 
delineate  the  meeting  of  the  Father  and  the  Son,  the  anxious 
longing  of  the  Son  to  be  once  more  with  the  Father  after  a 
painful  separation,  and  the  merciful  condescension  of  the 
Father,  as  they  seek  out  each  other  in  the  surges  of  creation, 
and  approach  each  other  on  the  central  grounds  of  love. — 
Pages  394,  392,  and  ()()^  ^^SchlegeVs  History  of  Literature ^ 


JOHANN  CHRISTOPH  FRIEDRICH 
SCHILLER, 

German  Poet.     (1759-1805.) 

OVE  is  the  ladder  by  which  w^e  climb  up  to  the  like- 
ness of  God.      Unconsciously   to  ourselves,   without 
^  laying  claim  to  it,  we  aim  at  this. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  397 

Friendless  was  the  great  world's  Master ; 
And  feeling  this,  He  made  the  spirit  world 
Blessed  mirrors  of  His  own  blessedness  ! 
And  though  the  Highest  found  no  equal, 
Yet  infinitude  foams  upward  unto  Him 
From  the  vast  basin  of  creation's  realm. 

Let  us  become  intimate  with  the  high  ideal  unity,  and  we 
shall  be  drawn  to  one  another  in  brotherly  love.  If  we 
plant  beauty  and  joy,  we  shall  reap  beauty  and  joy.  If  we 
think  clearly,  we  shall  love  ardently.  ''  Be  ye  perfect,  as 
your  Father  in  Heaven  is  perfect,"  says  the  Founder  of  our 
faith.  Weak  human  nature  turned  pale  at  this  command, 
therefore  He  explained  Himself  in  clearer  terms :  ''  L<ove  one 

another !  " 

Wisdom,  with  thy  sunlike  look. 
Awful  goddess !  turn  thee  back, 

And  give  wa}^  to  Love, 
Who  before  thee  went,  with  hero  heart, 
Up  the  steep  and  stony  path 
To  the  Godhead's  very  throne, 
Who,  unveiling  the  Holiest, 
Showed  to  thee  Elysium 
Through  the  vaulted  sepulchre. 

—  Volume  IV ^  of  Poems  and  Essays  {Household  Editiori)   by 
Johaiin  C.  F.  Schiller. 


LEONHARD  SCHMITZ, 

German  Philologist ;  Principal  of  the  London  College  of  the  Interna- 
tional Educational  Society. 

.HE  sacred  history  of  the  Jews,  moreover,  is  of  that 
peculiar  kind  that  it  ought  not  to  be  placed  upon  a 
level  with  that  of  less  favorable  nations,  it  being  essen- 
tially of  a  religious  character,  and  everyone  ought  to 
learn  it  from  the  Holy  Scriptures  themselves,  rather  than 
from  any  summary  abridgement. 

The  most  eventful  occurrence  which  marks  it  is  the  birth 


398  A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  at  Bethlehem  in  Judea.  His  birth 
is  the  beginning  of  the  Christian  era,  and  the  date  of  the 
present  year  marks  the  number  supposed  to  have  elapsed 
since  His  birth,  but  the  more  accurate  chronological  calcula- 
tion has  shown  that  the  birth  of  Christ  must  be  dated  four  or 
five  years  before  the  commencement  of  the  vulgar  era. — Pref- 
ace and  page  482  of^^A  Manual  of  Ancient  History ^^^  by  Dr. 
Leonhard  Schmitz. 


JOHN  McAllister  schofield, 

General-in-Chief  of  the  United  States  Army. 

'N  reply  to  your  letter,  I  do  not  hesitate  to  say  that  in 
my  opinion  modern  civilization  owes  all  to  Christ  and 
the  Bible. 

Christianity  has  established  its  claim  to  Divine  ori- 
gin by  its  own  good  works.  It  has  already  ameliorated  vastly 
the  condition  of  man  in  all  countries  where  it  has  found  a 
foothold,  and  in  proportion  to  the  degree  in  which  it  has 
commanded  the  practical  assent  of  the  people.  Even  the 
horrors  of  war  have  been  more  than  half  removed  by  very 
imperfect  attempts  to  follow  the  dictates  of  the  religion  of 
Christ,  and  as  time  advances  and  as  Christian  principles 
become  more  and  more  the  guide  of  men,  wars  will  become 
less,  and  less  injurious  to  the  human  race,  and  it  is  to  be 
hoped  may  finally  cease.  It  is  no  longer  necessary  to  discuss 
questions  of  authenticity  of  the  Bible — by  the  fruits  of  its 
teachings  we  know  it.  The  moral  precepts  and  rules  of 
action  therein  contained  are  the  best  guide  known  to  man  for 
his  government  on  earth.  This  I  believe  to  be  the  almost 
universal  judgment  of  candid  men  who  have  impartially  ob- 
served the  operation  of  the  various  moral  forces  that  have 
been  potential  in  the  affairs  of  the  human  race. 


A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


399 


SIR  WALTER  SCOTT, 

Scottish  Novelist  and  Poet.     (1771-1832.) 

|H,  on  that  day,  that  wrathful  day, 
When  man  to  judgment  wakes  from  clay, 
Be  Thou,  O  Christ,  the  sinner's  stay, 
Though  heaven  and  earth  shall  pass  away. 

Within  this  awful  Volume  lies 
The  mystery  of  mysteries. 
Happiest  they,  of  human  race, 
To  whom  our  God  has  granted  grace 
To  read,  to  fear,  to  hope,  to  pray. 
To  lift  the  latch,  and  force  the  way ; 
And  better  had  they  ne'er  been  born 
Who  read  to  doubt,  or  read  to  scorn. 

—  The  Monastery,  Chapter  XII. 


"a  wish  that  I 
to   him,    and 


^'Here    he    expressed," 
writing  of  Sir  Walter  Scott's 
fatal  illness, 
should   read 

when  I  asked  from  what 
book,  he  said,  'Need  you 
ask  ?  There  is  but  one  ! ' 
I  chose  the  fourteenth  chap- 
ter of  St.  John's  Gospel.  He 
listened  with  mild  devotion, 
and  said  when  I  had  done, 
^  Well,  this  is  a  great  com- 
fort. I  have  followed  you 
distinctly,  and  I  feel  as  if  I  were  yet  to  be  myself  again," — 
Page  729  of  ^''Memoirs  of  the  Life  of  Scott  ^^^  by  J.  G.  Lockhart, 

The  most  learned,  acute,  and  diligent  student  can  not,  in 
the  longest  life,  obtain  an  entire  knowledge  of  this  one  Vol- 
ume. The  more  deeply  he  works  the  mine,  the  richer  and 
more  abundant  he  finds  the  ore ;  new  light  continually 
beams  from  this  source  of  heavenly  knowledge  to  direct  the 
conduct,  and  illustrate  the  work  of  God  and  the  ways  of  men  ; 


400  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

and  he  will  at  last  leave  the  world  confessing-  that  the  more 
he  studied  the  Scriptures  the  fuller  conviction  he  had  of  his 
own  ignorance^  and  of  their  inestimable  value. — Page  74  of 
Allibone^s  Prose  Quotations. 


JACOB  GOULD  SCHURMAN, 

President  of  Cornell  University. 

HAT  thinking  mind  can  escape  the  embrace  of  the 
Infinite  Spirit?  I  believe  in  God  as  Universal 
Father,  and  in  Jesus  Christ,  His  Son,  as  the  reve- 
lation of  His  character  to  men.  I  hold  the  Bible 
to  be  a  guide  to  God,  thojjgh  a  guijk^  needing  reinterpxeta- 
tion  with  every  advance  of  human  knowledge,  insight  and 
experience.  My  religious  faith  is  as  independent  of  historical 
criticism  as  it  is  of  natural  science,  and  it  regards  conflicting 
theories  with  equal  candor  and  with  equal  indifference.  I 
am  a  friend  of  all  the  churches  and  organizations,  however 
designated,  which  aim,  each  in  its  own  way,  to  express  the 
Divinity  of  Jesus  Christ. 


MAXIMILIAN  De  BETHUNE  SULLY, 

Duke  of  Sully;  Prime  Minister  to  Henry  IV.     (1560-1641.) 

HOSO  believeth  the  Apostles'  Creed  and  dies  obedi- 
ent to  the  Decalogue — in  charity  with  his  neigh- 
bor, loving  God  with  all  his  heart,  and  trusting 
in  the  mercy  and  merits  of  Christ's  death — can 
not  fail  to  be  saved,  whatever  the  sect  may  be  to  which  he 
belongs. — Page  259,  '"''Henry  of  Navarre^^^  and  the  Hugue- 
nots of  France^  by  W.  F.  Wilier t. 


inm!  ^ 


CHIEF-JUSTICES  UNITED  STATES  SUPREME  COURT. 


Morris  Remick  Waite,  of  Ohio, 

Chief-Justice,  1 874-1 888, 
Page  478. 

John  Jay,  of  New  York, 

Chief-Justice,  1789-1795, 
Page  2^1. 

Oliver  Ellsworth,  of  Connecticut, 

Chief-Justice,  1 796-1800, 
Page  141. 


Samuel  Portland  Chase,  of  Ohio. 

Chief-Justice,  1 864-1 873, 
Page  79. 

Roger  Brooke  Taney,  of  Maryland, 

Chief-Justice,  1836- 1864, 
Page44s. 

John  Marshall,  of  Virginia, 

Chief-Justice,  1801-1835, 
Page  ^08. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  40I 

WINFIELD  SCOTT, 

Lieutenant-General.     (1786-1866.) 

E  is  no  cheap  Judas.  I  do  not  think  he  would  have 
sold  our  Saviour  for  thirty  shillings ;  but  lor  the  suc- 
cessorship  of  Pontius  Pilate  he  would  have  betrayed 
Christ  and  the  Apostles  and  the  whole  Christian 
Church. — Criticism  of  a  certain  Political  Character.  See 
page  96,  ''''Recollections  of  President  Lincoln^  and  His  Admin- 
istration^'^ by  L.  E.  Chittenden^  his  Register  of  the  Treasury, 
The  fact  was  entirely  ignored  that  slavery,  in  several  States, 
was  happily  undergoing  a  gradual  but  sure  amelioration,  and 
could  not  fail  to  be  more  and  more  spontaneously  accelerated, 
without  the  danger  of  reaction,  if  it  were  left  to  God's  own 
time  to  introduce  good  for  evil  in  His  own  way.  So  were  for- 
gotten that  His  great  work — even  the  creation  of  the  world 
— was  one  of  time  and  deliberation,  instead  of  a  simple  fiat, 
which,  if  He  had  pleased,  would  have  been  all-sufficient— 
that  more  years  were  allowed  to  intervene  between  the  prom- 
ise made  to  Abraham  and  the  advent  of  our  Saviour  than 
Africans  had  been  in  America — the  chosen  people  of  God 
being,  meanwhile,  slaves  in  Egypt  and  Babylon — that  the 
monarch  oak  and  lofty  pine — ''fit  to  be  the  mast  of  some 
great  ammiral" — require  centuries  to  mature  them — forget- 
ting, too,  that,  as  has  just  been  shown,  hundreds  of  years, 
more  or  less,  are,  in  Divine  estimation,  but  as  a  moment  in 
the  life  of  a  people,  or  race  of  men. — Page  177,  Volume  /, 
^''Autobiography  of  General  Scott y 


JOHN  SELDEN, 

English  Statesman  and  Oriental  Scholar. 
(I 584-1 654.) 

"E  can  best  understand  the  meaning  of  Salvation 
from  the  Jews,  to  whom  our  Siaviour  was  promised. 
They  held  that  themselves  should  have  the  chief 
place  of  happiness  in  the  other  world;    but  the 
Gentiles  that  were  good  men  should  likewise  have  their  part 


402  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

of  the  bliss  there  too.  Now  by  Christ  the  partition  wall  is 
broken  down,  and  the  Gentiles  that  believe  in  Him  are  ad- 
mitted to  the  same  place  of  bliss  with  the  Jews. — Pag^  246, 
''''Table  Talk^"*  by  John  Selden. 

I  have  surveyed  most  of  the  learning  that  is  among  the 
sons  of  men,  and  my  study  is  filled  with  books  and  manu- 
scripts on  various  subjects ;  but  I  can  not  recollect  any  pas- 
sage out  of  all  my  books  and  papers  whereon  I  can  rest  my 
soul,  save  this  from  the  sacred  Scriptures:  "The  grace  of 
God  that  bringeth  salvation  hath  appeared  to  all  men,  teach- 
ing us  that,  denying  ungodliness  and  worldly  lusts,  we  shall 
live  soberly,  righteously,  and  godly,  in  this  present  world; 
looking  for  that  blessed  hope,  and  the  glorious  appearing  of 
the  great  God  and  our  Saviour  Jesus  Christ ;  who  gave  Him- 
self for  us,  that  He  might  redeem  us  from  all  iniquity,  and 
purify  unto  Himself  a  peculiar  people,  zealous  of  good 
works."  (Titus  ii.  14.) — ''^Memoirs  of  John  Selden^''  by  G.  W. 
Johnson. 


HORATIO  SEYMOUR, 

War  Governor  of  New  York.     (1810-1886.) 

E  who  studies  with  care  the  jurisprudence  of  the  Old 
Testament  will  see  that  this  feeling  of  reverence  for 
^  forefathers  and  devotion  to  country  is  made  the  sub- 
stance of  positive  law  in  the  command  that  men 
should  honor  their  fathers  and  mothers.  But  sacred  poetry 
is  filled  with  appeals  to  these  sentiments,  and  the  narratives 
of  the  Bible  abound  with  proofs  of  the  great  truth  that  the 
days  of  those  who  fear  them  shall  be  long  upon  the  land 
which  God  hath  given  them. 

Men  cross  the  ocean  and  encounter  the  fatigues,  dangers 
of  a  journey  to  the  other  side  of  the  earth,  that  they  may 
walk  through  the  streets  of  Jerusalem  where  our  Saviour 
trod,  or  look  out  from  the  hill  of  Zion,  or  wander  amid 
sacred  places.     These  scenes  bring  to  their  minds  the  story 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  403 

of  the  past  in  a  way  that  thrills  their  nerves.  .  .  .  You 
will  find  that  all  history,  all  jurisprudence,  all  just  reasonings, 
force  us  to  the  conclusion  that  not  only  does  a  Divine  com- 
mand, but  that  reason  and  justice  call  upon  us  all  to  honor 
our  ancestors,  and  that  there  is  a  great  practical  truth  which 
concerns  the  welfare  and  the  power  of  all  communities  in  the 
words  of  the  inspired  penman  :  "  Honor  thy  father  and  thy 
mother  that  thy  days  may  be  long  in  the  land  which  the 
Lord  thy  God  giveth  thee." — See  his  oration^  '^The  Future 
of  the  Human  Race^'^  delivered  at  Rome^  N.  K,  July  4,  1876. 


JOHN  CAMPBELL  SHAIRP, 

Principal  of  the  United  College,  St.  Andrews;  Professor  of  Poetry  at 
Oxford,  and  Author.     (1813-1885.) 

HOSE  most  transcendent  doctrines,  Christ's  atone- 
ment. His  resurrection,  the  indwelling  of  His  Spirit, 
are  as  much  a  part  of  the  testimony  about  Christ,  and 
of  the  agencies  by  which  He  has  changed  the  world, 
as  anything  that  we  know  of  His  character.  .  .  .  No 
fact  in  man's  history  is  more  certain  than  this,  that  the  sim- 
ple statement  of  Scripture,  "Christ  has  appeared  to  put  away 
sin  by  the  sacrifice  of  Himself,"  has  been  efficacious  to  reach 
down  to  the  lowest  depths  of  men's  souls  beyond  any  other 
truth  ever  uttered  on  this  earth.  In  the  Resurrection,  they 
have  found  the  assurance  that  what  conscience  prophesies 
will  in  the  end  come  true,  that,  though  experience  often 
seems  against  it,  "right  is  stronger  than  wrong,  truth  is  bet- 
ter than  falsehood,"  purity  shall  prevail  over  sensual  indul- 
gence, meekness  shall  inherit  the  earth ;  for  right,  truth,  and 
purity  are  summed  up  in  their  champion,  Christ,  and  He 
has  conquered  death,  the  one  unconquerable  champion  of  the 
enemy. — Pages  322  and  323  in  "  Studies  in  Poetry  and  Phi- 
losophy^^ by  John  Campbell  Shair p. 


404  A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

WILLIAM  HENRY  SEWARD, 

Secretary  of  State  under  President  Lincoln.     (1801-1872.) 


DO  not  believe  human 
society,  including  not 
merely  a  few  persons 
in    any    state,  but 
whole   masses  of  men,  ever 
have    attained,  or  ever    can 
attain,  a  high    state    of  in- 
telligence,   virtue,    security, 
liberty,  or  happiness  without 
the   Holy  Scriptures ;    even 
the    whole  hope  of  human 
progress  is  suspended  on  the 
ever-growing  influence  of  the  Bible. 

In  his  oration  on  "The  Destiny  of  America,"  he  said: 
*' Shall  we  look  to  the  sacred  desk?  Yes,  indeed;  for  it  is 
of  Divine  institution,  and  is  approved  by  human  experience. 
The  ministers  of  Christ,  inculcating  Divine  morals,  under 
Divine  authority,  with  Divine  sanction,  and  sustained  and 
aided  by  special  cooperating  influences  of  the  Divine  Spirit, 
are  now  carrying  further  and  broadly  onward  the  great  work 
of  the  renewal  of  the  civilization  of  the  world,  and  its  eman- 
cipation from  superstition  and  despotism." 

In  1836,  as  one  of  the  honored  Vice-Presidents  of  the 
American  Bible  Society,  he  expressed  himself  as  follows :  "I 
know  not  how  long  a  republican  government  can  flourish 
among  a  great  people  who  have  not  the  Bible ;  the  experi- 
ment has  never  been  tried ;  but  this  I  do  know :  that  the 
existing  government  of  this  country  never  could  have  had 
existence  but  for  the  Bible.  And,  further,  I  do,  in  my  con- 
science, believe  that  if  at  every  decade  of  years  a  copy  of  the 
Bible  could  be  found  in  every  family  in  the  land  its  repub- 
lican institutions  would  be  perpetuated." — ^^Life  of  William 
Henry  Seward^''  by  George  E.  Baker. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  405 

WILLIAM  SHAKESPEARE, 

English  Poet  and  Dramatist.     (1564-1616.) 

|N  the  more  complete 
editions  of  Shakes- 
-^J  peare's  works,  wliicli 
generally  include  a  bi- 
ography or  memoir,  may  be 
found  a  copy  from  his  last 
will,  dated  in  the  year  of  his 
death.  The  first  clause 
reads:  "In  the  name  of 
God,  Amen!  I,  William 
Shakespeare,  of  Stratford- 
upon-Avon,  in  the  county 
of  Warr.,  gei.t.,  in  perfect 
health  and  memory,  God  be 
praised,  do  make  and  ordain  this  my  last  will  and  testament 
in  manner  and  form  following,  that  is  to  say,  first,  I  com- 
mend my  soul  into  the  hands  of  God,  my  Creator,  hoping 
and  assuredly  believing,  through  the  only  merits  of  Jesus 
Christ,  my  Saviour,  to  be  made  partaker  of  life  everlasting, 
and  my  body  to  the  earth  whereof  it  is  made." 

QUOTATIONS. 

Some  say— that  ever  'gainst  that  season  comes 
Wherein  our  Saviour's  birth  is  celebrated 
The  bird  of  dawning  singeth  all  night  long. 

— Hamlet  I.  i. 
Mark  you  this,  Bassanio  : 
The  devil  can  cite  Scripture  for  his  purpose. 
An  evil  soul,  producing  holy  witness. 
Is  like  a  villian  with  a  smiling  cheek, 
A  goodly  apple  rotten  at  the  heart. 

— Merchant  of  Venice,  I.  3. 

Before  I  be  convict  by  course  of  law, 

To  threaten  me  with  death  is  most  unlawful. 

I  charge  you,  as  you  hope  for  any  goodness, 

By  Christ's  dear  blood  shed  for  our  grievous  sins 

That  you  depart  and  lay  no  hands  on  me. 

-Richard  HL,  I.  4. 


4o6  A  CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

Alas,  alas! 
Why,  all  the  souls  that  were  forfeit  once, 
And   He  that  might  the  vantage  have  took 
Found  out  the  remedy. — Measure  for  Measure,  II.  i. 

Therefore,  friends, 
As  far  as  to  the  sepulcher  of  Christ 
(Whose  soldiers  now,  under  whose  blessed  Cross 
We  are  impressed  to  fight). 
To  chase  these  pagans  in  those  holy  fields. 
Over  whose  acres  walked  those  blessed  feet, 
Which  fourteen  hundred  years  ago  were  nail'd 
For  our  advantage  on  the  bitter  Cross. 

— Henry  IV.,  I  i. 

ROBINSON  SOUTTAR, 

Member  of  British  Parliament. 

HERE  is  but  one  Physician  for  the  world's  ills — 
the  God-man  Christ  Jesus ;  there  is  but  one  remedy 
for  the  world's  misery — regeneration,  through  the 
Holy  Ghost. 

<'As  when  the  Hebrew  Prophet  raised  the  brazen  serpent  high. 
The  wounded  looked  and  straight  were  cured,  the  people  ceased  to  die; 
So  the  Saviour  on  the  Cross  a  healing  virtue  flows; 
Who  looks  to  Him  with  lively  faith  is  saved  from  endless  woes." 
— London  City  Mission  Magazine,  June  1897. 


NATHANIEL  SOUTHGATE  SHALER, 

Professor  of  Geology  in   Harvard  University. 

rij^irY  first  contact  with  natural  science  in  my  youth  and 
-  ^\.  ^3.rly  manhood  had  the  not  uncommon  effect  of  lead- 
C>x^  ing  me  far  away  from  Christianity.     Of  late  years  a 
further  insight  into  the  truths  of  nature  has  grad- 
ually forced  me  once  again  towards  the  ground  from  which 
I  had  departed. 

It   seems  to   me  that   the  Christian    doctrine,    looked  at 
purely  from  the  point  of  view  of  natural  science,  has  the 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  407 

merit  of  setting  the  altruistic  motives  on  a  wider  foundation 
than  any  other  form  of  religion.  "  Thou  shalt  love  the  Lord 
thy  God  with  all  thy  soul  and  all  thy  might,  and  thy  neigh- 
bor as  thyself."  It  has  carried  man  farther  out  of  the  prison 
of  self  than  all  the  other  teachings  that  have  come  to  him. 
Considering  the  religions  of  mankind  as  phenomena,  and 
valuing  them  according  to  their  relation  with  the  series  of 
organic  developments,  and  leaving  aside  in  the  estimate  all 
the  prejudices  of  education,  it  seems  to  the  student  clear 
that  Christianity  occupies  a  peculiar  place  in  these  modes  of 
thought.  More  than  any  other  it  is,  in  the  essentials  of  its 
form,  in  the  direct  trend  of  psychic  development.  In  my 
own  mind,  the  doctrine  of  Christ  is  the  summit  and  crown 
of  the  organic  series. — See  Preface^  and  pages  273  arid  275 
of  ^^  The  Interpretation  of  Nature ^^^  by  Nathaniel  Southgate 
Shaler, 


GRANVILLE  SHARP, 

English  Reformer  and  Philanthropist.     (1734-1813.) 

>HE  omission  of  an  act  of  mercy  and  benevolence  to- 
wards our  neighbor,  when  it  is  in  our  power  and 
occasion  requires  it,  is  declared  by  our  Lord,  the 
Saviour  of  the  world,  to  be  as  gross  an  affront,  even 
to  Himself,  as  if  He  had  been  personally  neglected  by  us. 
"Inasmuch,"  says  He,  "as  ye  did  it  not  to  one  of  the  least 
of  these,  ye  did  it  not  to  Me." 

Though  our  Lord  endured  the  most  provoking  indigna- 
tion from  the  licentious  soldiery  and  reviling  multitude  in 
silence,  answering  not  a  word,  agreeable  to  that  striking 
character  of  a  suffering  Messiah  so  minutely  described  many 
ages  before  by  the  prophet  Isaiah,  yet  He  made  an  apparent 
distinction  between  the  violence  and  injustice  of  these,  as 
individuals,  and  the  injustice  of  a  man  in  a  public  character 
as  a  chief  magistrate. — Pages  19,  63,  and  64,  ^''The  Law  of 
Liberty^  or  Royal  Law^^  by  Granville  Sharp. 


408  A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

ELLIOTT  FITCH  SHEPARD. 

Journalist.     (1823-1893.) 

THINK  that  "  there  is  none  other  name  under  heaven 
given  among  men  whereby  we  must  be  saved,  but 
the  Name  of  Jesus  Christ,  neither  is  there  salvation 
in  any  other."  Therefore  Adam,  Abraham,  David, 
Mary,  Paul,  Calvin,  Edwards,  Wesley,  Judson,  Adams,  Mc- 
Cormick,  all  the  redeemed,  were  and  will  be  saved  only  by 
faith  in  His  Name. 

I  think  the  Bible  is  the  Word  of  God,  and  there  are  no 
seeming  contradictions  or  errors  in  it  which  may  not  be 
fully  explained  to  the  satisfaction  of  all  intelligent  minds  and 
honest  seekers  after  Divine  truth.  But,  since  its  Author  is 
infinite,  no  one  can  expect  to  understand  it  all  in  this  world 
where  so  much  is  seen  through  a  glass  darkly. 


^^i^^i^^M^ — . 


ETHER  SHEPLEY, 

Lawyer,  and  United  States  Senator.     (1789-1877.) 

.HE  result  of  this  investigation  was  a  conviction  of 
my  entire  sinfulness,  and  that  there  was  no  hope  but 
in  the  mere  mercy  of  God.  For  this  I  supplicated,  not 
in  outward  forms,  but  from  the  depths  of  the  spirit, 
and  at  last  perceived  that  God  might  be  just,  and  the  justifier 
of  them  that  believe.  My  heart  expanded  in  thankfulness  to 
God  for  His  unspeakable  gift;  to  Christ  for  His  unquench- 
able love,  and  I  soon  desired  to  acknowledge  my  sinfulness, 
my  obligations,  and  my  gratitude;  and  did  so  publicly  by 
uniting  with  the  Church. — Page  440,  ''''American  Christian 
Ruler s^^^  by  Edward  J.  Giddings. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  409 

JOHN  SHERMAN, 

Congressman;  United  States  Senator  from  March  4,  1861,  to  1897,  except- 
ing while  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  under  President  Hayes ; 
Secretary  of  State  under  President  McKinley. 

APPRECIATE  the  Holy  Bible  as  the  highest  gift  of 
God  to  man,  unless  it  be  the  ^'unspeakable  Gift"  of 
Jesus  Christ  as  the  Saviour  of  the  world.  It  is  the 
Divine  assurance  that  our  life  does  not  end  with 
-death,  and  it  is  the  strongest  incentive  to  honorable,  chari- 
table Christian  deeds. 


cz.<^^ 


JOHN  SHORE, 

•    •  (LORD  TEIGNMOUTH.) 

^^\/~\  Governor-General  of  India.     (1751-1834.) 

ri©\-^  assuming  charge  of  the  Government  of  Bengal  in 
^  1793,  he  made  this  entry  in  his  journal :  ''Grant,  I  be- 
aN^  seech  Thee,  that  I  may  on  all  occasions  regulate  my 
conduct  by  the  rules  and  precepts  of  Thy  Word,  and 
that  in  all  doubts,  dangers,  and  embarrassments  I  may  always 
have  grace  to  apply  for  support  and  assistance.     Grant  that, 
under   my  government,  religion  and   morality  may  be  ad- 
vanced;  all  of  which   I  humbly  implore  through  the  medi- 
tation and  in  the  name  of  our  blessed  Saviour,  Jesus  Christ." 
I  depend  on  nothing  in  myself.     I  know  I  am  a  poor  sin- 
ner, and  I  trust  entirely  on  my  gracious  Saviour.     I  depend 
on  what  He  has  done  for  me.     My  whole  life  has  been  full  of 
mercies.     Few  have  spent  so  happy  a  life  as  mine,  but  I  am 
not  half  grateful  enough  for  it.     I  trust  I  do  indeed  repent  of 
all  my  transgreSvSions ;  but  I  do  not  trust  in  my  repentance. 
No  !  I  look  only  to  the  blood  of  Jesus  for  pardon  and  peace. 


4IO  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

I  feel  that  I  am  resting  on  the  right  foundation,  and  leave  yott 
all  rejoicing. — Extracts  from  the  July  and  August  numbers  of 
''''The  Bible  Society  Reporter  "  ^1891. 


SIR  PHILIP  SIDNEY, 

English  Statesman  and  Poet.     (1554-1586.) 


AY   not   I    say  that 
\)^J[  the    holy    David's 
C^A^  Psalms  are  a  Divine 
poem?     What  else 
is  the  awaking  his  musical 
instruments?  the  often  and 
free  changing  of  persons?" 
He  maketh  you,  as  it  were, 
see  God  coming  in  His  maj- 
esty.     His   telling    of   the 
beasts'  joyfulness,  and  hills'" 
leaping,  is  but  a  heavenly 
poesy;   wherein   almost  he 
showeth  himself  a  passion- 
ate lover  of  that  unspeak- 
able and  everlasting  beauty,  to  be  seen  by  the  eyes  of  the 
mind,  only  cleared  by  faith. 

Certainly,  even  our  Saviour  Christ  could  as  well  have 
given  the  moral  commonplaces  of  uncharitableness  and 
humbleness,  as  the  Divine  narration  of  Dives  and  Lazarus ;, 
or  of  disobedience  and  mercy,  as  that  heavenly  discourse  of 
the  lost  child  and  the  gracious  father;  but  that  His  thor- 
ough-searching wisdom  knew  the  state  of  Dives'  burning  in 
hell,  and  of  Lazarus  being  in  Abraham's  bosom,  would  more 
constantly  (as  it  were)  inhabit  both  the  memory  and  the 
judgment. — J.  Radfor  Thomson^  in  Volume  III^  ''''Short  Bi- 
ographies for  the  Peopled 


A   CIvOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  411 

HENRY  HASTINGS  SIBLEY, 

<\     ^  Congressman  and  Major-General.     (1811-1891.) 

<A  ^^^  religious  training  had  so  firmly  impressed  me  with 
.  5i^  the  truths  of  the  Christian  religion,  and  of  Christian 
C>^  doctrine  as  enunciated  in  the  Old  and  New  Testa- 
ments, that  I  was  content  to  take  them  as  divinely 
inspired,  and  as  such  they  constituted  a  perfect  rule  of  life 
for  the  guidance  and  conduct  of  Christians,  irrespective  of 
forms  of  church  government  and  theological  disputes. — Page 
63,  "  The  Ancestry^  Life  and  Times  of  Hon.  Henry  H.  Sibley^'''' 
by  Nathaniel  West. 


BENJAMIN  SILLIMAN. 

Physicist.     (1779-1864.) 


»HE  relation  of  geology,  as  well  as  astronomy,  to  the 
Bible,  when  both  are  well  understood^  is  that  of  per- 
fect harmony.  The  Bible  nowhere  limits  the  age 
of  the  globe,  while  its  chronology  assigns  a  recent 
origin  to  the  human  race ;  and  geology  not  only  confirms 
that  the  Genesis  presents  a  true  statement  of  the  progress 
of  the  terrestrial  arrangements,  and  of  the  introduction  of 
living  beings  in  the  order  in  which  their  fossil  remains  are 
found  entombed  in  the  strata.  The  Word  and  the  works  of 
Ood  can  not  conflict,  and  the  more  they  are  studied  the 
more  perfect  will  their  harmony  appear. 

His  prayer  at  the  conclusion  of  a  course  of  lectures  in 
college,  on  the  13th  of  June,  1855:  ^'Thus,  O  Almighty 
Ood,  hast  Thou  led  me  on  in  mercy  almost  to  the  close  of  a 
long  life.  .  .  .  For  myself,  in  the  evening  of  my  life, 
may  I  be  every  day  ready  to  die,  trusting  in  Thy  mercy 
through  the  Redeemer  of  men ;  and  if  power  and  opportu^ 
nity  to  be  useful  are  still  continued  to  me,  may  I  have  a  dis- 
position, as  well  as  ability,  j;o  honor  Thee,  and  to  benefit  my 


41-2  ■  A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

fellow  men.  For  my  salvation  I  depend  entirely  upon  the 
Redeemer.  In  the  sight  of  God  I  have  no  merits  of  my 
own,  and  feel  deeply  that  if  I  am  saved  it  will  be  of  grace 
and  not  of  works.  I  have  none  to  offer  that  are  worthy  of 
Thine  acceptance.  And  now,  my  Heavenly  Father,  I  im- 
plore Thy  blessing  upon  my  dear  children  and  their  children, 
and  upon  the  faithful  and  devoted  companion  whom  Thou 
hast  in  mercy  given  me.  I  implore  it,  also,  for  the  precious 
youth  who  are  about  to  go  into  the  world.  Bless  them  all  in 
time  and  eternity  through  Christ  our  Lord  and  Redeemer.'^ 
—  Volume  II  of  his  life^  by  G.  P.  Fisher. 


WINFIELD  SCOTT  SCHLEY, 

Rear-Admiral  United  States  Navy. 

.HERE  is  no  gift  of  God  comparable  to  the  Bible  ^ 
there  is  no  religion  comparable  to  the  religion  of 
Jesus  Christ,  and  there  is  no  civilization  comparable 
to  that  wrought  by  Christianity.  No  student  of  na- 
ture, and  no  deep  thinker,  can  fail  to  reach  the  conclusion 
that  God  is  everywhere  in  evidence,  and  that  without  His- 
providential  care  everything  in  the  life  we  now  live  would 
come  to  naught. 


DANIEL  EDGAR  SICKLES, 

Major-General  in  Civil  War,   Diplomat,  and  Congressman. 

BELIEVE  in  the  divinity  of  Jesus  Christ  and  in  the 
inspired  teachings  of  the  Holy  Scriptures.  The 
Divine  Book  affords  the  best  guide  for  the  conduct  of 
men  and  nations.  It  is  the  basis  of  modern  civiliza- 
tion. A  Christian  man  makes  the  best  soldier — loyal  to  his 
flag,  brave  in  battle,  and  generous  to  a  fallen  adversary. 


A  CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES.  413 

SAMUEL  SMILES, 

Scottish  Author. 

^7f<6T  the  head  of  all  biographies  stands  the  Great  Biog- 
\l^  raphy — the  BOOK  of  Books.  And  what  is  the 
^  (0)^  Bible,  the  most  sacred  and  impressive  of  all  books — 
the  educator  of  the  youth,  the  guide  of  manhood,, 
and  the  consoler  of  the  ages — but  a  series  of  biographies  of 
great  heroes  and  patriarchs,  prophets,  kings,  and  judges,  cul- 
minating in  the  greatest  biography  of  all — the  Life  embodied 
in  the  New  Testament?  How  much  have  the  great  exam- 
ples there  set  forth  done  for  mankind?  How  many  have 
drawn  them  their  best  strength,  their  highest  wisdom,  their 
best  nurture  and  admonition. — '''' Self- Help  Series  on  Char- 
acter^^ by  Samuel  Smiles. 


SIR  JAMES  YOUNG  SIMPSON, 

Scottish  Physician;  Discoverer  of  Chloroform.     (1811-1870). 

,HE  unregenerate,  unbelieving  soul  is  compared  to  a. 
corpse ;  it  is  ''  dead  in  sins."  Of  all  of  you  who  are 
now  living  by  faith  in  Christ  it  may  be  truthfully 
said  to-day,  as  it  was  said  eighteen  centuries  ago  of 
the  Ephesian  converts  to  whom  the  Apostle  Paul  wrote^ 
"  You  hath  He  quickened,  who  were  dead."  As  many  of 
you  as  are  unbelievers  are,  in  the  strong  language  of  Scrip- 
ture, "  dead."  You  are  dead  in  the  eye  of  Divine  justice ; 
for  as  the  condemned  criminal  is  as  a  "  dead  man,"  when  his 
crimes,  have  brought  on  him  the  legal  doom  of  death,  you  are 
likewise  "  dead,"  because  ''  he  that  believeth  not  is  con- 
demned already."  Further,  you  are  also  spiritually  dead  oxl 
account  of  being  cut  off  by  your  sins  from  communion  with 
the  living  God.  For  as  a  corpse  moves  not,  stirs  not,  feels 
not,  and  can  not  be  aroused,  so  are  you  dead  to  all  love  of 
God,  and  to  everything  pertaining  to  the  wondrous  Gospel 
of  Jesus  Christ.     Of  the  dread  and  crushing  burden  of  their 


414 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


own  sins  your  souls  are  not  all  conscious ;  for  the  dead  feel 
not.  But  in  the  infinitude  of  His  love  to  our  fallen  race, 
Ood  offers  to  each  of  us  individually  a  free  and  full  pardon, 
and  life  now  and  forever,  if  we  only  believe  on  Jesus  Christ, 
His  Son,  whom  He  sent  to  suffer  in  our  stead — to  die  that 
we  might  live — if  we  rely  and  rest  entirely  on  Him  as  the 
i  all-sufficient  sacrifice  for  our  sins — as  our  substitute  and  se- 
^  curity. — -James  Macaulay^  Volume  7,  in  ^^ Short  Biographies 
for  the  People. ^^ 

EPHRAIM  KIRBY  SMITH,* 

Confederate  Major-General  and  Educator.     (1824-1893.) 

KNOW  that  my  Redeemer  liveth,  and  that  He  shall 

stand  at  the   latter  day  upon  the  earth."     Without 

that   inestimable    comfort   and   undying    faith    that 

comes  from  the  sacred  Scriptures,  and  the  religion  of 

Jesus  Christ,  life  would  be  a  miserable  failure. 


^J^^Uy/^lA^ 


JOHN  COTTON  SMITH, 

Lawyer,  Congressman,  and  Governor.     (1765-1845.) 

HILE  President  of  the  American  Bible  Society,  he 
made  this  address :  ^'  Would  that  a  history  of  the 
American  Revolution  could  have  been  written  by 
one,  who,  like  Xenophon,  was  a  distinguished 
actor  in  the  scenes  described,  and  who,  imbued  with  the 
right  spirit,  could  illustrate  by  appropriate  facts  the  influence 
which  animated  and  upheld  the  agents  in  that  mighty  strug- 

*  He  died  some  months  after  this  testimony  was  written.  His  last  words 
-were  these  :  "  Though  I  walk  through  the  valley  of  the  shadow  of  death,  I 
will  fear  no  evil :  for  Thou  art  with  me  ;  Thy  rod  and  Thy  staff  they  com- 
fort me." 


A  CI.OUD  OF  WITNESSES.  415 

gle  !  In  such  a  work,  if  I  mistake  not,  the  present  and 
future  generations  would  perceive  the  fruits  of  early  Biblical 
instruction,  and  learn  the  value  of  the  Bible  in  the  day  of 
adversity.  .  .  .  But  establish  it  in  the  common  schools,, 
and  you  make  every  child  and  youth  in  the  republic  ac- 
quainted, of  course,  with  a  Book  which  of  all  others  it  be- 
hooves them  to  know — a  Book  whose  Divine  origin,  if  there 
were  no  other  proof,  is  demonstrated  by  its  perfect  adaptation 
to  every  capacity,  the  humblest  and  the  highest. 


CHARLES  PIAZZA  SMYTH, 

Astronomer  Royal  for  Scotland,  1845-1888.    (1819-1895.) 

HAT,  then,  is  the  end  and  use  for  which  the  great 
Pyramid  was  built?  i.  To  convey  a  new  proof  of 
the  personal  God  of  Scripture ;  to  prove  by  means 
of  modern  science,  the  actual  occurrence  of  an 
ancient  miracle,  and  if  of  one,  the  possibility  of  all  miracles 
recorded  in  the  Bible.  2.  In  fulfillment  of  the  first  prophecy 
of  Genesis,  which  teaches,  together  with  all  the  prophets, 
that  from  the  seed  of  the  woman,  without  the  man,  a  truly 
Divine  Saviour  of  mankind  was  to  arise  and  appear  among 
men.  —  ''^Our  Inheritance  in  the  Great  Pyramid^  1874,"^^. 
463-470,  by  Charles  Piazza  Smyth. 


FRANCIS  H.  SNOW, 

President  of  the  University  of  Kansas. 

RECOGNIZE  in  the  Bible  an  inspired  record  of  the 
religious  development  of  the  human  race,  culminat- 
ing in  the  glorious  personality  of  Jesus  Christ,  and  I 
believe  that  its  pages  contain  abundantly  the  truths 
essential  to  salvation. 

I  recognize  in  Jesus  of  Nazareth  the  most  perfect  character 
of  history.  His  matchless  teachings,  His  self-sacrificing  serv- 
ice for  mankind  as  a  whole,  and,  above  all.  His  personal 
love  for  every  individual  human  being,  have  introduced  a 
power  in  the  world  which  must  ultimately  lead  to  its  com- 
plete redemption. 


4i6 


A   CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES. 


SAMUEL  SMITH, 

Member  of  Parliament. 

B  have  met  to  testify  once  more  our  continued 
belief  that  the  Gospel  of  Christ  is  the  power  of 
God  unto  every  one  that  believeth,  and  is  as 
necessary  as  ever.  Some  people  think  that  the 
Gospel  has  lost  its  power,  and  that  man  can  be  raised  by 
science,  culture,  and  literature.  But  the  belief  of  those 
around  me  is,  that  man,  in  all  his  essential  characteristics,  is 
the  same  to-day  as  in  the  first  century  of  the  Christian  era — 
a  poor  and  sinful  creature,  and  that  nothing  but  the  grace  of 
God  can  raise  him.  Skepticism  never  supported  Christian 
philanthropy,  nor  cherished  noble  self-sacrifice. — From  his 
aaaress  at  Exeter  Hall^  at  the  aiinnal  meeting  of  the  London 
Missionary  Society ^  May ^  iJ 


ROBERT  SOUTHEY, 

English  Poet-Laureate.     (1774-1843.) 

F  Christians  in  any 

country,  yea,  if     any 

coUec  te  d  body  of 

them,  were  what 
they  might,  and  ought,  and 
are  commanded  to  be,  the 
universal  reception  of  the 
Gospel  would  follow  as  a 
natural  and  promised  result. 
— Page  222  of  ^^  Allibone^s 
Prose  Quotations .^^ 

The  evidence  of  Chris- 
tianity is  as  demonstrative 
as  the  subject  admits ;  the 
more  it  is  investigated,  the 
stronger  it  appears.  But  the  root  of  belief  is  in  the  heart, 
rather  than  in  the  understanding.  For  many  years  my  be- 
lief has  not  been  clouded  with  a  shadow  of  doubt. — From 
ihe  ^^ Published  Letters  of  Robert  Southey^ 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  417 

JOHN  ADDINGTON  SYMONDS, 

British  Critic.     (1840-1893.) 

^TlIvL  more,  it  is  impossible  for  the  figurative  arts  to 
approach  the  Christian  conception  of  God  in  His 
omnipotence  and  unity.  Christ  Himself,  the  central 
figure  of  the  Christian  Universe,  the  desired  of  all 
nations,  in  whom  the  Deity  assumed  human  form  and  dwelt 
with  men,  is  no  fit  subject  for  such  art  as  the  Greeks  per- 
fected. The  fact  of  His  incarnation  brought  Him  indeed 
within  the  proper  sphere  of  fine  arts. — From'''  The  Renais- 
sance in  Italy. ' ' 

THE  EARL  OF  STAMFORD, 

British    Philanthropist. 

HAVE  been  brought  up  among  those  who,  while 
finding  their  assured  hope,  comfort  and  inspiration  in 
the  Christian  faith  and  in  the  Holy  Scriptures,  have 
spoken  little  of  what  they  valued  most.  May  I  re- 
main always  in  their  blessed  company,** faithful  unto  death" 
to  the  religion  of  my  fathers.  n  a 

JAMES  R.  SOVEREIGN, 

General    Master  Workman  of  the  Knights  of  Labor. 

^T  is  my  firm  opinion  that  if  the  Divine  teachings  of 
Christ  and  the  Bible  were  practiced  by  the  people 
there  would  be  no  need  of  a  labor  organization  on 
earth.  If  the  Saviour  had  confined  His  teachings  to 
theological  questions  He  might  have  lived  a  peaceful  life  and 
died  a  natural  death,  but  He  took  into  consideration  the 
material  welfare  of  the  people  from  an  economic  standpoint. 


4l8  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


HENRY  WHEELER  SHAW, 

(JOSH  BILLINGS.) 

Humorist.     (1818-1885.) 

BELIEVE  in  Christ,  the  all  and  in  all ;  I  believe  also 
in  the  Bible — all  of  it.  The  very  things  I  do  not 
understand  I  believe  the  most  of  all.  I  would  not 
exchange  my  faith  for  any  human  knowledge. 


(JLe.^^^*^  ^-  ^7% 


czm^t-* 


BENEDICT  SPINOZA, 

Dutch  Philosopher.     (1632-1677.) 


CONSIDER  the  utility  and  the  need  for  Holy  Scrip- 
ture or  Revelation  to  be  very  great.  For  as  we  can 
not  perceive  by  the  natural  light  of  reason  that  sim- 
ple obedience  is  the  path  of  salvation,  and  are  taught 
by  Revelation  only  that  it  is  so  by  the  special  grace  of  God, 
which  our  reason  can  not  attain,  it  follows  that  the  Bible  has 
brought  a  very  great  consolation  to  mankind.  All  are  able 
to  obey,  whereas  there  are  but  very  few,  compared  with  the 
aggregate  of  humanity,  who  can  acquire  the  habit  of  virtue 
under  the  unaided  guidance  of  reason.  Thus,  if  we  had  not 
the  testimony  of  Scripture,  we  should  doubt  of  the  salvation 
of  nearly  all  men. 

We  may  conclude,  therefore,  that  the  whole  Divine  law, 
as  taught  by  Scripture,  has  come  down  to  us  uncorrupted. 
Besides  this,  there  are  certain  facts  which  we  may  be  sure 
have  been  transmitted  in  good  faith.  For  instance,  the  main 
facts  of  Hebrew  history,  which  were  perfectly  well  known  to 
every  one.  The  main  facts  of  Christ's  life  and  passion  were 
immediately  spread  abroad  through  the  whole  Roman  em- 


FEDERAL  MAJOR-GENERALS  AND  REAR-ADMIRALS. 


David  G.  Farragut, 

Tage  148. 

John  A.  Dix, 

William  T.  Sherman, 

George  B.  McClellan 

Tage  i}2. 

Tage  229. 

Tage  312. 

WiNFiELD  Scott, 

Alfred  T.  Mahan, 

George  H.  Thomas, 

Tage  401. 

Tage  J03. 

Tage  4SO. 

Andrew  H.  Foote, 

George  E.  Belknap, 

David  D.  Porter, 

Tage  133. 

Tage  39. 

Tage  36}. 

A   CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES.  419 

pire.  It  is,  therefore,  scarcely  credible,  unless  nearly  every- 
body consented  thereto,  which  we  can  not  suppose,  that  suc- 
cessive generations  have  handed  down  the  broad  outline  of 
the  Gospel  narrative  otherwise  than  they  have  received  it. — 
Pages  198,  173  and  9,  Volume  /,  "  Works  of  Spinoza^^^  Bohn's 
Philosophical  Library. 


EMILE  SOUVESTRE, 

French  Novelist. 


lET  US  rather  enlarge  the  Holy  Law ;    let  us  carry  the 

principles  of  home  beyond  its  bounds ;    let  us  realize 

'^^    the  prayer  of  the'  Apostle  of  the  Gentiles  when  he 

exclaimed  to  the  new-born  children  of  Christ:    "Be 

ye  like-minded,  having  the  same  love,  being  of  one  accord, 

of  one  mind." — Page  135,  ''^ An  Attic  Philosopher  in  Paris ^^^ 

by  Entile  Souvestre. 


ALBERT  SPICER, 

Member  of  Parliament. 


CONFESS  to  being  a  pretty  keen  party  politician; 
and  I  am  a  politician  because  I  want  to  see  the 
principles  of  the  Word  of  God,  as  laid  down  in  God's 
Book,  carried  out  in  our  daily  life  throughout  our 
Empire.  If  I  felt  that  Christianity  was  untrue,  I  should  not 
remain  a  politician  for  a  day.  ...  I  ask  that,  as  differ- 
ent regiments  of  one  great  army,  we  may  all  work  together 
heartily  for  that  Saviour  and  for  that  Christ  whom  we  all 
love  and  whom  we  desire  to  serv^e.  I  trust  that  as  we  work 
in  this  spirit,  though  holding  different  opinions,  the  Holy 
Spirit  may  increasingly  own  and  bless  each  copy  of  His 
Word  sent  forth  to  spread  our  Saviour's  kingdom  in  the 
earth. — Extracts  from  his  Address  at  the  Anniversary  of  the 
British  and  Foreign  Bible  Society^  May.,  1893. 


420  A   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES. 

EDMUND  SPENSER, 

English  Poet-Laureate.     ( 1552  P-isgg.) 


THE   LORD'S   DAY. 

OST  glorious  Lord  of  life,  that  on  this  day 
ixYd-       Didst  make  Thy  triumph  over  death  and  sin, 
^^<f^  And,  having  harrowed  hell,  didst  bring  away 
Captivity  thence  captive,  us  to  win. 
This  joyous  day,  dear  Lord,  with  joy  begin ; 
And  grant  that  we,  for  whom  Thou  didst  die. 

Being  with  Thy  death-blood  clean  washed  from  sin, 
May  live  forever  in  felicity . 


VISCOUNT  SIDMOUTH, 

Prime  Minister  of  England.     (1757-1844.) 

PUT  my  whole  trust  in  the  merits  of  my  Saviour!  I 
look  forward  to  be  reunited  with  all  those  whom  I  love, 
in  a  blessed  immortality. — Pa^e  477,  Volume  Illy 
' '  First  Viscount  Sidmoiith, ' '  by  Dean  Pit  lew. 


A   CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES.  421 

WILLIAM  SPRAGUE, 

Governor,  United  Gtates  Senator,  and  Manufacturer. 

BEG  to  say,  that  though  I  have  been  nauseated  by 
those  who  claim,  without  knowledge  or  reason,  to  a 
special  and  conspicuous  devotion  to  Jesus  Christ  as 
God  and  the  Saviour,  and  the  Bible  as  the  Word  of 
God,  I  have  from  a  standpoint  of  the  practical,  the  mathe- 
matical, and  the  mechanical,  the  clearest  perception  of 
Jesus  Christ  as  the  Saviour — the  Intermediator — and  the 
Bible  as  the  Word  of  God;  meaning  by  this,  that  which 
tells  me  in  advance  what  is  to  occur;  and  which  places  be- 
tween me  and  death  an  impervious  shield,  and  evolves  a  sav- 
ing principle,  as  Christ,  which,  enforced  by  means  at  men's 
disposal,  will  save  nations,  as  individuals,  here  and  here- 
after: is  the  Word,  the  Saviour,  the  God  to  me. 


BARON  AUGUSTE  DE  STAEL, 

French  Author;  Son  of  the  Celebrated  Madame  De  Stael. 

{1790-1827.) 

^T  is  a  grand  subject  for  meditation,  to  behold  in  our 
modern  society  the  love  of  the  holy  doctrines  of  the 
Gospel  advancing  with  the  progress  of  philosophy  and 
of  political  institutions,  so  that  the  nations  which  are 
most  advanced  in  civilization  and  in  liberty  are  also  the 
most  religious,  the  most  truly  Christian.  It  appears  that 
Providence  has  reserved  this  blessing  for  our  age,  and  that 
the  Bible  Societies  are  the  instruments  by  which  it  is  to  be 
accomplished.  How  consoling,  then,  it  is  to  behold  your 
country,  this  classic  land  of  reason  and  liberty,  embracing 
the  cause  of  the  Gospel  with  so  much  zeal  and  success. 
And  what  salutary  influence  will  not  the  authority  of  your 


422  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

example  have  on  those  whom  a  narrow  philosophy  or  a 
false  shame  has  hitherto  kept  at  a  distance  from  the  religion 
of  Jesus  Christ.  We  constrain  ourselves  to  walk  in  your 
foot-steps;  and  although  our  Bible  Societies  are  not  so  nu- 
merous and  active  as  they  might  be,  and  ought  to  be,  we 
have  every  reason  to  thank  God  for  the  good  which  they  be- 
gin already  to  produce. — From  a  Letter  to  the  American 
Bible  Society^  in  1822,  and  written  while  Secretary  of  a  Bible 
Society  in  Paris. 

EDWARD  GEOFFREY  SMITH-STANLEY, 

"Lord  Derby";  Prime  Minister  of  England. 
(1799-1869.) 

E  was  far  from  being  indifferent  to  religious  questions, 
even  when  they  were  wholly  unconnected  with  poli- 
tics, and  early  in  life  he  had  written  a  handbook  for 
children — "Conversations on  the  Parables."  .  .  .  He 
confessed  that  his  sympathies,  his  feelings,  his  affections 
were  with  that  party  which,  with  their  Bibles  for  their  guide, 
with  the  ancient  fathers  of  the  Church  and  the  modern 
lights  of  the  Reformed  Church  as  the  commentators  and 
assistants,  are  more  ready  to  inculcate  upon  their  hearers  the 
practiced  precepts  than  the  abstract  doctrines  of  religion,  the 
party  which  would  not  compliment  any  of  the  Church's  fun- 
damental and  essential  doctrines. — ^^  The  Earl  of  Derby  ^^  by 
George  Saints  bury  ^  pages  213  and  214. 


HENRY  MORTON  STANLEY, 

Explorer  •'  In  Darkest  Africa." 

HAT  I  want,  and  what  I  have  been  endeavoring  to 
ask,  for  the  poor  African  has  been  the  good  ofhces 
of  Christians,  ever  since  Ivivingstone  taught  me, 
during  those  four  months  I  was  with  him.     In 
187 1  I  went  with  him  as  prejudiced  as  the  biggest  atheist  in 


A   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES.  423 

London.  I  was  out  there  away  from  a  worldly  world.  I  saw 
this  solitary  old  man  there,  and  asked  myself  ''Why  on 
€arth  does  he  stop  here?  What  is  it  that  inspires  him  ?  " 
For  months  after  we  met  I  found  myself  listening  to  him, 
and  wondering  at  the  old  man  carrying  out  all  that  was  said 
in  the  Bible.  Little  by  little  his  sympathy  for  others  became 
contagious;  mine  was  aroused;  seeing  his  piety,  his  earnest- 
ness, and  how  he  went  quietly  at  his  work,  I  was  converted 
to  Christ  by  him,  though  he  had  not  tried  to  do  it. 


You  who,  throughout  your  long  and  varied  life,  have  stead- 
fastly believed  in  the  Christian's  God,  and  before  men  have 
professed  your  devout  thankfulness  for  many  mercies  vouch- 
safed to  you,  will  better  understand  than  many  others  the 
feelings  which  animate  me  when  I  find  myself  back  to  civili- 
zation, uninjured  in  life  or  health,  after  passing  through  so 
many  stormy  and  distressful  periods.  Constrained  at  the 
darkest  hour  to  humbly  confess  that  without  God's  help  I 
was  helpless,  I  vowed  a  vow  in  the  forest  solitudes  that  I 
would  confess  His  aid  before  men.  A  silence  as  of  death  was 
round  about  me ;  it  was  midnight ;  I  was  weakened  by  ill- 
ness, prostrated  with  fatigue,  and  worn  with  anxiety  for  my 
white  and  black  companions,  whose  fate  was  a  mystery.  In 
this  physical  and  mental  distress  I  besought  God  to  give  me 
back  my  people.  Nine  hours  later  we  were  exulting  with  a 
rapturous  joy.  In  full  view  of  all  was  the  crimson  flag  with 
the  crescent,  and  beneath  its  waving  folds  was  the  long-lost 
rear  column. — Prefatory  Letter^  Volume  /,  "///  Darkest  Af- 
rica^^  by  Henry  M.  Stanley. 

Before  turning  in  for  the  night,  I  resumed  my  reading  of 
the  Bible  as  usual.  I  had  already  read  the  Book  through 
from  beginning  to  end  once,  and  was  now  at  Deuteronomy 
for  the  second  reading,  and  came  to  the  verse  wherein  Moses 
exhorts  Joshua  in   those  few  lines,  "  Be  strong  and  of  good 


424  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

courage ;  fear  not,  nor  be  afraid  of  them  :  for  the  Lord  thy 
God,  He  it  is  that  doth  go  with  thee ;  He  will  not  fail  thee, 
nor  forsake  thee."  I  continued  my  reading,  and  at  the  end 
of  the  chapter  closed  the  Book,  and  from  Moses  my  mind 
traveled  at  once  to  Mazamboni.  Was  it  fatigue,  incipient 
ague,  or  an  admonitory  symptom  of  ailment,  or  a  shade 
of  spiteful  feeling  against  our  cowardly  four,  and  a  vague 
sense  of  distrust  that  at  some  critical  time  my  loons  would 
fly?  .  .  .  But  a  voice  appeared  to  say,  "Be  strong  and  of 
a  good  courage;  fear  not,  nor  be  afraid  of  them."  I  could 
almost  have  sworn  I  heard  the  voice.  I  began  to  argue  with 
it.  Why  do  you  adjure  me  to  abandon  the  Mission  ?  I  can 
not  run  if  I  would.  To  retreat  would  be  far  more  fatal  than 
to  advance ;  therefore  your  encouragement  is  unnecessary. 
It  replied,  nevertheless,  ''Be  strong  and  of  good  courage. 
Advance  and  be  confident,  for  I  will  give  this  people  and  this 
land  unto  thee.  I  will  not  fail  thee  nor  forsake  thee ;  fear 
not,  nor  be  dismayed." — Pages  311  and  312,  Volume  11^  "/;/ 
Darkest  Africa^^  by  Henry  M.  Stanley. 


JAMES  STANLEY, 

(SEVENTH  EARL  OF  DERBY.) 

English  Royalist.     (1596-1651.) 

v^S  for  my  faith  and  my  religion,  thus  much  I  have  at 
this  time  to  say :  I  profess  faith  to  be  in  Jesus  Christ, 
who  died  for  me,  from  whom  I  look  for  my  salva- 
tion ;  that  is,  through  His  only  merit  and  suflerings. 
I  thank  my  God  for  the  quiet  of  my  conscience  at  this  time, 
and  the  assurance  of  those  joys  that  are  prepared  for  those 
who  fear  Him.  Good  people,  pray  for  me;  I  do  for  you;  the 
God  of  heaven  bless  you  all,  and  send  you  peace. — Page  239 
in  "  The  Worthies^''''  by  Hartley  Coleridge. 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  425 

EDWIN  McMASTERS  STANTON, 

Lawyer,   and    Secretary  of    War   under    President   Lincoln^ 

Pc.pi^  (1814-1869.) 

UCH  being  the  nature  of  adultery,  we  can  easily  perl- 
ceive  why  it  is  that  in  Holy  Writ  the  crime  of  the 
adulterer  is  pronounced  to  be  one  which  admits  of 
no  ransom  and  no  recompense.  We  can  perceive 
why  it  is  that  in  every  book  of  the  Old  and  New  Testament  it 
is  denounced  ;  why  it  is  that  by  every  holy  lawgiver,  prophet^ 
and  saint  it  is  condemned.  .  .  .  The  Redeemer  of  man- 
kind, when  on  earth,  is  supposed  to  have  mitigated  the  pun- 
ishment of  the  adulteress  by  requiring  him  who  was  without 
sin  to  cast  the  first  stone  at  her.  No  such  condition,  how- 
ever, was  imposed  in  favor  of  the  adulterer.  There  was  na 
mitigation  of  his  crime,  and  we  know  our  Saviour's  judg- 
ment of  the  sin  when  he  declared  that  "he  who  looketh  at  a 
woman  to  lust  after  her  committeth  adultery  in  his  hearts"' 
From  the  silence  of  Scripture  on  the  occasion  recorded  in- 
the  Gospel  of  John  it  is  to  be  inferred  that,  as  the  adulterer 
and  adulteress  had  been  taken  in  the  act,  the  adulterer  on 
that  day  in  Jerusalem  had  been  put  to  death  by  the  husband, 
as  he  might  be  by  the  Roman  law,  before  the  adulteress  had 
been  brought  to  our  Saviour's  feet. — Page  332  of  ^'^  Great 
Speeches  by  great  Lawyers ^^"^  compiled  by  William  L.  Snyder, 


WILLIAM  T.  STEAD, 

English  Journalist ;  Editor  of  the  "  Review  of 
Reviews." 

HEN  I  was  a  child  I  was  taught  at  my  mother^s 
knee  that  the  Bible  was  the  Word  of  God.  I  am 
now  forty-four  years  of  age ;  I  have  lived  a  tolera- 
bly active  life,  and  what  I  received  as  a  youth  on. 
the  word  of  mother,  I  now  know  to  be  true  as  a  result  of  ex- 
perimental knowledge.  As  a  companion,  as  an  inspiration,  as 


426  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

I 

a  guide,  there  is  no  Book  to  be  compared  to  it ;  especially  at 
times  when  you  are  hard  hit,  and  don't  know  which  way  to 
turn  or  what  to  do. 

There  is  a  great  deal  that  is  human  in  the  Bible.  It  is  at 
least  as  human  as  Divine,  therefore  all  the  more  to  be  treas- 
ured. It  is  among  books  what  Christ  was  in  life — the  incar- 
nation of  the  Divine  Spirit  in  the  human  body.  As  a  child 
I  was  told  that  Jesus  Christ  was  the  Saviour  of  the  soul. 
That  is  true ;  but  advancing  years  bring  an  ever-increasing 
consciousness  of  the  fact  that  His  mission  was  to  be  the 
Saviour  of  the  world,  and  that  the  world  will  never  be  saved 
excepting  by  His  spirit  being  incarnated  again  in  the  sons 
and  daughters  of  men  through  faith. 


EDMUND  CLARENCE  STEDMAN, 

Poet. 

PROTEST  OF  FAITH. 

;F,  indeed,  I  sin 
In  counting  somewhat  freely  on  that  Love 
From  which,  through  rolling  ages,  worlds  have  sprung, 
And,  last  and  best  of  all,  the  lords  of  worlds. 
Through  type  on  type  uplifted  from  the  clay ; 
If  I  have  been  exultant  in  the  thought 
That  such  humanity  came  so  near  to  God 
He  held  us  as  His  children,  and  would  find 
Imperial  progress  through  the  hills  of  Time 
For  every  soul,  why,  then,  my  crescent  faith 
'Clings  round  the  promise  ;  if  it  spread  beyond. 
You  think,  too  far,  I  say  that  Peter  sprang 
Upon  the  waves  of  surging  Galilee, 
While  all  the  eleven  hugged  the  ship  in  fear. 
The  waters  were  as  stone  unto  his  feet 
Until  he  doubted.     Even  then  the  Christ 
Put  forth  a  blessed  hand,  and  drew  him  on 
"To  closer  knowledge ! 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  427 

JOEL  DORMAN  STEELE, 

Educator,  and  Author  of  Scientific  Text-Books. 

E  have  traced  some  of  the  wonderful  processes  by 
which  this  world  has  been  arranged  to  supply  the' 
varied  wants  of  man.  Wherever  we  have  turned, 
we  have  found  proofs  of  a  Divine  care,  planning, 
conforming,  and  directing  to  one  universal  end ;  while  from 
the  commonest  things,  and  by  the  simplest  means,  the  grand- 
est results  have  been  attained.  Thus  does  Nature  attest  the 
sublime  truth  of  Revelation,  that  in  all,  and  through  all,  and 
over  all,  the  Lord  God  Omnipotent  reigneth. 

Dead  matter,  as  we  commonly  call  it,  is  instinct  with  force. 
Each  tiny  atom  is  attracted  here,  repelled  there,  holds  and 
is  held  by  bands  of  iron.  No  particle  is  left  to  itself,  but, 
watched  by  the  Eternal  Eye  and  guided  by  the  Eternal 
Hand,  all  obey  immutable  law.  When  Christ  declared  the 
very  hairs  of  our  head  to  be  numbered.  He  intimated  a  chem- 
ical truth,  which  we  can  now  know  in  full  to  be,  that  the  very- 
atoms  of  which  each  hair  is  composed  are  numbered  by  the 
same  watchful  Providence. — ^''Text-Book  on  Chemistry^'*''  by 
Joel  Dorman  Steele. 


SIR  RICHARD  STEELE, 

English  Essayist.     (1671-1729.) 

UT  is  this  the  Saviour  ?  is  this  the  Deliverer  ?  Shall 
this  obscure  Nazarene  command  Israel,  and  sit  on  the 
Throne  of  David  ?  Their  proud  and  disdainful  hearts, 
which  were  petrified  with  the  love  and  pride  of  this 
world,  were  impregnable  to  the  reception  of  so  mean  a  Ben- 
efactor, and  were  now  enough  exasperated  with  benefits  to 
conspire  His  death.  Our  Lord  was  sensible  of  their  design, 
and  prepared  His  disciples  for  it.  .  .  .  It  was  a  great 
article  of  our  Saviour's  business  in  the  world  to  bring  us  to 
a  sense  of  our  inability,  without  God's  assistance,  to  do  any 
thing  great  or  good. 


428  A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

I 
But  what  heart  can  conceive,  what  tongue  can  utter  the 
.sequel  ?  Who  is  that  yonder,  buffeted,  mocked,  and  spurned? 
Whom  do  they  drag  like  a  felon?  Whither  do  they  carry 
my  I/ord,  my  Saviour,  and  my  God  ?  And  will  He  die  to  ex- 
piate those  very  injuries?  See  where  they  have  nailed  the 
Lord  and  Giver  of  Life  !  How  His  wounds  blacken.  His 
body  writhes,  and  heart  heaves  with  pity  and  agony  !  Oh ! 
Almighify  Sufferer,  look  down,  look  down  from  Thy  triumph- 
ant infamy ;  lo !  He  inclines  His  Head  to  His  sacred  bosom  ! 
Hark !  He  groans  !  see !  He  expires !  The  earth  trembles,  the 
temple  rends,  the  rocks  burst,  the  dead  arise  !  Which  are  the 
quick  ?  Which  are  the  dead  ?  Sure,  nature,  all  nature  is 
departing  with  her  Creator! — Paper  356  of  ^^ The  Spectator ^^^ 
J)y  Addison  and  Steele. 


SIR  JAMES  STEPHEN, 

."Historian,  Author,  and  Professor  of  Modern   History  in  the   University  of 
Cambridge.     {1789-1859  ) 

[.  .ROM  our  Redeemer  Himself  we  have  learnt  what  are 
the  two  commandments  on  which  hang  all  the  law 
and  the  prophets.  From  the  disciple  who  lay  on  His 
bosom,  and  whom  He  selected  as  the  channel  of  His 
liigher  revelations,  we  have  learnt  what  are  the  two  truths 
lon  which  hang  all  the  other  doctrines  of  the  Gospel :  the 
first  is  that  God  is  Light ;  the  second  is  that  God  is  Love. 
Nor  must  it  be  forgotten  that  the  Scriptures  are  written  in 
languages  totally  unknown  to  the  vast  body  of  those  who 
read  them,  and  that  incomparably  the  most  important  part 
of  the  Scriptures  (that  is,  the  words  of  our  Lord  and  Saviour 
Himself)  are  known  to  the  most  learned  only  by  translation. 
Here,  then,  is  another  source  of  the  diversity  of  our  judg- 
ments about  the  real  sense  of  the  Word  of  God. — See 
Epilogue^  Volume  11^  ^^ Essays  in  Ecclesiastical  Biography,^''  by 
Mie  Right  Honorable  Sir  James  Stephen. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  449 

JOHN  LLOYD  STEPHENS, 

Traveler  and  Author.     (1805-1852.) 

WOULD  that  the  sceptic  could  stand,  as  I  did,  among* 
the  ruins  of  this  city,  and  there  open  the  sacred  Book, 
and  read  the  words  of  the  inspired  penman  written 
when  this  desolate  place  was  one  of  the  greatest  cities 
of  the  world.  I  see  the  scoffer  arrested,  his  cheek  pale,  his  lip 
quivering,  and  his  heart  quaking  with  fear,  as  the  ancient 
city  cries  out  to  him,  in  a  voice  loud  and  powerful  as  one 
risen  from  the  dead.  Though  he  would  not  believe  Moses 
and  the  Prophets,  he  believes  the  handwriting  of  God  Him- 
self, in  the  desolation  and  eternal  ruin  around  him. — ^^Inci- 
dents of  Travel  in  Egypt ^  Arabia^  Petria^  and  the  Holy  Land^^'' 
J)y  John  Lloyd  Stephens, 


ALEXANDER  HAMILTON  STEPHENS. 

Statesman.     (1812-1883.) 

AM  a  member  of  the  Church,  and  have  been  since  my 
boyish  days.     They  have  never  turned  me  out,  and  I 
have  tried  to  live  so  that  they  could  never  have  occa- 
sion to  do  so.     I   am  trusting  in  the  atonement  of 
Christ  for  its  cleansing  efficacy. 

Never  before,  perhaps,  were  the  great  truths  of  the  Bible 
from  Genesis  to  Revelation  more  powerfully  assailed  than 
at  present.  They  who  lead  the  assault  are  Rationalists. 
They  are  also  known  as  Materialists  in  philosophy.  The 
assaults  of  these  schools  must  be  met  and  their  sophisms 
confuted  by  the  Sunday-School  by  upholding  and  sustaining 
the  plain  and  spiritual  truths  of  the  Bible.  .  .  .  These 
are  some  of  the  simple  truths,  teachers,  which  I  have 
thought  it  proper  to  say  you  should  impress  upon  the  minds 
of  your  pupils.  By  these  doctrines  and  principles  they  will 
not   only   be    shielded   against  the  errors    stated,  but  their 


430  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNEvSSES. 

innate  moral  sense  will  be  cultivated ;  their  spiritual  attri- 
butes of  devotion  will  be  developed  through  the  mysterious 
agency  of  prayer ;  and  their  regeneration — that  new  spirit- 
ual birth — though  faith,  so  essential  to  salvation,  will  be 
consummated;  and  by  which  their  fallen  human  natures  will 
be  elevated  and  sublimated  to  a  proper  fitness  for  that  higher 
life  in  which  they  will  be  in  perfect  and  eternal  communion 
with  their  Creator. — Pages  348  and  350,  ^''Haphazard  Per- 
sonalities^'' by  Charles  Lanman. 


ROBERT  LOUIS  STEVENSON, 

British  Novelist.     (1850-1894.) 

^T  is  much  more  important  to  do  right  than 
to  do  wrong ;  the  faithful  design  to  'do  right 
is  accepted  by  God ;  that  seems  to  me  to  be 
the  Gospel,  and  that  was  how  Christ  de- 
livered us  from  the  law.  If  we  beJieve  in  God, 
where  is  there  any  room  for  terror?  If  we  fail,  Christ  tells 
us  to  hope. — Christmas  Sermon  to  his  Mother;  see  ''The 
Letters  of  Robert  L.  Stevenson,''  edited  by  Sidney  Colvin, 


MARK  J.  STEWART, 

Member  of  Parliament, 

E  should  all  resolve  to  work  yet  more  earnestly  in 
God's  vineyard  while  it  is  called  to-day,  and  ta 
leave  no  effort  unattempted  by  which  we  may- 
advance  the  spread  of  the  Gospel.  But  we  da 
not  forget  the  words  of  our  Lord's  commission,  "Go  ye  inta 
all  the  world  and  preach  the  Gospel  to  every  creature."  Yon 
will  see  that  in  Portugal  the  good  work  has  been  spreading, 
and  that  the  Society's  tract  spade,  so  to  speak,  has  turned 
the  first  sod,  and,  like  a  great  engine,  it  has  gone  on  cease- 
lessly working  for  the  spread  of  truth.     There,  in  that  old 


A    CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES.  43I 

l)riest-ridden  country,  we  hear  of  tracts  and  Bibles  having 
been  sold,  and  of  people  forsaking  their  superstitions  for  the 
simplicity  of  the  Gospel,  and  boldly  affirming 

"On  Christ,  the  solid  rock,  I  stand; 
All  other  ground  is  sinking  sand." 

— Address  in  the  Great  Hall  of  the  Cannon  Street  Hotel,  Lon- 
don, May  20,  1890. 


6^ 


BALFOUR  STEWART, 

British  Physicist. 

PETER  GUTHRIE  TAIT, 

Professor  of  Mathematics,  University  of  Edinburg. 


UR  object  in  the  present  work  is  to  endeavor  to  show 
that  the  presumed  incompatibility  of  Science  and  Re- 
^f)^  ligion  does  not  exist.     This,  indeed,  ought  to  be  self- 
evident  to  all  who  believe  that  the  Creator  of  the 
Universe  is  Himself  the  Author  of  Revelation. 

Blessed  Lord,  who  hast  caused  all  Holy  Scripture  to  be 
written  for  our  learning,  grant  that  we  may  in  such  wise 
hear  them,  read,  mark,  learn,  and  inwardly  digest  them,  that 
by  patience,  and  comfort  of  Thy  holy  Word,  we  may  em- 
brace and  ever  hold  fast  the  blessed  hope  of  everlasting  life^ 
which  Thou  hast  given  us  in  our  Saviour,  Jesus  Christ. — 
From  Preface  and  Prayer,  "  The  Unseen  Universe, ^^  by  B, 
Stewart  and  P,  G,  Tail. 


RICHARD  STOCKTON, 

Signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 
(1730-1781.) 

S>7V^S  my  children  will  have  frequent  occasion  of  perus- 
^^[qV  ing  this  instrument,  and  may  probably  be  peculiarly 
^  (^  impressed  with  the  last  words  of  their  father,  I  think 
proper  here,  not  only  to  subscribe  to  the  entire  be- 
lief of  the  great  leading  doctrines  of  the  Christian  religion, 


432  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

such  as  the  being  of  God,  the  universal  defection  and  de- 
pravity of  human  nature,  the  divinity  of  the  Person,  and 
completeness  of  the  redemption  purchased  by  the  blessed 
Saviour ;  the  necessity  of  the  Divine  Spirit,  of  Divine  faithy 
accompanied  with  an  habitual  virtuous  life,  and  the  univer- 
sality of  Divine  Providence  ;  but  also  in  the  heart  of  a  father's 
affection  to  charge  and  exhort  them  to  remember  "that  the 
fear  of  the  Lord  is  the  beginning  of  wisdom/' — From  his 
Will.  See  page  463,  ''^American  Christian  Rulers ^^^  by  Ed- 
ward J.  Giddings. 

GEORGE  GABRIEL  STOKES, 

Late  Frcrsident  of  the  Royal  Society,  Professor  of  Mathematics  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Cambridge,  and  M.  P.  for  the  University, 

E  all  admit  that  the  book  of  Nature  and  the  Book 
of  Revelation  come  alike  from  God,  and  that,  con- 
sequently, there  can  be  no  real  discrepancy  be- 
tween the  two  if  rightly  interpreted.  The  prov- 
inces of  Science  and  of  Revelation  are,  for  the  most  part, 
so  distinct .  that  there  is  little  chance  for  collision. — From 
the  Bible  Society  Monthly  Reporter^  London^  January^  1889. 
By  the  incarnation,  the  human  nature  was  taken  into  the 
Divine ;  and  though  sinless  Himself,  the  Son  of  God  suffered 
death,  the  appointed  penalty  of  transgression,  in  order  that 
through  His  blood  we  might  have  redemption,  the  forgive- 
ness of  sins.  By  the  human  and  the  Divine  natures  being 
united  in  Him  it  was  not  possible  that  He  should  be  held 
down  by  death,  and  He  arose  from  the  dead,  the  first  fruits 
of  them  that  slept ;  rose,  however,  not  to  the  natural  hu- 
man life  in  which  He  was  crucified,  but  to  a  mysterious, 
supernatural,  higher  life,  of  which  the  redeemed  are  in  due 
time  to  be  partakers.  How  it  is  that  the  death  of  Christ  is 
effectual  to  the  forgiveness  of  sins  and  restoration  of  men  to 
a  condition  of  perfect  innocence  is  a  great  mystery,  which 
will  probably  never  be  understood  till  in  a  future  life  it  is 
experienced;  and,  perhaps,  attempts  to  explain  it  has  done 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  433 

more  harm  than  good.  It  is  enough  for  us  to  trust  that  it 
will  be  for  those  who  come  under  the  conditions  of  it. — 
From  the  Chapter  on  "  The  Scientific  and  Moral  Arguments 
concerning  a  Future  Life^  Supplemented  by  the  Teachings  of 
Revelation^''  in  ^''That  Unknown  Country.'''' 


EMERY  ALEXANDER  STORRS, 

Lawyer.     (1835-1886.) 

^N  his  personal  recollections  of  this  lawyer,  Mr.  M.  P. 
Brady  relates  this  incident :  *'  Himself  and  a  Mr.  W.  J. 
Culver  were  invited  by  Mr.  Storrs  to  his  room  one 
evening,  and  after  picturing  to  them  Florence  Cathedral 
in  his  peculiar  brilliant  manner,  he  replied  earnestly  to  one 
of  the  guests  who  had  made  some  doubtful  remark  as  to  the 
Divinity  of  Christ,  and,  rising  to  his  feet  at  the  same  mo- 
ment, "  Stop  right  there — right  there  !  Was  there  ever  any 
other  h\iman  being  like  Him?  Follow  His  whole  history 
from  the  beginning,  and  if  you  still  doubt  who  He  was,  listen 
to  His  last  utterance.  There  on  the  Cross  He  was  suffering 
the  most  fearful  torments  imaginable,  hearing  the  jeers  and 
the  insults  of  the  crowd,  and  yet  He  said  these  grand  words : 
*  Father,  forgive  them ;  for  they  know  not  what  they  do ! ' 
When  was  there  ever  a  human  being  that  could  rise  to  such 
a  height  of  charity  and  forbearance?" 


c 


WILLIAM  STRONG, 

Justice  of  United  States  Supreme  Court.  (iBio-iSSo). 

■\^Z"OU  ask   me  what  I   think  of  Christ?     He    is   the 


Chiefest  among  ten  thousand,  and  altogether  lovely 
2  ^^Q^  — my  Lord,  my  Saviour,  and  my  God. 

What  do  I  think  of  the  Bible?  It  is  the  infallible 
Word  of  God,  a  light  erected  all  along  the  shores  of  time  to 
warn  against  the  rocks  and  breakers,  and  to  show  the  only 
way  to  the  harbor  of  eternal  rest.       /i^^y^^ 


434  ^   CI^OUD    OF    WITNESSES.   . 

JOSEPH  STORY,* 

'    Justice  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court,  (1811-1845). 
(1779-1845.) 

HY  may  not  the  Bible,  and  especially  the  New 
Testament,  without  note  or  comment,  be  read  and 
taught  as  a  Divine  Revelation  in  the  college,  its 
general  precepts  expounded,  its  evidences  ex- 
plained, and  its  glorious  principles  of  morality  inculcated  ? 
What  is  there  to  prevent  a  work,  not  sectarian,  upon  the 
general  evidences  of  Christianity,  from  being  read  and  taught 
in  the  college  by  lay  teachers  ? 

It  may  well  be  asked,  what  is  there  in  all  this,  which  is 
positively  enjoined,  inconsistent  with  the  spirit  or  truths  of 
the  religion  of  Christ?  Are  not  these  truths  all  taught 
by  Christianity,  although  it  teaches  much  more?  Where  can 
the  purest  principles  of  morality  be  learned  so  clearly  or  so 
perfectly  as  from  the  New  Testament? — See  ^^Life  and  Let- 
ters of  Judge  Story ^^^  edited  by  his  son^  William  JV.  Story ^ 
Chapter  XI I ^  Vohmie  II. 

*His  son,  William  W.  Story,  in  the  same  authority  as  above,  sums  up 
liis  father's  religious  faith  as  follows  :  "  He  believed  in  the  inspiration 
and  doctrine  of  Christ,  in  the  immortality  of  the  soul,  in  the  unity  of  God^ 
and  he  often  intimated  a  design  to  write  a  work  in  which  the  rules  of 
legal  evidence  should  be  applied  to  the  facts  of  the  Gospel  narrative,  and  to 
the  question  of  its  authenticity  argued  before  a  court  of  justice." 


WILLIAM  WETMORE  STORY, 

Sculptor  and  Poet. 


A  SONG  OF  ISRAEL. 

^UR  Christ  shall  come  in  glory  and  in  power, 
Born  to  command. 
He  shall  not  weep  or  pray,  or  cringe  or  cower, 
But  with  God's  lightnings  in  His  hand 
Tremendous  then  shall  stand. 

*Son  of  Judge  Joseph  Story,  whose  testimony  precedes  this  selection. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  435 

All  eyes  shall  drop  before  His  face 

In  doubt  and  dread ; 
When  He  shall  come,  the  Saviour  of  our  race, 
The  crown  of  triumph  on  His  head, 

Even  as  the  prophet  said. 


The  hand  and  thought  of  man  shall  quail  before 

That  shape  august ; 
And  prostrate  every  face  to  earth  adore 
Him  in  whose  balance  we  are  dust. 

The  mighty  King — the  Just. 

Then  shall  the  song  of  triumph  once  again 

For  us  be  heard, 
And  Israel's  children  sound  the  joyous  strain, 
The  Christ  has  come — the  King  and  Lord — 

The  Wonderful— the  Word. 


SIR  WILLIAM  STIRLING, 

British  Lieutenant-General. 

.HE  Divine  Scriptures  lose  nothing  of  the  frequency  of 
their  being  read,  and  it  is  one  of  the  glorious  things 
about  God's  Word  that  He  can  make  it  fresh  each 
succeeding  time  we  read  it.  .  .  .  The  old  dis- 
pensation, it  is  true,  has  passed  away ;  the  veil  of  the  temple 
has  been  rent  in  twain  from  the  top  to  the  bottom,  and  we 
are  told  that  it  is  not  the  blood  of  goats,  but  by  Christ's  own 
blood  that  He  entered  into  the  Holy  Place,  having  obtained 
eternal  redemption  for  us. — See  Address  at  the  Mildmay  Con- 
ference. 

COUNT  JOHANN  FRIEDRICH  STRUENSEE 

Physician,  and  Prime  Minister  of  Denmark.   ( 1737-1772.) 

HE  perpetual  remembrance  of  the  greatness  of  God's 
mercy,  which  was  shown  to  me  by  the  redemption  of 
Christ,  made  me  overcome  those  difficulties  I  found 
arose  from  my  natural  disposition.     .     .     .     Now  I 


43^  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

am  praying  to  God  that  He  may  do  it,  and  I  am  persuaded 
He  will,  since  Christ  has  promised  it.  Prayer  takes  away 
the  uneasiness  I  have  on  this  and  other  points  which  are  dis- 
agreeable for  me  to  remember.  I  direct  my  thoughts  to 
God,  repeat  the  doctrines  of  the  Gospel,  reflect  on  their  con- 
nection, apply  them  to  myself,  and  if  I  address  myself  to 
God  in  prayer  in  the  name  of  my  Redeemer  for  these  mer- 
cies, I  find  that  these  contribute  to  render  me  easy,  and  I 
admire  with  gratitude  the  power  of  religion. — From  a  ^^Nar- 
rative of  His  Life^^^  by  D.  Munter^  pages  247  and  248. 


CHARLES  SUMNER, 

United  States  Senator,  1851  till  Death.      (1811-1874.) 

AMIIvIARITY  with  that  great  story  of  redemption, 
_  ^  when  God  raised  up  the  slave-born  Moses  to  deliver 
His  chosen  people  from  bondage,  and  with  that  sub- 
limer  story  where  our  Saviour  died  a  cruel  death  that 
all  men,  without  distinction  of  race,  might  be  saved,  makes 
slavery  impossible. 

Because  Christians  are  in  the  minority  there  is  no  reason 
for  renouncing  Christianity,  or  for  surrendering  to  the  false 
religions;  nor  do  I  doubt  that  Christianity  will  yet  prevail 
over  the  earth  as  the  waters  cover  the  sesi.— Pages  321,  171, 
* '  Life  and  Public  Services  of  Charles  Sumner^ "  by  E,  C, 
Lester. 


^ 


CHARLES  W.  SUPER, 

President  of  Ohio  University. 


"H 


^7yj>FTER    years   of   careful    attention    to   the   subject, 
^^(7\  I  have  become  convinced  that  Christianity  is  pre- 
eminently   the   miracle   of    the    Ages.       The   doc- 
trines taught  by  Jesus  Christ  and  the  morality  of 
the  Holy  Scriptures  are  a  consistent  whole,  and  it  is  only  on 


s^^^^^ 


UNIVERSITY   PRESIDENTS. 


ANDREW  S.  Draper. 

^^S"^  135- 


Seth  low, 

Page  2g4. 


Daniel  c.  Oilman,  George  e.  MacLean, 


Richard  H.  Jesse, 

Page  2^4.  Page  i6g.  Page  304. 

FRANCIS  H.  Snow,  William  P.  Johnston, 

Page  41^.  Page  2^7. 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  437 

the  lines  therein  laid  down  that  one  can  attain  the  highest 
happiness  of  which  he  is  capable.  I  am  unable  to  see  how 
the  most  searching  criticism  can  ever,  in  the  slightest  de- 
gree detract  from  the  value  of  the  Bible  as  the  great  ethical 
code  of  the  human  race.  n  /         c 


GEORGE  HAY  STUART, 

President  of  the   Christian    Commission  during  the  Civil   War 
Philanthropist. 

HAVE  prayed  for  this  union  ;  and  I  have  labored  for 
it,  simply  because  I  believed  that  it  would  bring  glor^ 
to  my  blessed  Lord  and  Master,  Jesus  Christ.  .  .  . 
I  have  labored  and  prayed  for  it,  because  it  would 
bring  brethren  together,  now  unhappily  divided,  -to  see  eye 
to  eye,  that  the  nations  that  have  so  long  bowed  down  to- 
idols  might  learn  of  Jesus  and  Him  crucified. — Page  578, 
* '  The  Presbyterian  Church  Throughout  the  World, ' ' 


SIR  JOHN  LINTORN  ARABIN  SIMMONS, 

British  Field-Marshal ;    Commandant  Royal  Engineers. 

>HE  army  scattered  over  the  world  might  be  the  best 
means  of  converting  the  heathen  to-  our  Christian 
faith.  Missionaries  are  doing  a  noble  work  for  the 
extension  of  the  Gospel  of  our  Divine  Lord,  but  if 
the  soldiers  were  what  they  ought  to  be  in  the  sight  of  God, 
they  would  be  more  effective  than  a  few  missionaries  here 
and  there. — Page  219,  Mildmay  Report^  1899. 


DAVID  LOWRY  SWAIN, 

Lawyer,  Governor,  and  Educator,     (1801-1868,) 

WAS  incited  by  pious  parents  to  the  frequent  perusal 
of  the  Holy  Scriptures  in  my  childhood.     The  foun- 
dation of  a  habit  laid  so  early  by  such  hands  has  been 
strengthened  by  the  lapse  of  time.     Some  years  since, 
influenced  by  the  suggestion  of  the  younger  Adams  to  his 


438  A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

son,  I  determined  to  read  the  Sacred  Volume  through  once  a 
year,  by  assigning  five  chapters  as  the  ordinary  and  appro- 
priate duty  of  each  day.  .  .  .  During  the  seventeen 
years  that  I  have  been  connected  with  the  University  it  has 
been  a  part  of  my  routine  duty  to  hear  a  recitation  of  the 
senior  class  every  Sabbath  throughout  the  scholastic  year. 
I  have  uniformly  availed  myself  of  this  opportunity  to  direct 
the  attention  of  the  class,  sometimes  by  systematic  instruction 
in  the  text,  and  always  by  frequent  references,  to  the  Holy 
Scriptures.  .  .  .  If  a  skeptic  were  to  engage  sincerely  in 
the  performance  of  such  a  duty,  the  declaration  of  our  Saviour 
that  "  if  any  man  will  do  His  will,  he  shall  know  of  the 
doctrine"  might  find  a  practical  exemplification. — '"''Testi- 
mony to  the  Value  of  the  Sacred  Scriptiires^^  by  the  American 
Bible  Society. 

JOSEPH  SWAIN, 

President  of  Indiana  University. 

^HE  BIBLE  must  be  interpreted  by  human  agencies 
just  as  it  was  revealed  to  human  agencies. 

I  wish  to  express  the  belief  that  between  the  two 
great  Divine  books.  Nature  and  the  Bible,  as  origi- 
nally revealed,  there  can  be  no  essential  difference. 

God's  Word  does  not  teach  physical  truths  so  much  as 
moral  truths,  and  the  things  which  are  largely  beyond  the 
pale  of  natural  science.  Wherever  nature  is  described  it  is 
incidental  to  moral  teachings. 

Sir  William  Rowan  Hamilton  appears  to  have  been  an 
earnest  believer  in  Christ,  as  numerous  references  in  his 
writings  show.  "  I  am  only  too  happy,"  he  remarks,  ''  to 
bear  my  testimony  to  the  truth  of  the  Christian  religion, 
and  as  not  being  prevented  by  my  scientific  studies  from 
believing  what  a  Christian  ought  to  believe." 

Andrew  D.  White,  late  President  of  Cornell  University, 
finds  that,  after  all  the  conflict  in  the  realms  of  religion,  the 
Psalms  of  David  remain  no  less  beautiful,  the  great  utter- 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  439 

ances  of  the  Hebrew  prophets  no  less  powerful,  the  sermon 
on  the  Mount,  "the  first  commandment,  and  the  second 
which  is  like  unto  it,"  the  definition  of  pure  religion  and 
undefiled,  by  St.  James,  appeal  no  less  to  the  deepest  things 
in  the  human  heart. 

In  1882  letters  were  published  from  eight  of  the  leading 
scientists  of  the  world  in  answer  to  the  three  following 
questions : 

1.  Are  a  majority  of  the  recognized  authorities  in  phys- 
ical science  hostile  to  Christianity  ? 

2.  Is  there  any  necessary  antagonism  between  physical 
science  and  Christianity? 

3.  Is  the  study  of  physical  science  of  necessity  prejudi- 
cial, in  the  student  himself,  to  a  personal  acceptance  of 
Christianity  ? 

*  The  eight  men  referred  to  are  Sir  John  W.  Dawson,  of 
McGill  College ;  Professor  Charles  A.  Young,  of  Princeton  Col- 
lege ;  Professor  Tait,  of  Edinburgh  University ;  Professor 
Kirkwood,  of  Indiana  University ;  the  late  Professor  Asa 
Gray,  and  Professor  Benjamin  Peirce,  both  of  Harvard ; 
Professor  Joseph  LeConte,  of  the  University  of  California; 
and  Professor  James  D.  Dana,  of  Yale  College.  Not  one  of 
this  galaxy  answered  the  second  or  third  question  in  the 
affirmative ;  that  is,  not  one  believed  that  there  is  any  neces- 
sary antagonism  between  science  and  Christianity ;  neither 
prejudicial,  in  the  student  himself,  to  a  personal  acceptance 
of  it.  The  first  question  is  answered  more  fully,  but  I  shall 
only  summarize  their  views :  Dawson  and  Gray  are  in- 
clined to  think  that  only  a  small  majority  of  scientific  men 
are  hostile  to  Christianity.  Professor  Young  believes  that 
of  the  scientific  men  of  his  acquaintance,  a  small,  but  rather 
noisy,  minority  are  hostile  to  it.  Professor  Tait  is  certain 
that  the  question  can  be  answered  negatively  with  reference 
to  Great  Britain.  "  Our  own  time,"  says  Professor  Kirk- 
wood, "  is  not  an  exception  to  the  historic  fact  that  in  all  ages 

*The  witnesses  named  here,  with  one  exception,  have  testified  else- 
where in  this  book. 


440  A   CI^OUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

minds  of  broadest  culture  have  accepted  Christianity."  Pro- 
fessor Dana  replies  with  an  emphatic  ''  No,"  and  Professor 
Peirce  was  not  aware  that  any  of  the  leading  men  in  phys- 
ical science  are  opposed  to  what  they  believed  to  be  Chris- 
tianity, and  the  lives  of  the  best  authorities  in  science  have 
always  been  of  purity  which  Christianity  could  not  -but  ap- 


JOHN  LINDSAY  SWIFT, 

Deputy  Collector  of  Customs,  Boston. 

NEVER  left  my  mother  in  my  life  but  that  she  said 
to  me,  "  I  want  to  live  long  enough  to  see  you  come 
to  your  Lord  and  Saviour."  On  one  occasion  during 
the  war  for  the  flag  I  was  invited  to  deliver  an  address 
in  Tremont  Temple.  The  hall  was  crowded  and  the  inter- 
est intense,  and  at  a  certain  point  the  whole  audience  rose 
to  their  feet,  surging  and  swaying  with  cheers.  As  I  stood 
there  alone  amid  this  wild  outburst  of  enthusiasm  I  looked 
into  the  left  gallery  and  saw  one  pale,  unemotional  face.  It 
was  the  face  of  my  mother.  She  is  a  little  woman,  and  it 
-seems  as  if  I  could  lift  her  in  the  palm  of  my  hand ;  but 
she  had  great  faith  and  love.  And  when  I  met  her  she  said, 
^'I  have  given  you  freely,  my  son,  to  the  country;  but  oh,  if 
I  could  see  you  stand  there  and  talk  for  your  Saviour  I  would 
ask  nothing  more  on  this  earth."  And  when  I  took  my 
stand  I  went  home  directly  to  that  mother.  I  don't  know 
that  I  can  get  on  with  this  part  of  my  story,  but  you  will  un- 
derstand the  difficulty.  The  stars  in  the  skies  scarcely  out- 
number the  prayers  she  had  given  to  her  Father  on  my  be- 
half. And  I  was  going  home,  the  last  one  in  her  band  of 
children,  resolved  to  tell  her  that  her  Saviour  was  my 
Saviour,  and  her  God  was  my  God.  We  were  all  there,  an 
unbroken  and  redeemed  family.  She  gathered  me  in  her 
arms  as  tenderly  as  when  I  was  a  helpless  child.     There  is  a 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  44I 

passage  in  Scripture,  "Except  ye  be  converted,  an  .  become 
as  little  children,  ye  shall  not  enter  into  the  kingdom  of 
heaven."  I  know  what  that  means.  I  know  what  it  is  to 
feel  as  a  little  child,  if  my  hairs  are  gray  with  the  footfalls  of 
time. — Delivered  in  Boston  in  1877  at  the  Moody  Meetings. 


LEWIS  SWIFT, 

CN   o  Astronomer;  Director  of  the  Warner  Observatory. 

^\^T0\5  ask  me  as  an  astronomer  my  personal  opinion 
■'^^'Y;^  of  Christ  and  the   Bible.     To  the  first  question   I 

)  *:^22^  answer :  I  believe  Christ  was,  in  whatever  respect 
He  may  be  contemplated,  the  most  remarkable  Per- 
sonage that  ever  was  a  denizen  of  our  planet.  I  believe  He 
was  as  He  claimed  to  be,  the  Son  of  Man,  and  the  Son  of 
Ood,  a  combination  of  the  human  and  Divine  natures.  To 
the  second  question  I  answer:  I  believe  the  Bible  to  be  the 
Word  of  God,  and  as  it  came  from  the  hands  of  its  inspired 
authors  was  free  from  errors  of  every  kind,  and  that  it  is  the 
i^nly  infallible  rule  of  faith  and  practice. 


^^  i^A^iH^  ^/iy^>-t^ 


ALGERNON  CHARLES  SWINBURNE, 

English  Poet. 


FROM  "CHRISTMAS  ANTIPHONES. 


HOU  whose  birth  on  earth 
Angels  sang  to  men, 
While  Thy  stars  made  mirth, 
Saviour,  at  Thy  birth, 
This  day  born  again  ; 


442  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

As  this  night  was  bright 

With  Thy  cradle-ray, 
Very  Light  of  light, 
In  the  wild  world's  night 
To  Thy  perfect  day. 

Thou,  the  Word  and  Lord, 

In  all  time  and  space 
Heard,  beheld,  adored. 
With  all  ages  poured 
Forth  before  Thy  face. 

Lord,  what  worth  in  earth 

Drew  Thee  down  to  die  ? 
What  therein  was  worth 
Lord,  Thy  death  and  birth? 
What  beneath  Thy  sky  ? 


TORQUATO  TASSO, 

Italian  Poet.     (1544-1595.) 


EXTRACTS  FROM  "JERUSALEM  DELIVERED.'^ 

ERE,  Lord,  where  currents  from  Thy  wounded  side 

Stained  the  besprinkled  ground  with  sanguine  red, 
Should  not  these  two  quick  springs,  at  least,  their  tider 

In  bitter  memory  of  Thy  passion  shed  ? 
And  melt'st  thou  not,  ray  icy  heart,  where  bled 

Thy  dear  Redeemer  ?    Still  must  pity  sleep  ? 
My  flinty  bosom,  who  so  cold  and  dead  ? 

Break,  and  with  tears  the  hallow'd  region  steep ; 
If  that  thou  weep'st  not  now,  forever  shouldst  thou  weep ! 

Verse  8,  Canto  I  11^ 

Thee,  Father  !  Thee  they  sing,  coequal  Son  ! 

And  Thee,  blessed  Spirit !  in  whom  both  combine ; 
All-pitying,  saving,  all-consoling  One  ! 

Thee,  Virgin-Mother  of  the  man  Divine  ! 
And  ye,  who  o'er  the  bright-wing'd  hosts  that  shine 

Around,  in  triple  orbs  vicegerence  have. 
Princedoms !  your  succor  they  invoke ;  and  thine, 

Baptist  beloved !    that  in  the  less  pure  wave 
Pure  Mary's  sacred  Son  immaculate  didst  lave. 

Verse  7,  Canto  XH 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


44. 


Darkness,  the  world,  the  flesh,  spiritual  sin, 

With  such  infectious  stains  thy  soul  defile, 
No  earthly  spring  can  wash  thy  conscience  clean, 

The  streams  of  Ganges,  or  the  floods  of  Nile. 
The  secret  source  of  what  in  thee  is  vile 

Heaven's  grace  alone  can  fitly  purge  away ; 
Turn  to  thy  Saviour  then,  in  lowly  style 

Ask  for  forgiveness  ;  all  thy  sins  display  ; 
Cling  to  the  Cross  in  faith ;  weep,  tremble,  praise,  and  pray. 

Verse  8,  Canio  XVIII. 


NAHUM  TATE, 

Poet-Laureate  of  England.     (1652-1715.) 


SONG  OF  THE  ANGELS. 

HILE  shepherds  watched  their  flock  by  night, 
All  seated  on  the  ground. 
The  angel  of  the  Lord  came  down, 
And  glory  shone  around. 

"  Fear  not,"  said  He,  for  mighty  dread 
Had  seized  their  troubled  mind ; 

"  Glad  tidings  of  great  joy  I  bring 
To  you  and  all  mankind. 

*'  To  you,  in  David's  town  this  day 

Is  born  of  David's  line 
The  Saviour,  who  is  Christ,  the  I^ord, 

And  this  shall  be  the  sign  : 

**  The  heavenly  Babe  you  there  shall  find 

To  human  view  displayed. 
All  meanly  wrapped  in  swaddling-bands, 

And  in  a  manger  laid." 

This  spake  the  seraph,  and  forthwith 

Appeared  a  shining  throng 
Of  angels,  praising  God,  who  thus 

Addressed  their  joyful  song : 

"All  glory  be  to  God  on  high. 

And  to  the  earth  be  peace ; 
Good  will  henceforth  from  heaven  to  men 

Begin,  and  never  cease. 


4d1  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

ARTHUR  TAPPAN, 

Financier  and  Philanthropist.  (1786-1865.) 

'N  founding  the  '*  Richards  professorship  of  Christian 
Theology  "  at  Auburn  Theological  Seminary  he  took 
particular  care  against  any  theological  perversion  in 
this  conditional  clause:  "It  is  my  intention  and  de- 
sign in  granting  the  said  sum  that  the  interest  or  income 
of  said  capital  fund  shall  be  annually  applied  to  the  support 
of  a  professor  of  Christian  theology  holding  the  theological 
sentiments  and  faith  which  are  required  by  the  ordinances  of 
the  seminary  now  in  force ;  and  if  at  any  time  hereafter  any 
professor  on  this  foundation  shall  differ  from  the  said  system 
of  faith,  and  especially  if  such  professor  shall  not  fully  believe 
and  teach  the  true  and  proper  Divinity  of  the  Ivord  Jesus 
Christ,  the  personality  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  the  total  depravity 
of  man  in  his  natural  state,  and  the  eternal  punishment  of 
the  wicked,  then  the  founder  of  this  professorship  reserves  to 
himself,  his  heirs,  executors,  and  assigns,  the  right  to  re- 
claim and  receive  back  the  capital  fund  hereby  granted." — 
In  Addenda  of  ^^  Life  of  Arthur  Tappan^^^  by  his  brother^  Lewis 
Tappan. 

BAYARD  TAYLOR, 

Poet,  Diplomat,  Author,  and  Traveler.     (1825-1878.) 


JERUSALEM. 

HY  strength,  Jerusalem,  is  o'er, 
And  broken  are  thy  walls ; 
The  harp  of  Israel  sounds  no  more 

In  thy  deserted  halls. 
But  where  thy  kings  and  prophets  trod, 

Triumphant  over  death, 
Behold  the  living  Son  of  God, 

The  Christ  of  Nazareth  ! 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  445 

The  halo  of  His  presence  fills 

Thy  courts,  the  ways  of  men  ; 
His  footsteps  on  thy  holy  hills 

Are  beautiful  as  then. 
The  prayer,  whose  bloody  sweat  betrayed 

His  human  agony. 
Still  haunts  the  awful  olive  shade 

Of  old  Gethsemane. 

Woe  unto  thee,  Jerusalem  ! 

Slayer  of  prophets  ;  thou, 
That  in  thy  fury  stonest  them 

God  sent,  and  sends  thee  now. 
Where  Thou,  O  Christ,  with  anguish  spent, 

Forgav'st  Thy  foes  and  died ; 
Thy  garments  are  daily  rent, 

Thy  soul  is  crucified  ! 


ROGER  BROOKE  TANEY,* 

Chief-Justice  United  States  Supreme  Court,  1836-1864. 
(1777-1864.) 

TOMORROW  I  shall  be  eighty-five  years  o.d.     I  can 
not  suffer  it  to  close  without  expressing  gratitude  to 
the  Giver  of  every  good.    Whatever  may  come,  God's 
will  be  done!     I  must  meet  what  is  before  me  with 
the  faith  and  fortitude  of  a  Christian. 

■'•Justice  Daniel,  just  before  the  hour  of  going  to  the  Supreme  Court, 
opened  the  door  of  Chief-Justice  Taney,  and  found  him  on  his  knees  in 
prayer.  He  withdrew  much  mortified  that  he  had  forgotten  to  rap.  He 
quickly  made  an  apology  for  the  intrusion,  which  the  Chief-Justice  ac- 
cepted with  the  remark  that  it  was  his  custom,  before  he  began  the  duties 
of  the  dav,  to  seek  Divine  guidance. — '■'Memoir  of  Roi^cr  Brooke  Taney'^ 
by  Samuel  Tyler. 


BENJAMIN  FRANKLIN  TAYLOR. 

Poet  and  Author.     {1819-1887.) 

THE  GOSPEL  FOR  THE  POOR. 

^N  the  Roman  dungeon  dying. 

Waiting  there  his  day  of  doom. 

Faith  bewildered,  blinded,  dying, 

John,  the  Baptist,  lay  in  gloom. 


44^  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

Honored  he,  the  desert  preacher, 

Over  all  the  sons  of  God, 
He  had  laid  the  world's  great  Teacher 

Under  Jordan's  crystal  flood ; 

And  his  arms  the  form  had  lifted 

Back  to  life  and  light  again, 
That  should  bid  the  grave  be  rifted 

And  give  liberty  to  men. 

Grand  old  John,  in  heavy  sorrow, 

Sent  this  last  message  out : 
''Art  Thou  the  Christ  ? "    Then  dawning  morrow 
Banished  every  cloud  of  doubt. 

"  Go  tell  the  Baptist,"  quick  replying. 
This  the  Master's  answering  word: 

"Blind  men  see  the  midnight  flying, 
Lame  men  walk,  the  deaf  have  neard. 

"  Lepers  clean  as  lilies'  daughters. 
Graves  are  rent  and  dead  men  live. 

Gospel  free  as  flowing  waters 

Preached  to  them  with  naught  to  give." 

So  the  Saviour  crowned  the  story, 
Gave  the  poor  His  love  sublime, 

Grandest  proof  of  Gospel  glory. 
Boundless  blessing  for  all  time, 

Everywhere,  O  heavy-hearted. 

Be  ye  girded,  glad  and  strong! 
Dungeons  lighted  !  Doubt  departed  ! 
Pass  the  tidings  right  along. 


JAMES  M.  TAYLOR. 

Professor  of  Mathematics  in  Colgate  University. 

N  the  beginning  God  created  the  heaven  and  earth,"  is 
the    most   scientific   acconnt   of  creation   on   record. 
That  there  is  a  God  who  is  Creator  may  transcend  our 
power  of  comprehension;  but  that  there   is  no  God 
and  no  Creator  violates  our  highest  sense  of  reason,  as  well 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  447 

as  our  moral  and  religious  nature.  Our  rational  faculties  no 
more  require  our  acceptance  of  the  mathematical  axioms 
than  does  our  religious  nature  demand  the  belief  in  a  per- 
sonal God. 

"  In  the  beginning  was  the  Word,  and  the  Word  was  with 
God,  and  the  Word  was  God,"  is  as  essential  a  revelation  to 
our  moral  and  religious  nature  as  the  belief  in  a  Creator  is  a 
necessary  demand  of  our  intellectual  sense.  The  more  fully 
we  become  developed  and  well-rounded  men  the  more  earnest 
is  the  demand  of  our  higher  nature  for  the  truth  and  revela- 
tion of  the  Bible.  That  Christ  is  the  Light,  the  Truth,  the 
Revelation,  and  the  Saviour  to  the  world  is  the  testimony  of 
the  most  eminent  and  candid  thinkers. 


0\/Yyv(d  fh'  ^M^^' 


=/ 


ZACHARY  TAYLOR. 

Twelfth  President  of  the  United  States.     (1784-1850.) 

^A<^  BIBLE,  beautifully  bound  with  the  Constitution  of 
^A^^  the  United  States,  was  presented  to  him  by  some 
'  (c)^  ladies  of  Frankfort,  Kentucky,  February  14,  1849. 
He  acknowledged  their  kindness  in  this  language : 
"  I  accept  with  gratitude  and  pleasure  your  gift  of  this  inesti- 
mable Volume.  It  was  for  the  love  of  the  truths  of  this  great 
Book  that  our  fathers  abandoned  their  native  shores  for  the 
wilderness.  Animated  by  its  lofty  principles  they  toiled  and 
suffered  till  the  desert  blossomed  as  the  rose.  The  same 
truths  sustained  them  in  their  resolutions  to  become  a  free 
nation;  and  guided  by  the  wisdom  of  this  Book  they 
founded  a  government  under  which  we  have  grown  from 
three  millions  to  more  than  twenty  millions  of  people,  and 


448  A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

from  being  but  a  stock  on  the  borders  of  this  Continent  we 
have  spread  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific.  I  trust  that 
their  principles  of  liberty  may  extend,  if  without  bloodshed, 
from  the  northern  to  the  southern  extremities  of  the  Conti- 
nent. If  there  were  in  that  Book  nothing  but  its  great  pre- 
cept, ''All  things  whatsoever  ye  would  that  men  should  do 
unto  you,  do  ye  even  so  to  them,"  and  if  that  precept  were 
obeyed,  our  government  might  extend  over  the  whole  Conti- 
nent. Accept,  sir,  my  sincere  thanks  for  the  kind  manner  in 
which  you  have  discharged  this  duty ;  and  expressing  again 
my  hearty  gratitude  to  the  ladies  for  their  beautiful  gift,  I 
pray  that  health,  peace,  and  prosperity  may  long  be  contin- 
ued to  them." — Frankfort  Commonwealth^  February  21,  1849. 


SIR  RICHARD  TEMPLE, 

Member  of  Parliament. 

JyJ^^^^  after  all,  what  Book  at  this  moment,  even  in  this 
\Cc\_  busy,  struggling  land  of  England,  creates  so  much 
^  (0)^  interest  ?  You  all  remember  the  day  when  the  Re- 
vised Version  of  the  New  Testament  came  out. 
Was  any  Book  ever  sought  within  living  memory  with  such 
avidity?  Was  there  ever  any  Book  of  which  so  many  hun- 
dred thousands  of  copies  were  circulated  within  a  few  hours  ? 
No  writer,  no  publisher,  however  famous  or  celebrated,  could 
ever  obtain  for  an  uninspired  book  such  a  circulation  as  that 
which  was  obtained  without  the  slightest  effort  at  publica- 
tion, or  issuing,  in  one  day  by  the  Revised  Version  of  the 
Scriptures.  Now,  is  not  this  an  encouraging  thing — an 
encouragement  and  a  spring  eternal  of  hope  to  us  to  try  and 
spread  this  work  among  all  those  who  believe  and  those  who 
do  not  believe?  To  those  to  whom  it  has  not  yet  been  given 
to  believe  the  Book  it  will  constitute  the  most  romantic 
and  interesting  of  histories,  the  grandest  of  poetry,  the  most 
glowing  of  eloquence.  But  to  me  it  does  more.  It  gives 
us  the  one  hope  we  have  of  something  beyond  the  grave. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  449 

It  is  the  Book  which  awakens  in  us  the  thought  that  we 
were  not  made  to  die.  It  is  the  Book  that  makes  us  feel 
sure  that  we  are  not  to  perish  like  the  beasts  of  the  field,  or 
the  fowls  of  the  air,  or  the  trees  of  the  forest,  or  the  rocks  of 
the  mountain ;  but  that  we  are  to  have  a  blessed  immortality, 
if  truly,  as  was  said  by  one  of  our  latest  philosophers,  over 
each  of  our  graves  it  may  be  written,  ^^Obdormivit  in  Chris  to  " 
— "  He  fell  asleep  in  Christ." — From  the  Bible  Society 
Monthly  Reporter^  June  1889,  London. 


SIR  WILLIAM  TEMPLE, 

English  Statesman,  Diplomat,  and  Author.     (1628-1699.) 

f  ^^OSES  was  instructed  to  know  God  more  particularly, 
.  ML  ^^^  admitted  both  to  see  His  glory  and  to  learn  His 
C>^  name,  Jehovah,  and  to  institute  from   heaven   the 
whole  religion  of  the  Jews ;  so  the  prophets,  under 
the  Old  Testament,  were  taught  to  know  the  will  of  God, 
and  thereby  to   instruct   the  people  in  it,  and  enabled  to 
prophesy,  and  do  miracles,  for  a  testimony  of  their  being 
truly  sent  from  Heaven.     So  our  blessed  Saviour  came  into 
the  world  to  show  the  will  of  His  Father,  to  teach  His  pre- 
cepts and  commands,  and  so  His  Apostles   by   the    Holy 
Ghost,  for  the  same  ends. — Page  492,  Volume  II I ^  of  ^^The 
Works  of  Sir  William  Temple^  Barty 


SANBORN  TENNEY, 

Naturalist  and  Educator.    (1827-1877.) 

HIS  truth,  the  great  antiquity  of  the  earth,  so  plainly 
taught  in  nature's  own  records,  is  one  which  has 
caused  the  science  of  geology  to  be  looked  upon  with 
suspicion  by  those  who  believe  the  sacred  Scriptures 
limit  the  age  of  the  world  to  six  thousand  years.  And  this 
truth  is  often  assailed  as  though  it  were   the  peculiar  prop- 


450  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

erty  of  the  geologist,  while  it  is  a  truth  which  belongs  to  all 
mankind.  It  had  not  its  origin  with  man,  but  with  God.  It 
was  registered  in  enduring  characters  ere  man  was  created. 
And  I  will  not  attempt  to  say  whether  it  be  worse  to  deny 
the  truths  which  He  has  revealed  in  His  Word,  or  those 
which  he  has  revealed  in  His  works. 

If  such  be  the  testimony  of  the  rocks,  we  may  safely  aver 
that  it  is  not  contradicted  by  the  Bible ;  for  have  not  the  vol- 
ume of  Nature  and  the  volume  of  Inspiration  Jthe  same  great 
Author  ?  The  greatest  scholars  of  the  present  time  are  fully 
satisfied  that  the  Scriptures  do  not  fix  the  age  of  the  earth ; 
and  that  the  word  which  is  translated  "day"  does  not  always 
mean  a  period  of  twenty-four  hours,  nor  always  even  the 
same  amount  of  time,  as  may  be  readily  proved  by  referring 
to  the  different  places  where  it  is  used.  If  we  regard  the  six 
days  mentioned  in  Genesis  as  representing  successive  long 
periods  of  time,  the  apparent  difficulty  disappears,  and  the 
records  agree  in  all  their  essential  features. — From  his  Text- 
Boo  k  on  Geology^  1859. 


GEORGE   HENRY  THOMAS, 

Federal  Major-General.      (1816-1870.) 

B  was  a  firm  believer  in  the  Christian  religion,  and, 
especially  in  the  last  few  years  of  his  life,  felt  the 
obligation  and  the  paramount  importance  to  its  bib- 
lical precepts,  and  a  public  profession  of  his  faith, 
near  the  close  of  his  life,  was  only  prevented  by  the  arrange- 
ments which  had  crowded  upon  him  before  the  time  ap- 
pointed for  this  step.  .  .  .  He  once  said  that  he  did  not 
see  how  anyone  could  be  an  infidel,  and  then  discoursed  at 
length  on  the  profound  and  mysterious  doctrines  of  Christ. 
.  .  .  In  integrity  of  character,  in  purity  of  life,  in  firm- 
ness of  faith,  he  exemplified  in  his  daily  life  the  teachings 
of  the  Divine  Founder  of  Christianity.— /^<^^^i-  459  and  460, 
"  The  Life  of  Major-General  George  H.  Thomas^''  by  Thomas 
B.  Van  Home.  U.  S.  A. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  45 1 

ALFRED  TENNYSON, 

English  Poet-Laureate.     (1802-1892.) 


FROM  "  IN  GRIEF." 

TRONG  Son  of  God !  immortal  Love, 

Whom  we,  that  have  not  seen  Thy  face, 
By  faith,  and  faith  alone,  embrace, 
Believing  where  we  can  not  prove ! 

Thine  are  these  orbs  of  light  and  shade ; 

Thou  madest  life  in  man  and  brute  ; 

Thou  madest  Death  ;  and  lo,  Thy  foot 
Is  on  the  skull  which  thou  hast  made ! 

Thou  wilt  not  leave  us  in  the  dust ; 

Thou  madest  man,  he  knows  not  why  ; 

He  thinks  he  was  not  made  to  die  ; 
And  Thou  hast  made  Him  :  Thou  art  just. 

Thou  seemest  human  and  Divine, 
The  highest,  holiest  manhood.  Thou; 
Our  wills  are  ours,  we  know  not  how ; 

Our  wills  are  ours  to  make  them  Thine. 

I  hope  that  the  Bible  will  be  more  and  more  studied  by  all 
ranks  of  people  and  expounded  simply  by  the  teachers,  for 
the  religion  of  the  people  can  never  be  founded  on  mere 
moral  philosophy ;  it  must  come  home  to  them  in  the  plain, 
noble  thoughts  of  the  Holy  Scriptures. — Page  308,  Voluyne 
/,  ' '  Alfred  Lord  Tennyson^ ' '  a  Memoir  by  his  Son. 


452  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

God  is  now  with  us  as  we  two  are  walking  together  just  as 
truly  as  Christ  was  with  the  two  disciples  on  the  way  to  Em- 
maus;  we  can  not  see  Him;  but  He,  the  Father  and  the 
Saviour  and  the  Spirit,  is  nearer,  perhaps,  now  than  then  to 
those  who  are  not  afraid  to  believe  the  words  of  the  Apostles 
about  the  actual  and  real  presence  of  God  and  His  Christ  with 
all  who  yearn  for  it.  I  should  be  sorely  afraid  to  live  my  life 
without  God's  presence;  but  to  feel  that  He  is  by  my  side 
now,  just  as  much  as  you  are,  that  is  the  very  joy  of  my 
heart.  —  To  his  Niece ^  Miss  Agnes  Weld;  see  Contemporary 
Review^  November y  1897. 


CHARLES  ERNEST  TRITTON, 

Member  of  British  Parliament. 

ADHERE  to  the  grand  old  truths  of  the  Bible ;  my 
one  aim  has  always  been  to  tell  of  a  crucified  Christ, 
a  risen  Christ,  an  ascended  Christ,  a  Christ  receiving 
sinners,  a  Christ  for  the  battle  of  life,  and  a  Christ  for 
the  dying  bed. — See  Address  as  Chairman  of  the  Religious 
Tract  Society  Anniversary^  Exeter  Hall^  June^  1896. 


JAMES  TISSOT, 

French  Painter. 


AM  a  Christian  above  all  things,  a  worshiper  of  Jesus 
Christ,  who  lived  and  died  and  rose  again,  not  for  any 
sect,  but  for  all  believers,  for  all  those  who  look  to 
Him  as  the  Son  of  God  and  the  Son  of  Man. 


Nicholas  Heath,  Lord  High  Chancellor,  England 
(1501-1566):  To  preach  the  Gospel  or  administer  the  Loid's 
Supper  a  woman  may  not.  Our  Saviour  ascended  on  high, 
and  gave  the  whole  gov^ernment  of  His  church  to  men. — 
''''Lives  of  the  Lord  Chancellors  of  Englaiid,'^''  by  Campbell. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  453 

THE   UNITED  STATES  A  CHRISTIAN 
NATION. 

ITHOUT  dissent,  March  3, 1863,  the  United  States 
Senate  passed  this  resolution  :  ^^ Resolved^  That  de- 
voutly recognizing  the  supreme  authority  and  just 
government  of  Almighty  God  in  all  the  affairs  of 
men  and  nations,  and  sincerely  believing  that  no  people, 
however  great  in  numbers  and  resources,  or  however  strong 
in  the  justness  of  their  cause,  can  prosper  without  His 
favor,  and  at  the  same  time  deploring  the  national  offenses 
which  have  provoked  His  righteous  judgment,  yet  encour- 
aged in  this  day  of  trouble  by  the  assurance  of  His  Word,  to 
seek  Him  for  succor  according  to  His  appointed  way,  through 
Jesus  Christ,  the  Senate  of  the  United  States  do  hereby  re- 
quest the  President  of  the  United  States,  by  his  proclama- 
tion, to  designate  and  set  apart  a  day  for  national  prayer  and 
humiliation." —  Congressional  Globe ^  third  session  of  the 
Thirty -Seventh  Congress^  pages  1448  and  1501. 

In  accord  with  the  above  resolution.  President  Lincoln, 
March  30th,  issued  his  proclamation.  The  following  pas- 
sages are  quoted :  *'  Whereas^  It  is  the  duty  of  nations,  as 
well  as  of  men,  to  own  their  dependence  upon  the  overrul- 
ing power  of  God,  to  confess  their  sins  and  transgressions  in 
humble  sorrow,  yet  with  assured  hope  that  genuine  repent- 
ance will  lead  to  mercy  and  pardon,  and  to  recognize  the 
sublime  truth  announced  by  the  Holy  Scriptures,  and  proven 
by  all  history,  that  those  nations  only  are  blessed  whose  God 
is  the  Lord ;  and  inasmuch  as  we  know  that,  by  His  divine 
law,  nations,  like  individuals,  are  subjected  to  punishments 
and  chastisements  in  this  world,  may  we  not  justly  fear  that 
the  awful  calamity  of  civil  war,  which  now  desolates  the 
land,  may  be  but  a  punishment  inflicted  upon  us  for  our  pre- 
sumptuous sins  to  the  needful  end  of  our  national  reforma- 
tion as  a  whole  people.  .  .  .  Intoxicated  with  unbroken 
success,  we  have  become  too  self-sufficient  to  feel  the  neces- 


454 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 


sity   of  redeeming   and    preserving  grace,  too  proud  to  the 
God  that  made  us." 


WILLIAM  MAKEPEACE  THACKERAY,' 


English  Novelist.     (1811-1863.) 


pi!is:;;i:i;i!;Ki;;i;!;iiiiiiii 


they 


PRAY  Almighty  God 

that  the  words  I  write 

in  this  house  may  be 

pure  and  honest ;  that 

may    be    dictated    by 

no  personal  spite,  unworthy 

motive   or   unjust   greed  of 

gain;  that  they  may  tell  the 

{l  truth,  as  far  as   I  know  it, 

and    tend    to   promote   love 

and    peace  among  men   for 

the  sake  of  Christ,  our  Lord. 

— See    Ijitroductio7t    to    the' 

Biographical  Edition    of  his    writings^  by  Mrs.  Ritchie^  his 

daus[hter. 


TITIAN  (TIZIANO  VECELLIO), 

Qj^-.  Venitian  Painter  (1477-1576.) 

^  ^ROMISE  to  bury  me  in  the  church  where  I  achieved 

^  C    my  first  triumph— bury  me  there!     Promise  to  bury 

^  ^  me  there,  and  I  will  yet  live  to  paint  for  you  another 

"Christ,  a  Christ  of  Pity,"  that  shall  be  more  near 

to  what  He  is  than  any  that  has  yet  been  painted,  even  as 

I  am  by  so  many  years  the  nearer  to  seeing  Him  myself. — 

Written  when  99  years  of  age;  extract  frojn  Sir  Wyke  Bay- 

less^  Study  of  ^ '  The  Face  of  Christ. ' ' 

*'One  Sunday  evening  Thackeray  was  walking  with  two  friends  near 
Edinburgh.  It  was  a  lovely  night.  Corstorphine  Hill  lay  in  the  center  of 
this  pure  radiance.  A  wooden  crane,  used  in  the  quarry  below,  was  so 
placed  as  to  assume  the  figure  of  a  Cross.  All  these  gazed  at  it  silently. 
As  they  gazed  he  gave  tremulous  utterance  to  the  word, "  CALVARY  "  !  All 
that  evening  he  was  very  serious,  speaking  of  Divine  things — of  death, 
eternity  and  salvation — expressing  a  simple  faith  in  his  Saviour. — "■The 
Death  of  Thackeray'"'  from  "  Spare  Hours'''  by  Doctor  John  Brozun. 


CELEBRITIES  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES. 

CIVIL,  DIPLOMATIC,  AND  CONGRESSIONAL. 


Joseph  H.  Walker, 

Page  4y8. 

John  W.  Foster,  John  Hay, 

Page  1^4.  Page  24^. 

John  D.  Long, 

Page  2po. 


Nelson  Dingley. 

Page  /JO 

Thaddeus  C.  Clarkson. 

,  Page  86. 

Stewart  L.  Woodford, 

Page  5/^. 

Joseph  Wheeler, 

Pas^e  AOQ. 


OrTHc  \ 

UNIVERSITY    ■ 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


THE  DECLARATION  OF  EIGHT  HUNDRED 

SCIENTISTS  OF  GREAT 

BRITAIN.* 

E,  the  undersigned,  Students  of  the  Natural  Sci- 
ences, desire  to  express  our  sincere  regret  that 
researches  into  scientific  truth  are  perverted  by 
some  in  our  own  times  into  occasion  for  casting 
doubt  upon  the  truth  and  authenticity  of  the  Holy  Scrip- 
tures. We  conceive  that  it  is  impossible  for  the  Word  of  God, 
as  written  in  the  book  of  nature,  and  God's  Word  written  in 
Holy  Scripture,  to  contradict  one  another,  however  much 
they  may  appear  to  differ.  We  are  not  forgetful  that  Phys- 
ical Science  is  not  complete,  but  is  only  in  a  condition  of 
progress,  and  that  at  present  our  finite  reason  enables  us 
only  to  see  as  through  a  glass  darkly;  and  we  confidently 
believe  that  a  time  will  come  when  the  two  records  will  be 
seen  to  agree  in  every  particular.  We  can  not  but  deplore 
that  Natural  Science  should  be  looked  upon  with  suspicion 
by  many  who  do  not  make  a  study  of  it,  merely  on  account 
of  the  unadvised  manner  in  which  some  are  placing  it  in 
opposition  to  Holy  Writ.  We  believe  that  it  is  the  duty  of 
every  Scientific  Student  to  investigate  nature  simply  for  the 
purpose  of  elucidating  truth,  and  that  if  he  finds  that  some 
of  his  results  appear  to  be  in  contradiction  to  the  Written 
Word,  or  rather  to  his  own  interpretations  of  it,  which  may 
be  erroneous,  he  should  not  presumptuously  affirm  that  his 
own  conclusions  must  be  right,  and  the  Statements  of  Scrip- 

■^The  original  copy  of  this  interesting  document  is  now  in  the  Bodelian 
Library,  Oxford,  England— the  largest  library  in  the  world!  It  was  signed 
'by  eight  hundred  representative  scientists.  Doubtless  it  would  have 
been  gratifying  to  the  reader  to  know  the  names  of  the  remainder,  but  val- 
uable space  forbade  their  publication  here.  A  sufficient  number,  however, 
of  signatures  has  been  appended  to  reveal  the  general  character  and 
scholastic  standing  of  the  entire  body.  Honorary  degrees,  an  exception  to 
the  rule  of  the  book,  as  stated  on  page  i,  are  made  in  this  testimony.  I 
am  under  special  obligation  to  the  Bodelian  Librarian  for  transcribing 
this  important  declaration.  S.  A.  N. 


456  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

ture  wrong;  rather,  leave  the  two  side  by  side  till  it  shall 
please  God  to  allow  us  to  see  the  manner  in  which  they 
may  be  reconciled ;  and,  instead  of  insisting  upon  the  seem- 
ing differences  between  Science  and  the  Scriptures,  it  would 
be  as  well  to  rest  in  faith  upon  the  points  in  which  they 
agree. 
Thomas  Anderson,  M.  D.,  F.  K.  S.  E.,  etc..   Professor  of 

Chemistry  in  the  University  of  Glasgow. 
Richard  Austin,  M.  D.,  M.  R.  C.  S.,  late  Professor  of  Ma- 
teria-Medica  in  the  School  of  Medicine  of  the  Apoth- 
ecaries' Society,  Ireland. 
A.  B.  Becher,  R.  N.,  F.  R.  a.  S.,  F.  G.  S.,  First  Naval  As- 
sistant, Hydrog.  Office,  Admiralty. 
Thomas  Bell,  F.  R.  S.,  F.  G.  S.,  late  Pres.  L.  S.,  Acad.,  Soc. 
Hist.  Nat.  et  Philom.,  Paris.;   Acad.  Sc,  Philad. ;   Soc. 
Hist.  Nat.  Bost.  et  Lt.  et  Sc. ;  Hung.  Corresp. ;  Professor 
of  Zoology  in  King's  College,  London. 
William  Clark,  M.  D.,  F.  R.  S.,  F.  G.  S.,  Professor  of  Anat- 
omy in  the  University  of  Cambridge. 
Arthur  Scott  Donkin,  M.  D.  Edin.,  M.  D.  Dun.,  L.  R.  C. 
S.  E.,  Lecturer  on  Medical  Jurisprudence  in  the  Univer- 
sity of  Durham,  etc. 
Patrick  Eraser,  M.  D.,  L.  R.  C.  P.,  L.  R.  C.  S.  E.,  etc..  Sen- 
ior Professor  to  the  London  Hospital,  Physician  Extra- 
ordinary to  the  late  Queen  of  Portugal;  Staff  Physician 
in  the  Crimea,  and  in  the  War  of  Restoration  in  Por- 
tugal. 
John  C.  Hale,  F.  R.  A.  S.,  etc..  Surveyor  and  Superintend- 
ent of  the  Meteorological  Department,  Local  Govern- 
ment Office,  Whitehall. 
George  Johnson,   M.  D.,  F.  R.  C.   P.,  etc..  Professor   of 
Medicine  in  King's  College,  London,  Physician  to  King's 
College  Hospital,  etc. 
George  H.  B.  Macleod,  M.  D.,  F.  R.  C.  S.  E.,  F.  F.  P.  S. 
Glas.,   Mem.  Corn  de  la  Soc.  de  Chir.  de  Paris,  Mem. 
Paris  Med.  Society,  etc..  Lecturer  on  Surgery  in  Ander- 
son's University,   Glasgow,  late  Senior   Surgeon  Civil 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  457 

Hospital,  Smyrna,  and  General  Hospital  in  Camp  be- 
fore Sebastopol,  etc. 

John  B.  Melsom,  M.  A.,  M.  D.,  Cant,  F.  C.  P.  S.,  J.  P., 
Corr.  Mem.  Phil.  Soc.  Basle,  etc.,  late  Professor  of  Nat- 
ural and  Experimental  Philosophy  and  Clinical  Med- 
icine in  Queen's  College,  Birmingham. 

E.  Renerikr,  Memb.  de  la  Soc.  Vaud.  des  Sci.  Nat.,  Memb. 
de  la  Soc.  Helvet.  des  Sci.  Nat.,  Memb.  de  la  Soc. 
Geolog.  de  France,  Professor  of  Geology,  Mineralogy, 
and  Paleontology  in  the  Academy  of  Lausanne. 

Adam  Sedgwick,  M.  A.,  D.  C.  L.,  F.  R.  S.,  Hon.  M.  R.  I. 
A.,  F.  G.  S.,  F.  R.  A.  S.,  etc.,  Inst.  Imp.  Acad.  Sci. 
Paris  Correspondence,  Fellow  of  Trinity  College,  and 
Woodwarden  Professor  of  Geology  in  the  University  of 
Cambridge. 

John  Stenhouse,  LL.D.,  F.  R.  S.,  F.  C.  S.,  late  Professor 
of  Chemistry  at  St.  Bartholomew's  Hospital,  Assayer  to 
the  Royal  Mint. 

G.  J.  Symons,  Memb.  Counc.  Brit.  Met.  Soc,  Memb.  Scot. 
Met.  Soc,  Reporter  on  Rainfall  to  the  British  Associa- 
tion. 

John  Wilson,  M.  D.,  F.  R.  S.,  F.  L.  S.,  Inspector  General 
of  Hospitals,  Hon.  Physician  to  the  Queen. 

Sir  David  Brewster,  K.  H.,  LL.D.,  D.  CL.,  F.  R.  S.,  V. 
P.  R.  S.  E.,  Hon.  M.  R.  I.  A.  et  Phil.  Soc.  Cam.,  F.  G. 
S.,  F.  R.  A.  S.,  M.  A.,  M.  D.  (Jena),  Ord.  Boruss.  '^Pour 
le  Merite  "  Eq.,  Officer  of  the  Legion  of  Honor,  Inst., 
Imp.  Par.  (Acad.  Sci.)  Assoc,  Acadd.  Sci.  Imp.  et  Reg. 
Petrop.  Berol.  Brux.  Gotting.,  Hafn.  Soc  Harlem,  Holm. 
Ludg.  Gall.  Monach.,  Soc.  Im.,  Nat.  Mosq.  et  Inst.  Venet. 
Corr.,  Acad,  aut  Soc.  Erlang.  Flor.,  Traj. -Franc.  Rhen.- 
Traj.,  Soc.  Antiq.  Noom.  Soc.  Scand.  Nat.,  Inst.  Nat. 
Wash.  Lye,  Nat.  Hist.  Nov.-Ebor.,  Acad.  Sci.  Bost.  et 
Philad.,  Soc.  Antiq.  Amer.  et  Lit.  et  Hist.  Soc.  Quebec^ 
et  Cape  Town,  Soc.  Honor.,  Principal  and  Vice  Chan- 
cellor of  the  University  of  Edinburg. 


45^  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

CHARLES  THOMSON, 

Patriot,  and  Secretary  of  the  First  Continental  Congress,  1774-1789. 

(1729-1824.) 

^N   18 1 5  he  published  "A  Synopsis  of  the  Four  Evan- 
gelists, or  a  regular  history  of  the  Conception,  Birth, 
Doctrine,  Miracles,  Death,  Resurrection,  and  Ascension 
of  Jesus  Christ,  in  the  words  of  the  Evangelists."— /^<^^<? 
97,  Volume  VI ^  '"''Apple toil's  American  Cyclopcsdiay 

In  the  Preface  of  the  book  just  mentioned  he  wrote  :  "To 
undertake  a  new  harmony  of  the  Gospels,  after  the  many 
made,  might  seem  an  attempt  at  vanity,  did  not  the  more 
numerous  harmonies  in  the  last  two  centuries  show,  one  af- 
ter another,  that  those  which  preceded  had  not  given  satis- 
faction. How  I  have  suceeded  is  now  submitted  to  the  judg- 
ment of  the  candid  reader.  For  my  own  part,  I  have  the 
satisfaction  to  think  assuredly  that,  on  a  full  and  fair  exam- 
ination, it  will  be  found  that  the  Evangelists  are  neither  in- 
consistent, nor  do  they  contradict  one  another  ;  but  that,  on 
the  contrary,  they  mutually  elucidate,  support,  and  confirm 
one  another's  narration." 


JAMES  THOMSON, 

Scottish  Poet,     (i 700-1 748.) 

MY  refuge  and  consolation  is  in  philosophy  —  Christian 
philosophy — which  I  heartily  wish  you  may  yet  be  a 
^^<f^  disciple  of,  as  well  as  myself.  Indeed,  my  dear 
friend,  it  is  far  above  the  Platonic.  I  have  sent  you  a 
pamphlet  upon  a  subject  relative  to  it,  which  we  have  for- 
merly talked  of.  I  writ  it  last  year,  and  I  writ  it  with  a 
particular  view  to  your  satisfaction.  You  have,  therefore,  a 
double  right  to  it,  and  I  wish  to  God  it  might  appear  to  you 
as  convincing  as  it  does  to  me,  and  bring  you  to  add  the 
faith  to  the  heart  of  the  Christian. —  P/iilzmore^s  Memoirs 
and  Correspondence  of  George  Lytleton^  Volume  /,  page  307. 


A   CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES.  459 

LOUIS  ADOLPHE  THIERS, 

Late  President  of  the  French  Republic;  Historian.     (1797-1877.) 

^Av^  RELIGIOUS  belief  is  necessary ;  man  has  need  of  a 

^t^^     religious  belief;  such  a  religious  belief,  pure,  moral, 

<^  (c}^     antique,  existed.     It  is  the  old  religion  of  Christ. — 

Chapter  XI I ^   Volume  III ^  page  205,  ^^  Historie  du 

Consulate  este  V  Ernpire.^'^ 

I  often  invoke  that  God  in  whom  I  am  happy  to  believe, 
who  is  denied  by  fools  and  ignorant  people,  but  in  whom  the 
enlightened  man  finds  consolation  and  hope.  I  have  with 
conviction  defended  the  Christian  religion  as  insuring  the 
highest  degree  of  grandeur  for  France  and  liberty  in  its  high- 
est  sense,  and  believing  that  society  without  Christianity 
would  fall  into  frightful  chaos.  Materialism  is  at  once  stu- 
pidity and  danger.  For  myself,  I  am  a  passionate  believer 
in  religion,  and  if  I  were  possessed  of  more  time  and  strength 
I  would  like  to  confound  materialism  in  the  name  of  science 
and  good  sense. — From  a  Public  Address  delivered  near  the 
close  of  his  official  career. 

WILLIAM  M.  THORNTON, 

President  of  the  University  of  Virginia. 

FULLY  believe  in  the  Divinity  of  Christ,  and  the  In- 
spiration of  the  Bible.  My  hopes  for  the  spread  of  the 
spirit  of  Jesus  among  men,  for  the  establishment  of  the 
ideals  of  the  Bible  as  the  ideals  of  humanity,  are  based 
upon  other  grounds  than  the  sacerdotal  tradition  and  eccles- 
iastical dogmatism.  My  hope  is  that  when  a  sober  and  rever- 
ent criticism  has  stripped  from  the  doctrine  of  the  Bible  all 
that  is  transitory  and  non-essential,  and  revealed  this  doctrine 
in  its  intrinsic  power  and  Divine  spirit,  man  may  approach 
God  more  freely  by  the  roads  of  love  and  hberty,  purity  and 
peace.  I  believe  that  it  is  the  duty  of  all  men  to  strive  to 
make  this  approach  easier  for  themselves  and  others  by 
dwelhng  on  the  spirit  rather  than  on  the  letter,  and  by  an 
individual  revolt  against  every  form  of  sectarian  narrowness 
and  churchly  bigotry.      ^4^  J^  oM^^Uor^^ 


460  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

SIR  WILLIAM  THOMSON, 

(LORD  KELVIN.) 

Professor  of  Natural  Philosophy  in  the  University  of  Glasgow. 


9^ 


primary  reason  for 
accepting  the  invita- 
tion to  preside  was 
that  I  wished  to  show 
sympathy  with  this  great 
Society  which  has  been  es- 
tablished for  the  purpose  of 
defending  Christianity  as  a 
Divine  Revelation.  I  also 
thought  something  was  due 
from  Science.  I  have  long 
felt  that  there  was  a  general 
impression  in  the  non-scien- 
tific world  that  the  scientific 
world  believes  Science  has 
discovered  ways  of  explain- 
ing all  the  facts  of  nature  without  adopting  any  definite 
belief  in  a  Creator.  I  have  never  doubted  that  that  im- 
pression was  utterly  groundless.  It  seems  to  me  that  when 
a  scientific  man-  says — as  it  has  been  said  from  time  to 
time — that  there  is  no  God,  he  does  not  express  his  own 
ideas  clearly.  He  is,  perhaps,  struggling  with  difficulties ; 
but  when  he  says  that  he  does  not  believe  in  a  creative 
power  I  am  convinced  he  does  not  faithfully  express  what 
is  in  his  mind.  He  is  out  of  his  depth.  ...  I  may 
refer  to  that  old  but  never  uninteresting  subject  of  the  mir- 
acles of  geology.  Physical  Science  does  something  for  us 
here.  Peter  speaks  of  scoffers  who  said  that  "all  things 
continue  as  they  were  from  the  beginning,"  but  the  Apostle 
affirms  himself  that  "all  these  things  shall  be  dissolved." 
It  seems  to  me  that  even  physical  science  absolutely  dem- 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  461 

onstrates  the  scientific  truth  of  these  words.  We  feel  that 
there  is  no  possibility  of  things  going  on  forever  as  they 
have  done  for  the  last  six  thousand  years.  In  science,  as 
in  morals  and  politics,  there  is  absolutely  no  periodicity. — 
From  his  address  as  Chairman  of  ''  The  Christian  Evidence 
Society^''  London^  at  its  Nineteenth  Anniversary^  May  23, 
1889.  \ 


\^ 


JOHN  MELLEN  THURSTON, 

United  States  Senator. 


iVWYERS  are  the  students  of  Jurisprudence.  Juris- 
prudence  is  the   science  of   law.       Religion  is    the 

t^o  Jurisprudence  of  Divine  law.  The  Divine  law  of 
Christianity  is  based  upon  three  essential  beliefs: 
First,  the  existence  and  unity  of  God ;  second,  the  immor- 
tality of  man ;  third,  the  divinity  of  Jesus  Christ,  and  His 
atonement. 

The  divinity  of  Christ,  and  His  power  of  mediation  with 
the  Father  are  not  matters  of  exact  demonstration,  and  must 
be  accepted  by  the  human  soul  entirely  on  faith ;  but  the 
promise  is  so  great,  the  hope  is  so  sweet,  it  costs  so  little  to 
be  safe,  that  a  man  is  a  fool  indeed  if  he  hesitates  to  accept 
in  its  utmost  fullness  the  Divine  doctrine  of  love  as  taught 
by  the  lowly  Nazarene ;  and,  indeed,  when  we  are  once  con- 
vinced of  the  existence  of  a  God  and  our  own  immortality, 
the  mission  of  the  Saviour  seems  to  follow  so  naturally, 
seems  so  worthy  of  the  infinite  love  and  power  of  man's 
Creator,  that  our  belief  in  the  Father  extends  to  the  Son. 

Nearly  all  great  lawyers  accept,  almost  as  a  matter  of 
course,  the  truths  of  Christianity.  They  are  also  believers  in 
the  mediation  of  Jesus  Christ,  as  they  can  appreciate  in  all 
its  fullness  the  divinity  of  the  law  which  accepts  repentance 
and  belief  as  full  atonement  for  its  violation.  They  receive 
Christianity  without  question  because  of  the  comprehension 
and  simplicity  of  their  minds.  Quibbling,  uncertainty,  and 
hesitation  are  the  characteristics  of  inferior  intellects.  Moses, 


462  A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

the  law-giver,  is  only  second  to  Christ,  the  Saviour.  Who 
can  read  the  unparalleled  story  of  his  wonderful  life  without 
believing  that  he  was,  indeed,  anointed  of  God  ;  raised  up 
for  the  accomplishment  of  his  great  mission,  inspired  and 
directed  by  the  Divine  will.  An  eloquent  mimic  of  the  great 
skeptics  of"  past  generations  has  painted  a  beautiful  word 
picture  of  the  sweet  peace  and  eternal  rest  which  comes  to 
man  when  ''  death  ends  all."  But  it  is  only  a  picture  which 
fades  away  before  the  ghastly  horror  of  its  serious  contem- 
plation. If  it  were  given  me,  of  all  living  men,  to  know 
of  absolute  certainty  that  death  does  end  all,  I  would  tear 
my  tongue  out  by  the  roots,  and  go  down  to  the  grave  in 
silence  rather  than  reveal  to  a  Christian  world  a  secret  so 
damning  that  it  would  overturn  governments,  disorganize 
society,  destroy  morality,  brutalize  mankind,  and  make  life  a 
curse.  It  is  not  true ;  death  does  not  end  all.  The  great 
truths  of  the  Christian  religion  are  self-evident.  There  is  a 
God,  Creator,  Father,  vSaviour,  Judge.     Man  is  immortal. 


'( ,C^^^Cvuu-^'-^''M^ 


The  Earl  of  Cavan,  British  Philanthropist  (1887); 
The  Divine  Word  quickens  our  souls  and  gives  us  great  joy 
.  .  .  The  Lord  will  bless  those  who  are  instrumental  in 
bringing  all  peoples  to  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  who  is  a  prec- 
ious Saviour  to  every  one  who  believes  in  Him. — Declared  at 
Mildmay  Conference^  1882. 


The  Duke  of  Grafton,  British  General:  I  have 
passed  the  allotted  time  of  man — eighty  years — and  this  is, 
doubtless,  the  last  time  I  will  appear  in  public  to  advocate 
the  claims  of  the  Gospel  of  my  Lord  and  Redeemer.  —  On 
Taking  the  Chair  at  a  Bible  Meetings  Towcester^  1901. 


Alexander  Peckover,  Lord  Lieutenant  of  Cambridge- 
shire, Great  Britain :  The  sacred  Scriptures  are  the  guide 
and  comfort  of  my  life.  I  cling  to  the  Cross  of  my  Saviour, 
the  only  salvation.  The  blood  of  Jesus  Christ  cleanseth  from 
all  sin. —  To  the  Author. 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES.  463 

SIR  SAMUEL  LEONARD  TILLEY, 

Lieutenant-Governor  of  New  Brunswick. 

l_^  .OR  more  than  fifty  years,  I  have  been  a  subscriber  to 
^^  ^  A  one  of  the  auxiliaries  of  the  British  and  Foreign  Bible 
Society,  and  for  a  like  period  have  recognized  the 
^  all-sufficiency  of  the  great  atonement  made  by  our 
Lord  and  Saviour  on  the  Cross.  I  cheerfully  give  my  testi- 
mony to  the  value  and  inspiration  of  the  Book  of  books. 
Dark,  indeed,  would  be  this  world  without  Christ's  death 
and  resurrection,  and  the  hope  of  glory. 


T.  T.  TIMAYENIS, 

Gc.A  Greek  Historian. 

^UCH  was  Hellenism  in  the  East  at  and  after  the  in- 
carnate Christ  was  made  known.  As  Alexander  the 
Great,  three  centuries  and  a  half  before,  raising  the 
flag  of  Hellenism,  had  marched  from  Macedonia  to 
the  conquest  of  the  East,  so  the  Christian  religion,  assuming 
the  panoply  of  the  Hellenic  tongue,  argument,  and  admini- 
stration, sallied  forth  from  Palestine  for  the  subjugation  of 
the  West. 

The  truth  disclosed  by  our  Saviour  is  the  work  of  Divine 
Providence,  while  Hellenism  only  aided  the  work  by  Hel- 
lenizing  the  multitudes,  and  thus  preparing  them  for  the  ac- 
ceptance and  understanding  of  the  one  and  true  God.  .  .  . 
For,  indeed,  how  many  difficulties  and  obstacles  would  Chris- 
tianity have  encountered  without  the  assistance  of  Hellen- 
ism ?  The  Gospel  would  have  been  preached  in  the  Hebrew, 
and  not  only  was  that  tongue  unknown  beyond  Jordan,  but 
in  Syria,  Mesopotamia,  Egypt,  Asia  Minor,  Thrace,  and  Hel- 
ios various  dialects  and  tongues   prevailed  into  which  the 


464  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

Word  of  God  would  have  had  to  be  as  many  times  translated. 
Again,  the  Gospel  needed  not  merely  to  be  preached,  but 
also  to  be  explained ;  it  needed  a  language  able  to  develop 
its  lofty  truths — a  tongue  in  every  respect  complete,  fur- 
nished, and  philosophical.  Hellenism,  therefore,  not  only 
prepared  the  way  for  success,  but  it  also  furnished  to  the 
new  religion  the  most  artistic  of  linguistic  tongues  that  ever 
God  gave  to  man,  and,  through  its  alliance  with  Christianity, 
long  preserved  its  historic  claim  and  the  rank  which,  to  this 
day,  it  holds  in  the  East. — Pages  282  and  283,  256  and  257, 
Volume  Ily  ''^History  of  Greece ^^^  by  T.  T.  Timayenis. 


ALEXIS  CHARLES  HENRY  CLEREL 
TOCQUEVILLE, 

French  Statesman  and  Political  Writer.     (1805-1859.) 

Christianity  is  the  companion  of  liberty  in  all  its 
conflicts — the  cradle  of   its  infancy  and  the  Divine 
^-^\&  source  of  its  claims. 

Christianity  has,  therefore,  retained  a  strong  hold  on 
the  public  mind  in  America;  and  I  would  now  particularly 
remark  that  its  sway  is  not  only  that  of  philosophical  doc- 
trine which  has  been  adopted  upon  inquiry,  but  of  a  religion 
which  is  believed  without  discussion. 

Mohammed  professed  to  derive  from  Heaven,  and  he  has 
inserted  in  the  Koran,  not  only  a  body  of  religious  doctrines, 
but  political  maxims,  civil  and  criminal  laws,  and  theories  of 
science.  The  Gospel,  on  the  contrary,  only  speaks  of  the 
general  relations  of  men  to  God  and  to  each  other — beyond 
which  it  inculcates  and  imposes  no  point  of  faith.  This 
alone,  besides  a  thousand  other  reasons,  would  suflice  to 
prove  that  the  former  of  these  religions  will  never  predomi- 
nate in  a  cultured  and  democratic  age,  whilst  the  latter  is 
destined  to  retain  its  sway  at  these  and  all  other  periods. — 
Volume  III^  ''''Democracy  in  America?'' 


A    CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES.  465 

COUNT  LYOF  N.  TOLSTOI, 

Russian  Novelist. 

HAVE  always  been  possessed  of  the  religious  ideas  set 
forth  in  this  book.  For  thirty-five  years  of  my  life, 
in  the  proper  acceptation  of  the  word,  a  nihilist — not 
a  revolutionary  socialist,  but  a  man  who  believed 
nothing.  Five  years  ago,  faith  came  to  me ;  I  believed  the 
doctrine  of  Jesus,  and  my  whole  life  underwent  a  sudden 
transformation.  What  I  once  wished  for,  I  wished  for  no 
longer,  and  I  began  to  desire  what  I  never  desired  before. 
My  life  and  my  desires  were  completely  changed;  good  and 
evil  interchanged  meanings.  Why  so?  Because  I  under- 
stood the  doctrine  of  Jesus  in  a  different  way  from  that 
which  I  had  formerly  understood.  The  thief  on  the  cross 
believed  in  Christ,  and  was  saved.  Like  the  thief  on  the 
cross  I  believed  in  the  doctrine  of  Jesus,  and  that  belief  has 
made  me  whole.  ...  I  understood  nothing  of  this  life ; 
it  seemed  to  me  to  be  a  frightful  thing,  and  then — I  under- 
stood the  words  of  Jesus  Christ,  and  life  and  death  ceased  to 
be  evil;  instead  of  despair,  I  tasted  joy  and  happiness,  that 
death  could  not  take  away. — See  introduction  to  his  book^ 
^^My  Religion.^'' 


JOHN  GRAY  TOUCH, 

Lieutenant-General  of  England. 

,  ,0R  the  last  forty-seven  years  Jesus  Christ  has  been  to 
^  ^  ^  me  the  only  Saviour  in  whom  we  can  trust  for  our  sal- 
vation; His  righteousness  in  the  sinner's  absolute 
helplessness  is  all-sufhcient  under  the  Everlasting 
Covenant ;  His  love  and  faithfulness  the  sources  of  strength, 
comfort,  and  joy  in  every  difficulty  and  trial — "  all  my  salva- 
tion and  all  my  desire." 

The  Bible  is  the  word  of  God,  "a  lamp  unto  my  feet,  and 
a  light  unto  my  path,"  a  safe  counselor  and  a  sure  guide  un- 


466  .  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

der  all  circumstances  ;  meeting  every  want  of  the  soul  and  * 
every  emergency  of  life — the  only  standard  of  truth,  and  an 
authority  against  which  there  can  be  no  appeal.  I  can  bear 
testimony  to  the  infinite  value  of  Christ  and  the  Bible  in 
their  adaptability  to  the  most  enlightened,  as  well  as  de- 
graded races. 

FREDRICK  TOWNSEND, 

Brigadier-General. 

.HE  injunctions  and  instructions  of  a  devoted  mother, 
whose  text-book  was  the  Bible,  enjoined  and  im- 
parted "  in  season,  and  out  of  season  ;  here  a  little, 
and  there  a  little,"  as  she  used  to  say,  have  generally 
kept  me  walking  "in  the  fear  of  the  Lord"  ;  and  with  the 
light  of  the  open  Bible  have  brought  me  long  since  to  a 
daily  realization  of  "  the  truth  as  it  is  in  Jesus." 


^izx^L 


ANTHONY  TROLLOPE 

English  Novelist.     (1851-1882.) 

'N  his  delineation  of  "A  Low-Church  Chaplain"  in  "  Bar- 
chester  Towers,"  these  passages  occur:  "The  'dese- 
cration of  the  Sabbath,'  as  he  delights  to  call  it,  is  to 
him  meat  and  drink.  It  is  the  loved  subject  of  all  his 
evening  discourses,  the  source  of  all  his  eloquence,  the  secret 
of  all  his  power.  To  him  the  Revelation  of  God  appears 
only  in  that  one  law  given  for  Jewish  observance.  To  him 
the  mercy  of  our  Saviour  speaks  in  vain.  To  him  in  vaii> 
has  been  preached  that  sermon  which  fell  from  Divine  lips 
on  the  mountain :     '  Blessed  are  the  meek,  for  they  shall  in- 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  407 

herit  the  earth ' ;  '  Blessed  are  the  merciful,  for  they  shall 
obtain  mercy.'  To  him  the  New  Testament  is  compara- 
tively of  little  moment,  for  from  it  he  can  draw  no  fresh 
authority  for  that  dominion  which  he  loves  to  exercise  over 
at  least  a  seventh  part  of  man's  allotted  time  here  below." 


JONATHAN  TRUMBULL,* 

Colonial  Statesman;  Governor  of  Connecticut,  1769-1783. 

(1710-1785.) 

HE  Bible  was  more  than  ever  his  companion,  and  its 

grand  teachings  were  enhanced  to  him  by  reading 

them  in  Greek  and  Hebrew. — Page  106,   Volume  /, 

^^ National  Portrait  Gallery  of  Eminent  Americans^^^ 

by  Everet  Duychinck. 

Governor  Trumbull  sent  out  this  appeal  during  the  Revo- 
lution: "In  this  day  of  calamity,  to  trust  altogether  to  the 
justice  of  our  cause,  without  our  utmost  exertion,  would  be 
tempting  Providence.  .  .  .  March  on ! — this  shall  be  your 
warrant:  Play  the  man  for  God,  and  for  the  cities  of  our  God. 
May  the  Lord  of  Hosts,  the  God  of  the  armies  of  Israel,  be 
your  Captain,  your  Leader,  your  Conductor,  and  Saviour." — 
See  his  ''''Life^^  by  Isaac  IV.  Stuart. 


JOHN  RANDOLPH  TUCKER, 

Dean  of  Law  School  in  "Washington  and  Lee  University. 
(1823-1897.; 

AM  requested  to  give  my  personal  conviction  respect- 
ing Christ  and  the  Bible.  I  believe  this  inspired 
Book  contains  the  will  of  God  for  man's  salvation 
and  moral  development ;  and  that  Jesus  Christ  is  the 
Word  made  flesh — the  Incarnate  God — sent  into  the  world 
to  redeem  humanity  from  sin ;  "  that  whosoever  belie veth  in 

"*The  epithet  "  Brother  Jonathan,"  often  quoted  as  a  personification  of 
the  United  States,  originated  with  Washington,  who,  when  perplexed,  was 
wont  to  use  this  expression  :  "  Let  us  hear  what  Brother  Jonathan  says." 


468  A  CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

Him  should  not  perish,  but  have  everlasting  life ;"  "  neither 
is  there  salvation  in  any  other:  for  there  is  none  other  name 
given  among  men,  whereby  we  must  be  saved." 


MARTIN  FARQUHAR  TUPPER, 

English  Poet  and  Author. 


IN  PRAISE  OF  HIS  WORD. 

HE  Scriptures  have  a  might  and  magnificence  all  their  own  ! 
How  comforting  are  its  promises,  how  precious  its  precepts ! 
How  wise  and  kind  and  pure  and  good  its  influence  on  the  soul ! 
How  strong  its  hold  upon  the  heart,  its  power  within  the  mind 


A  HYMN  FOR  AI,L  NATIONS. 

Written  for  the  World's  Fair  of  1851,  and  translated  at  that  time 
into  thirty  languages. 

Glorious  God !  on  Thee  we  call, 
Father,  Friend,  and  Judge  of  all ; 
Holy  Saviour,  Heavenly  King, 
Homage  to  Thy  throne  we  bring ! 

In  the  wonders  all  around 
Ever  is  Thy  Spirit  found, 
And  of  each  good  thing  we  see 
All  the  good  is  born  of  Thee ! 

Thine  the  beauteous  skill  that  lurks 
Everywhere  in  nature's  works  ; 
Thine  is  art,  with  all  its  worth. 
Thine  each  masterpiece  on  earth ! 

Yea,  and  foremost  in  the  van 
Springs  from  Thee  the  mind  of  man ; 
On  its  light,  for  this  is  Thine, 
Shed  abroad  the  love  divine ! 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


469 


Lo,  our  God !     Thy  children  here 

From  all  realms  are  gathered  near ; 

Wisely  gathered,  gathering  still, 

For  '•  peace  on  earth,  towards  men  good- will !  " 

May  we,  with  fraternal  mind, 
Bless  our  brothers  of  mankind  ! 
May  we,  through  redeeming  love. 
Be  the  blest  abode  of  God  above ! 


.     JOHN  TYLER, 

Tenth  President  of  the  United  States.     (1790-1862,) 

HROUGH   the 

kindness  of  his 
son,  President  Ty- 
ler, of  the  College 
of  William  and  Mary,  and 
biographer,  this  informa- 
tion was  furnished:  "It 
was  comforting  to  know 
that  the  great  work  of 
eternity  had  not  been  neg- 
lected. His  gifted  mind 
held  fast,  as  a  foundation 
of  its  faith  and  hope,  to 
the  oracles  of  God.  He 
was  long  accustomed  to 
meditate  on  things  of  eter- 
nity.    And  when,   a    few 

years  ago,  he  was  prostrated  by  sickness,  and  the  idea  of  ap- 
proaching dissolution,  the  testimony  of  the  pastor,  whose 
services  he  was  so  fond  of  attending  in  that  church  he  had 
so  reverently  joined,  showed  the  brightness  of  the  Christian 
faith  in  which  he  died." 


470  A  CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

SHARON  TURNER, 

English  Historian.     (1768-1847.) 

^T  must  be,  therefore,  an  essential  principle  of  the  soul's 
vital  nature,  that  no  prolongation  of  its  conscious  exist- 
ence shall  anywhere  injure  it,  if  it  has  been  created  to 
be  a  resident  in  an  everlasting  kingdom.  But  on  this 
fact  of  its  future  eternity  the  whole  system  of  out  Divine  Rev- 
elation has  been  based.  We  die  here  to  rise  to  immortal  life 
from  the  death  we  undergo.  To  procure  and  insure  this 
blessing  to  us  our  Saviour  came  to  earth,  taught,  lived,  and 
suffered,  as  our  Christian  records  state ;  and  His  resurrection 
from  His  Judean  tomb  has  been  declared  to  be,  and  to  be 
meant  to  be,  the  pledge  and  representation,  and  assurance  of 
our  own.  .  .  .  The  sacred  history  of  the  world,  its  plan, 
the  Divine  purpose  in  human  life,  the  great  truth  and  pros- 
pect revealed  to  us  by  our  Saviour,  seem  to  be  founded  on  the 
two  great  principles  of  our  intellectual  nature — its  immortal- 
ity and  improvability. — P.age  250,  Volu7ne  II I ^  ''^  Turner^ s 
Sacred  History ^^  in  Family  Library  Series, 


ALEXANDER  ERASER  TYTLER, 

Scottish  Jurist  and  Historian.     (1747-1813.) 

THOROUGH  acquaintance  with  the  history  of  the 
world  and  the  state  of  mankind  at  the  time  of  our 
Saviour's  birth  has  led  the  wisest  and  most  enlight- 
ened inquirers  to  conclude  that  the  Almighty,  hav- 
ing designed  to  illuminate  the  world  by  Revelation,  there  was 
no  period  at  which  it  was  more  certainly  required  than  that 
in-  which  it  was  actually  sent ;  nor  could  any  occurrence  of 
circumstances  have  been  more  favorable  for  its  extensive  dis- 
semination than  that  which  took  place  at  the  time  of  our 
Saviour's  mission.  A  great  part  of  the  known  world  was 
at  this  time  under  the  dominion  of  the  Romans,  and  subject 
to  all  those  grievances  which  are  the  inevitable  result  of  a 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES.  All 

system  of  arbitrary  power.  Yet  this  circumstance  of  the 
union  of  so  many  nations  into  one  great  empire  was  of  con- 
siderable advantage  for  the  propagation  and  advancement  of 
Christianity.  .  .  .  About  the  middle  of  the  second  cen- 
tury we  find  the  books  of  the  New  Testament  had  been  col- 
lected under  one  volume,  and  were  received  as  a  canon  of 
faith  in  all  the  Christian  churches.  This  selection  of  the 
inspired  books  from  the  compositions  of  so  many  teachers  of 
Christianity,  who  had  written  in  imitation  of  their  styles  and 
had  recorded  the  acts  of  our  Saviour,  is  supposed  to  have 
been  made  by  some  of  the  early  Fathers  of  the  Church. — 
^^Tytler^s  Universal  History^^'' Book  V^  Chapter  IV, 


SIR  HENRY  VANE, 

English  Republican  Statesman,  and  Governor  of  Massachusetts. 
(1612-1662.) 

HEY  that  press  so  earnestly  to  carry  on  my  trial  do 
little  know  what  the  presence  of  God  may  be  afforded 
me  in  it,  and  issue  out  of  it  to  the  magnifying  of 
Christ  in  my  body,  by  life  or  by  death.  Nor  can 
they,  I  am  sure,  imagine  how  much  I  desire  to  be  dissolved 
and  be  with  Christ,  which  of  all  things  which  can  befall  me 
I  account  the  best. — ^^ Knight's  England^''  Volume  /F,  Chap- 
ter XV I ^  Page  260. 

As  the  present  storm  we  now  lie  under,  and  the  dark 
clouds  that  yet  hang  over  the  Reformed  Churches  of  Christ, 
which  are  coming  thicker  and  faster,  so  the  coming  of  Jesus 
Christ  in  these  clouds  in  order  to  a  speedy  and  sudden  re- 
vival of  His  cause,  and  spread  of  His  kingdom  over  the  face 
of  the  whole  earth,  is  most  clear  to  the  eye  of  faith,  even  the 
faith  in  which  I  die,  whereby  the  kingdoms  of  this  world 
shall  become  the  kingdoms  of  our  Lord  and  of  His  Christ, 
Amen!  Even  so  come,  Lord  Jesus! — Page  293,  ''''Library 
of  American  Biography^''  by  Jacob  Sparks, 


472 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 


JOHANN  LUDWIG  UHLAND, 

German  Lyric  Poet.     (1787-1862.) 


HEAVEN. 


FOR   THE   BEREAVED. 


^RIEND,  thou  must  trust  in  Him  who  trod  before 
The  desolate  paths  of  life  ; 
Must  bear  in  meekness  as  He  meekly  bore, 

Sorrow,  and  pain,  and  strife  ! 
Think  how  the  Son  of  God 
These  thorny  paths  has  trod ; 
Think  how  He  longed  to  go, 
Yet  tarried  out  for  thee  the  appointed  woe ; 
Think  of  His  weariness  in  places  dim, 
Where  no  man  comforted  or  cared  for  Him ! 
Think  of  the  blood-like  sweat 
With  which  His  brow  was  wet, 
Yet  how  He  prayed,  unaided  and  alone, 
In  that  great  agony,  "  Thy  will  be  done  !  " 
Friend,  do  not  thou  despair, 
Christ  from  heaven  of  heavens  w411  hear  thy  prayer. 


JOHN  HENRY  UPSHUR, 

Rear- Admiral  of  the  United  States  Navy. 

HILE  your  question  of  m)^  opinion  of  *'  Christ  and 
the  Bible"  may  seem  a  little  strange  when  put  to 
a  layman,  it  is  one  which,  I  think,  every  intelli- 
gent being  should  be  competent  and  willing  to 
give  an  answer  to,  however  brief.  I  have  never  had  a  doubt 
of  the  existence  and  Divinity  of  Jesus  Christ,  and  have  always 
believed  that  the  sacred  and  inspired  Scriptures,  especially 
those  treating  of  His  coming,  His  life  and  ministry  on  earth, 
with  its  plan  of  salvation,  and  lessons  of  human  as  well  as 
God-like  sufferings  and  death,  offer  a  compass  and  chart 
to  every  voyager  by  land  and  sea  who  is  not  faithless,  and 
thus  in  death  secure  to  him  a  safe  anchorage  in  eternity. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


473 


^'The 
Jesus 


MARTIN  VAN  BUREN, 

Eighth  President  of  the  United  States.     (1782-1862.) 

URING  his 

last  illness 

lie  made  this 

confession: 
atonement  of 
Christ  is  the 
only  remedy  and  rest 
for  my  soul." 

On  the  threshold 
of  his  official  relations 
as  President,  he  de- 
clared: "  I  only  look 
to  the  gracious  pro- 
tection of  that  Divine 
Being  whose  strength- 
ening support  I  hum- 
bly solicit,  and  whom 
I  fervently  pray  to 
look  down  upon  us  all.  May  it  be  among  the  dispensations 
of  His  Providence  to  bless  our  beloved  country  with  honors 
and  length  of  days ;  may  her  ways  be  ways  of  pleasantness, 
and  all  her  paths  peace." 


CORNELIUS  VANDERBILT, 

Financier  and  Philanthropist.     (1794-1877.) 

I  EAR  Doctor,  you  have  never  crowded  your  religion 
on  me,  but  you  have  been  faithful  to  me.  Say  to 
all  men  that  you  did  not  have  the  slightest  influ- 
ence in  the  world  in  persuading  me  to  believe  the 
that  you  could  not,  nor  all  the  angels,  nor  ministers, 
for  I  never  had  a  minute  when  I  did  not  believe  it  was  the 
Word  of  God. — Page  146,  '''' Pulpit  aiid  the  Grave,^^ 


Bible 


474  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

NICHOLAS  VANSITTART, 

(LORD  BEXLEY,) 

Member  of  Parliament.     (1766-1851.) 

)BT  it  not  be  forgotten  that  countries  both  within  and 
far  beyond  the  limits  of  Christendom  are  looking  to 
t^  British  Christians  to  furnish  them  with  the  rich  treas- 
ure of  God's  written  Word.  Let  it  be  known  that  our 
resources  are  not  adequate  to  meet  the  exigencies  of  the 
times,  and  that  its  income  does  not  keep  pace  with  its  in- 
creasing expenditures.  Let  it  be  remembered  how  deeply 
Britain  is  indebted,  under  God,  to  the  Bible,  for  its  many 
social,  political,  and  religious  advantages.  Let  these  things 
be  bourne  in  mind,  as  furnishing  this  moment  a  call  in  Prov- 
idence distinct  and  imperative  ;  a  call  to  individual  and  com- 
bined exertion  not  unaccompanied  with  prayer ;  and  let  our 
efforts  never  cease  until  the  Bible  is  everywhere  exalted  to 
its,  true  position,  and  the  teachings  of  fallible  men  univer- 
sally give  place  to  the  "true  sayings  of  God." — Bible  Society 
Reporter^  December^  1891. 


HENRY  VAUGHAN, 

English  Poet.     (1621-1695.) 


PEACE. 

Y  soul,  there  is  a  Countrie 
±\VJ.       Far  beyond  the  stars, 
*Jj<^  Where  stands  a  winged  centrie 
All  skillful  in  the  wars. 
There  above  noise  and  danger 

Sweet  peace  is  crowned  with  smiles, 
And  ONE  born  in  a  manger 

Commands  the  beauteous  files. 
He  is  thy  gracious  Friend,         • 

And  (O  my  soul,  awake !) 
Did  in  pure  love  descend 
To  die  here  for  thy  sake. 


A   CIvOUD    OF    WITNESSES.  475 

SIR  AUBREY  DE  VERE, 

Irish  Poet.     (1788-1846.) 


M 


^ 


THE  PASSION  FI.OWER. 

RT  Thou  a  type  of  beauty,  or  of  power, 
Of  sweet  enjoyment,  or  disastrous  sin  ? 
For  each  thy  name  denoteth,  Passion  Flower ! 

O  no !  thy  pure  corolla's  depth  within 
We  trace  a  holier  symbol ;  yea,  a  sign 

'Twixt  God  and  man  ;  a  record  of  that  hour 
When  the  expiatory  act  divine 

Canceled  that  curse  which  was  our  mortal  dower. 
It  is  the  Cross. 


SACRED  AND  PROFANE  WRITERS. 

Let  those  who  will,  hang  rapturously  o'er 

The  flowing  eloquence  of  Plato's  page ; 
Repeat,  with  flashing  eye,  the  sounds  that  pour 

From  Homer's  verse  as  with  torrent's  rage ; 
Let  those  who  list,  ask  TuUy  to  assuage 

Wild  hearts  with  high- wrought  periods,  and  restore 
The  reign  of  rhetoric ;  or  maxims  sage 

Winnow  from  Seneca's  sententious  lore. 


Wu-Tung~Fang,  Envoy  Extraordinary  and  Minister 
Plenipotentiary  from  China  to  the  United  States :  It  must 
not  be  supposed  that  there  is  any  intention  on  my  part  to 
belittle  the  doctrines  of  Christ,  for,  so  far  as  I  know,  I  be- 
lieve Christianity  is  the  highest  form  of  religion  that  has 
ever  been  founded  in  the  world. — See  his  Lecture^  ''^The 
Teachings  of  Confucius. '  * 


Perre  Paul  Royer-Collard,  fifteenth  President, 
Chamber  of  Deputies  (1763-1845):  Jesus  Christ,  the  Di- 
vine Majesty,  is  the  holy  of  holies;  God  and  man  together, 
and  present  in  the  most  sacred  of  our  mysteries. — From  his 
Oration^  ' '  Sacrilege  in  Law. ' ' 


476  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

Not  these,  but  Judah's  hallowed  bard,  to  me 
Are  dear ;  Isaiah's  noble  energy ; 

The  temperate  grief  of  Job ;  the  artless  strain 
Of  Ruth  and  pastoral  Amos,  the  high  songs 
Of  David,  and  the  tale  of  Joseph's  wrongs, 

Simply  pathetic,  eloquently  plain. 


THOMAS  DE  VERE, 

Irish  Poet  and  Miscellaneous  Writer. 


jGyTv?^  the  moon  its  splendor  borrows 
Xl^V  From  a  sun  unseen  all  night, 
^^  So  from  Christ,  the  Sun  of  Justice, 

Draws  His  Church  her  sacred  light. 
Touched  by  His,  her  hands  have  healing, 

Bread  of  Life,  absolving  key  ; 
Christ  incarnate  is  her  bridegroom — 
The  spirit  hers.  His  temple  she. 


ZEBULON  BAIRD  VANCE, 

Governor;  Congressman;  United  States  Senator,  1879  till  death. 
(1830-1894.) 

E  have  seen  educated  and  respectable  men,  descen- 
dants of  those  from  whom  we  derive  our  civiliza- 
tion, kinsmen  after  the  flesh  of  Him  whom  we 
esteem  as  the  Son  of  God  and  Saviour  of  men, 
ignominiously  ejected  from  hotels  and  watering-places  .  .  . 
May  the  real  spirit  of  Christ  be  triumphantly  infused  world- 
wide.— From  his  Lecture^  '-^The  Scattered  Nation,^ ^ 


FRANCIS  P.  VENABLE, 

President  of  the  University  of  North  Carolina. 

AM  glad  to  assert  my  belief  in  Christ  and  the  Scrip- 
tures. I  can  see  but  one  solution  to  the  great  mystery 
of  this  tangled  life  of  ours,  and  that  is  given  in  the  life 
of  our  Saviour.  He  alone  is  the  life  and  light  of  the 
world.  Otherwise  life  has  no  meaning.  I  can  but  re-echo 
the  word  of  Peter:  *'To  whom  shall  we  go?  Thou  hast  the 
words  of  eternal  life!"  "OTN   /*» 


O 

O 


o 

o 

CO 

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A    CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  477 

SIR  EDMUND  VERNEY, 

Late  Member  of  Parliament  and  Royal  Navy.     Author. 

.HIRTY  years  of  my  life  were  spent  in  the  Royal 
Navy ;  the  indirect  teaching  of  this  profession  is  that 
the  only  workable  rule  of  life  is  duty — service  for 
others.  Seamen  are  generally  ready  to  adapt  this  same 
sense  of  duty  to  their  Christian  profession,  which  is  most 
genuine;  the  sincere  Christianity  of  our  sailors  as  a  body 
constitutes  the  strength  of  that  profession. 

For  nearly  twenty  years  I  was  in  public  and  political  life; 
it  was  rare  to  find  a  leader  of  men  of  any  party  who  was  not 
a  simple  believer  in  the  divinity  of  Jesus  Christ.  As  to  the 
Divine  Book,  it  is  only  necessary  to  study  it ;  the  more  you 
read,  the  more  you  want  to  read.  I  never  heard  of  anyone 
who  failed  to  find  in  it  practical  principles  for  guidance  in 
every-day  life,  comfort  in  sorrow,  encouragement  in  bitter 
humiliation,  correction  in  error,  and  bright  hope  for  this  life 
and  the  life  to  come. 


^Oi/rrturrLoUJ&rrz^ 


LEONARDO  DA  VINCI, 

Florentine  Painter.     (i45?-i5J9.) 

STILL  want  two  heads,  one  of  which,  the  Saviour,  I 
could  not  hope  to  find  on  earth,  and  have  not  yet  at- 
tained the  power  to  imagine,  with  all  the  spiritual 
grace  demanded  for  the  representation  of  Deity  incar- 
nate. The  other  is  that  of  Judas,  who  betrayed  his  Lord  and 
Creator. — Page  386,  Volume  11^  ''''Lives  of  Eminent  Painter Sy 
Sculptors  and  Architects^ ' '  by  Giorgia  Vasari. 


PETER  DUMONT  VROOM, 

Lawyer  and  Diplomat.     (1791-1873.) 

F  we  would  do  our  work  effectually  we  must  follow 
them  with  the  Bible.  They  can  not  go  without  carry- 
ing sin  with  them.  The  spirit  of  enterprise  is  pushing 
its  way  to  the  far  West;    now  striking  into  tl^e  dark 


478  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

bosom  of  the  forest,  and  now  pursuing  its  course  along  the 
margin  of  some  stream,  in  either  case  far  removed  from  the 
influence  of  religion  and  the  Bible.  Can  we,  who  know  the 
value  of  Gospel  truth,  who  have  partaken  of  its  blessings,  and 
are  constantly  refreshed  by  the  rich  streams  that  flow  forever 
from  this  spiritual  fountain — can  we  be  insensible  to  their 
wants?  ...  In  thus  approaching  them,  our  adopted 
brethren  may  rest  satisfied  that  our  motives  are  pure  ;  we 
meet  them  on  the  broad  and  catholic  basis  of  the  Bible  with- 
out note  or  comment.  We  believe  it  to  be  the  best  hope  of 
the  country  in  which  we  have  now  a  common  interest ;  and, 
what  is  of  infinitely  more  importance,  we  believe  it  to  be 
***the  power  of  God,  and  the  wisdom  of  God  unto  the  salva- 
tion of  their  souls."— ^"  Testimony  to  the  Value  of  the  Scrip- 
tures ^^^  by  the  American  Bible  Society. 


MORRISON  REMICK  WAITE, 

Chief-Justice  of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court,  1874-1888. 
(1816-1888.) 


m 


MEMBER  of  the  family,  by  personal  request,  certi- 
fo\;  fies  to  the  following:  "The  late  Chief- Justice 
tc^  (q)j  Waite  lived  his  Christianity ;  did  not  talk  it  merely. 
He  believed  in  the  inspiration  of  the  Holy  Scrips 
ture  as  it  appeared,  but  was  too  busy  to  study  up  all  the 
modern  questions  agitating  the  churches.  He  accept<^d  the 
faith  as  it  was  taught  in  our  denomination,  and  was,  th^r^' 
fore,  a  believer  in  the  divinity  of  Jesus  Christ." 


JOSEPH   H.  WALKER, 

Congressman. 

.HE  Bible  says  Christ  is  "  the  Truth."     I  sincerely  be 
lieve  it,  and  that  there  is  no  truth  outside  of  Him. 
The  Bible  is  what  it  purports  to  be,  "The  Word  of 
God,"  whether  by  verbal  inspiration,  plenary  inspira- 
tion, or  by  truth  impressing  itself  overpoweringly  on  the 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 


479 


mind  of  godly  men.      Real  happiness  and  prosperity  are 
only  in  obedience  to  Jesus  Christ,  in  essence  in  all  the  life. 


^U^ 


RICHARD  WAGNER, 

German  Musical  Composer.     (1813-1883.) 

OD  Himself 
was  left  to 
the  philos- 
ophers to 
define,  and  proved 
a  conception  which 
the  Hellenic  mind 
sought  in  vain  dis- 
tinctly to  establish, 
until,  by  a  band  of 
wonderfully  in- 
spired people,  the 
incredible  tidings 
were  proclaimed 
that  the  Son  of  God 
had  offered  Him- 
self upon  the  Cross 
as  a  sacrifice  for  the 
redemption  of  the 
world  from  the 
bonds  of  deceit  and  sin.  With  this,  God  Himself  assumed 
shape  as  in  that  most  anthrophormorphic  manner,  viz.:  the 
highest  conception  of  sympathetic  love — a  human  fonn 
stretched  in  agonizing  suffering  upon  the  Cross. —  Wagner^ 
1880,  page  272. 


2fio  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

SIR  EVELYN  WOOD, 

Adjutant-General  of  the  British  Army. 

^HY  Word  is  a  lamp  unto  my  feet  and  a  light  unto  my 
path."     '*I  said  unto  the  Lord,  Thou  art  my  God; 
hear  the  voice  of  my  supplication,  0  Lord.     O  Lord 
God,  Thou  strength  of  my  health,  Thou  hast  covered 
my  head  in  the  day  of  battle. " 

'*  O  Christ,  Whose  voice  the  waters  heard 
And  hushed  their  raging  at  Thy  word, 
Who  walkest  on  the  foaming  deep, 
And  calm  amid  the  storm  didst  sleep; 

O  hear  us  when  we  cry  to  Thee 

For  those  in  peril  on  the  sea." 


JOHN  LORIMER  Vv^ORDEN, 

Rear- Admiral. 

'T  would  be  a  pleasure  to  write  fully  regarding  my  faith 
in  Christ  and  the  Bible,  but  my  head  is  in  such  a  con- 
dition of  debility*  that  I  am  unable  to  express  myself 
intelligently   upon   any   theme;    however,  I  find  my 
jreligious  feelings  voiced  by  the  Christian  poet  thus: 

"  Jesus,  Saviour,  pilot  me. 
Over  life's  tempestuous  sea ; 
Unknown  waves  before  me  roll. 
Hiding  rock  and  treacherous  shoal; 
Chart  and  compass  come  from  Thee; 
Jesus,  Saviour,  pilot  me." 


*  In  the  naval  duel  between  the  Monitor  and  the  Merrimac  at  Hamp- 
ton Roads,  March  9,  1862,  the  Rear-Admiral  was  severely  wounded  in  the 
eyes,  rendering  him  almost  blind. — S.  A.  N. 


A   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES.  481 

DUKE  OF  WESTMINSTER, 

British  Philanthropist. 

E  are  engaged  in  a  noble  and  very  holy  work  in 
endeavoring  to  bring  the  Gospel  of  Christ  our 
Saviour  before  our  sailors.  The  use  of  the  Divine 
Scriptures  must,  of  course,  by  the  teachings  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  tend  to  their  highest  good  and  their  eternal  wel- 
fare. There  is  a  great  need  for  special  prayer  on  their  behalf, 
and  the  following  linens  will  be  found  not  only  appropriate 
for  ourselves,  but  especially  for  men  at  sea : 

"  Oh !   Thou  that  in  the  hollow  of  Thy  hand, 

Holdest  the  vast  ocean's  waters, 

Thou  whose  voice  the  raging  winds  and  stormy  seas  obey, 

As  down  the  tide  of  life  we  hold  our  course. 

Oh !   may  Thy  Grace  our  guiding  Pilot  prove, 

Thy  will  our  leading  Star. 

Oh  I    be  Thou  our  Guide  till,  all  the  ills  of  life  securely  past, 

We  anchor  in  the  haven  of  Thy  rest." 


SIR  FRANCIS  WALSINGHAM, 

English  Statesman.     (1536-1590.) 

O,  I  am  not  melancholy,  but  I  am  serious ;  and  it  is 
very  proper  that  we  should  be  so  !  Ah,  my  friends, 
while  we  laugh,  everything  is  serious  about  us. 
God  is  serious,  who  exerciseth  patience  towards  us ; 
Christ  is  serious,  who  shed  His  atoning  blood  for  us ;  the 
Holy  Ghost  is  serious,  who  striveth  against  the  obstinacy  of 
our  hearts;  the  Holy  Scriptures  are  serious  books;  they  pre- 
sent to  our  thoughts  the  most  serious  concerns  in  all  the 
world ;  the  holy  sacraments  represent  very  serious  and  awful 
matters ;  the  whole  creation  is  serious  in  serving  God  and 
us  ;  all  in  heaven  are  serious  ;  all  who  are  in  hell  are  serious. 
How  then  can  we  be  gay  and  trifling? — Page  649,  ''''Alii- 
bone's  Prose  Quotations!''' 


482 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 


JOHN  WANAMAKER, 

Postmaster-General  under  President  Harrison; 
Philanthropist. 

HATEVER  skeptics  may  say, 
there  is  power  in  the  religion 
of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  It 
is  my  profound  conviction  that 
the  Gospel  is  to  win  the  heart  and  con- 
vert the  world.  The  procession  is  being 
made  longer  and  longer,  and  the  let- 
ters of  CHRIST'S  name  are  becoming 
larger  and  larger. — Extract  from  his  Address  at  the  Eighth 
Annual  Conference  of  the  Young  People'' s  Society  of  Christian 
Endeavor^  Philadelphia^  July  ^-w^  1889. 


IZAAK  WALTON, 

English  Writer.      ( 1593  ?-i683.) 

^ONTENT  will  never  dwell  but  in  a  meek  and  quiet 
\^  soul.  And  this  may  appear  if  we  read  and  consider 
what  our  Saviour  says  in  Matthew's  Gospel :  ''  Blessed 
be  the  merciful,  for  they  shall  obtain  mercy.  Blessed 
be  the  pure  in  heart,  for  they  shall  see  God.  Blessed  be  the 
poor  in  spirit,  for  theirs  is  the  kingdom  of  heaven,  and  blessed 
be  the  meek,  for  they  shall  possess  the  earth." 

But  what  pleasure  it  is  to  the  devout  Christian  to  see  there 
the  humble  house  in  which  Paul  was  content  to  dwell,  and 
to  view  the  many  rich  statues  that  are  made  in  honor  of  his 
memory ;  nay,  to  see  the  very  place  in  which  Peter  and  he 
lie  buried  together.  These  are  in  or  near  Rome.  And  how 
much  more  does  it  please  the  pious  curiosity  of  a  Christian 
to  see  the  place  in  which  the  blessed  Saviour  of  the  world 
was  pleased  to  humble  Himself,  and  to  take  our  nature  upon 
Him. 

In  the  name  of  God,  amen.     I,  Izaak  Walton,  the  elder^ 


A  CLOUD  OF  WITNESSES.  483 

of  Winchester,  being  this  present  day  in  the  ninetieth  year 
of  my  age,  and  in  perfect  memory,  for  which  praised  be 
God ;  but  considering  how  suddenly  I  may  be  deprived  of 
both,  do  therefore  make  my  last  will  and  testament  as  fol- 
lows :  First,  I  do  declare  my  belief  to  be  that  there  is  only 
one  God,  who  hath  made  the  whole  world,  and  me,  and  all 
mankind  ;  to  whom  I  shall  give  an  account  of  all  my  actions, 
which  are  not  to  be  justified,  but  I  hope  to  be  pardoned 
through  the  merits  of  my  Saviour,  Jesus. — Extracts  from 
''^The  Complete  Angler ^^^  by  Izaak  Walton. 


REUBEN  HYDE  WALWORTH, 

Lawyer,  and  the  Last  of  the  Chancellors  of  New-York. 
( 1788-1867.) 

^O  those  who  have  carefully  observed  or  considered 
the  progress  of  civil  and  religious  freedom,  at  differ- 
ent times  and  in  various  countries,  it  can  hardly  be 
necessary  to  say,  it  has  always  been  the  most  rapid, 
as  well  as  the  most  healthy,  where  the  Bible  was  most  widely 
disseminated  ;  and  where  the  sacred  truths  contained  therein 
were  brought  home  to  the  greatest  number  of  people.  In- 
deed, there  is  no  nation,  though  nominally  civilized  and 
Christianized,  which  has  made  any  great  advancement  in  the 
amelioration  and  improvement  of  the  social  condition  of  the 
masses  except  those  where  the  Sacred  Scriptures  were  in 
the  hands  of,  and  studied  by,  the  people  generally.  .  .  . 
The  statesman,  the  scholar,  and  even  the  politician,  as  well 
as  the  philanthropist  and  the  Christian,  by  a  careful  and  dili- 
gent study  of  the  Scriptures  will  find  himself  a  much  wiser, 
if  not  a  much  better  man,  and  will  also  be  able  to  discharge 
his  social  and  political  duties ;  or  to  pursue  the  rugged  paths 
of  science  with  more  credit  to  himself  and  more  benefit  to 
his  country  and  his  kind  than  if  he  had  confined  his  investi- 
gations to  mere  worldly  wisdom.  .  .  .  And  we  can  not 
be  sufficiently  thankful  to   Him    for   having  revealed  Hir 


484  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

existence  to  us,  and  disclosed  to  us  something  of  His  attri- 
butes ;  especially  that  attribute  of  mercy  which  sent  our 
Divine  Redeemer  upon  His  mission  of  love  to  the  apostate 
race  of  man. — From  a  Letter  to  the  American  Bible  Society y 
dated  Saratoga  Springs^  December  17,  1853. 


GEORGE  WASHINGTON, 

First  President  of  the  United  States.     (  1732-1799.) 

.ND  now,  Almighty 
Father,  if  it  is  Thy 
holy  will  that  we 
shall  obtain  a  place 
and  name  among  the  na- 
tions of  the  earth,  grant 
that  we  may  be  enabled  to 
show  our  gratitude  for  Thy 
goodness  by  our  endeavors- 
to  fear  and  obey  Thee, 
Bless  us  with  Thy  wisdom 
in  our  counsels,  success  in 
battle,  and  let  all  our  victo- 
ries be  temperedwith 
humanity.  Endow,  also,  our  enemies  with  enlightened 
minds,  that  they  become  sensible  of  their  injustice,  and 
wilhng  to  restore  our  liberty  and  peace.  Grant  the  petition 
of  Thy  servant,  for  the  sake  of  Him  whom  Thou  hast  called 
Thy  beloved  Son;  nevertheless,  not  my  will,  but  Thine  be 
done. — ''^ Mc Quire^ s  Religious  Opinions  and  Character  of 
Washington!'^ 

A  small  memorandum  book,  written  by  George  Washing- 
ton, and  containing  only  his  prayers  for  Sunday,  Monday, 
Tuesday,  Wednesday,  and  Thursday  mornings,  and  for  Sun- 
day, Monday,  Tuesday,  and  Wednesday  evenings,  under  the 
general  head  of  "The  Daily  Sacrifice,"  is  the  private  prop- 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  4^5 

^rty  of  William  Bvarts  Benjamin,  of  New  York.  The  man- 
uscript is  very  neatly  and  legibly  written.  The  following 
pages  show  an  exact  facsimile  copy  of  the  first  of  these  pray- 
ers : 

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A  C^OTjT)    OF  WITNESSES.  467 

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WASHINGTON    IN    PRAYER   AT   VAI.LEY   FORGE.* 

One  day  a  Quaker  was  strolling  along  in  a  secluded  spot 
"when  he  heard  the  solemn  voice  of  some  one  engaged  in 
prayer.  Stealing  quietly  forward,  he  saw  Washington's  horse 
tied  to  a  sappling,  and  a  little  farther  on,  in  a  thicket,  the 
chief  himself,  on  his  knees,  beseeching  Heaven  for  his  coun- 
try and  his  army.  Before  God  alone  that  strong  heart  gave 
way  and  poured  forth  the  full  tide  of  its  grief  and  anxieties. 
How  sublimely  does  he  appear,  and  how  good  and  holy  the 
cause  he  was  engaged  in  seems  as  he  thus  carried  it  to  the 
throne  of  a  just  God  for  His  sanction.  The  man  who  had 
witnessed  this  spectacle  hurried  home,  and  in  opening  the 
door  of  his  house  burst  into  tears.  His  wife,  amazed,  inquired 
what  was  the  matter  with  him.  He  told  her  what  he  had 
seen,  and  added,  "If  there  is  any  one  on  this  earth  whom  the 


48^  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

Lord  will  listen  to,  it  is  George  Washington,  and  I  feel  a 
presentment  that  under  such  a  commander  there  can  be  no 
doubt  of  our  eventually  establishing  our  independence,  and 
that  God  in  His  providence  has  willed  it  so." — Pages  307 
and  308,  ' '  The  Illustrated  Life  of  Washington^ "  by  J,  T. 
Headley. 

*  See  Engraving,  Washington  in  Prayer  at  Valley  Forge. 


JOHN  BRISBEN  WALKER, 

Editor  of  The  Cosmopolitan. 

ENVY  you  young  men  who  are  pursuing  the  studies 
to  fit  you  for  the  higher  duties  of  the  ministry.  You 
will  enter  the  noblest  work  that  can  be  assigned  to 
man.  There  is  a  world  for  you  to  conquer!  There 
is  a  people  crying  to  you  for  help,  and  if  you  will  go  down 
among  them  with  loving  hearts — the  great  multitude  for 
whom  Christ  died — there  will  be  such  a  response  as  the  Chris- 
tian world  has  not  seen.  Once  more  the  miracle  of  tongues 
will  be  performed,  and  you  will  speak  all  languages  that  are 
understood  by  the  human  heart. 

There  is  no  escaping  of  our  Saviour  upon  the  matter  of 
wealth  and  poverty.  Strange  to  say,  to  the  casual  reader  of 
the  Divine  Scriptures,  it  seems  the  one  subject  upon  which 
His  words  always  ring  with  a  terrible  directness  against  the 
trespasser.  The  repentant  thief — the  outcast  who  turned  in 
his  misery  upon  the  cross — had  only  to  look  to  be  forgiven. 
The  sudden  anger  of  Peter  and  his  unhappy  denials  of  his 
Lord  were  made  light  of.  Magdalen  had  but  to  fall  at  His 
feet  to  hear  His  pardon  pronounced.  But  these  rich,  how 
relentlessly  does  He  always  speak  to  them! — ^^  The  Church 
and  Poverty^ ' '  by  John  Brisben  Walker. 


George  Peabody,  Philanthropist  (1795-1869):  To  a  lad 
who  came  into  his  London  office  with  a  New  Testament,  he 
said:  "My  boy,  you  carry  that  good  Book  easily  in  your 
youth,  but  when  you  are  old  as  I  am,  it  must  carry  you. 


n 


HEROES  OF  THE  SPANISH-AMERICAN  WAR. 


George  Dewey,  Winfield  S.  Schley, 

Page  12  2.  Page  412. 

John  W.  Philip, 

Following  Page  266. 

Theodore  Roosevelt, 

Page  }8i. 


THE  UNITED  STATES  A  CHRISTIAN  NATION. 


Administering  the   Oath   of  Office   to    Presidents   McKinley,  Cleveland, 

Washington  and  Arthur.      A  National  Recognition  of 

the  Bible  on  Inauguration  Days. 


IT  is  the  duty  of  nations,  as  well  as  men,  to  own  their  dependence 
upon  the  over-ruling  power  of  God  .  .  .  and  to  recognize 
the  Holy  Scriptures,  and  proven  by  all  history,  that  those  nations 
only  are  blessed  whose  God  is  the  Lord. — Abraham  Lincoln^  p(^g^  453- 


A   CLOUD   OI^   WITNESSES.  489 

CHARLES  DUDLEY  WARNER, 

Author  and  Journalist. 

>HE  noblest  ideal  of  life  is  incarnated  in  the  person  of 
Jesus  Christ.  This  is  not  a  matter  of  dogma  or  o^ 
speculation  ;  it  is  fact.  Men  are  good  just  in  pro-- 
portion  as  they  conform  to  Him.  A  leader  of  men  is^ 
a  bad  leader  without  Him.  His  spirit  and  example  are  the 
test  of  civilization,  and  there  is  no  hope  for  society  except  in 
the  ideal  of  life  that  He  gave  the  world.  .Nations  do  not  by 
any  means  live  up  to  this  standard,  but  Christianity,  in  its 
practical  results,  challenges  comparison  with  all  other  faiths. 
It  is  perfectly  evident  that  the  nations  on  the  highest  plane 
in  education,  in  morality,  in  all  the  prosperities  of  life,  are 
Christian.  The  argument  for  Christ's  unapproachable  pre- 
eminence  as  a  Teacher  and  Saviour  of  the  world  can  safely 
rest  there.  And  the  Bible  is  the  only  infallible  guide  ia 
morals  and  in  spiritual  life. 


HENRY  WATTERSON, 

Editor  of  the  Courier-Journal,  Louisville. 

E  are  met  this  day  to  honor  the  memory  of  Chris* 
topher  Columbus,  to  celebrate  the  four  hundretb. 
annual  return  of  his  transcendent  achievement^ 
and  with  fitting  rights  to  dedicate  to  America- 
and  the  universe  a  concrete  exposition  of  the  world's  prog- 
ress between  1492  and  1892.  No  twenty  centuries  can  be 
compared  with  those  four  centuries  either  in  importance  or  in 
interest,  as  no  previous  ceremonial  can  be  compared  with 
this  in  its  wide  significance  and  reach ;  because  since  the 
advent  of  the  Son  of  God  no  event  has  had  so  great  an  in- 
fluence upon  human  affairs  as  the  discovery  of  the  Western 
hemisphere.  .  .  .  God  bless  the  children  and  their 
mothers!  God  bless  our  country's  flag!  and  God  be  with, 
us  now  and  ever ;  God  in  the  roof-tree's  shade,  God  on  the 
highway,  God  in  the  winds  and  waves,  and  God  in  out 
hearts. — From  his  Dedicatory  Oration  at  the  World^s  Column 
biaji  Exposition^  Chicago^  October  21,  1892. 


490  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

THOMAS  WARTON, 

(7\  British  Poet-Laureate.     (1728-1790.) 

oJAIh,  Calvary,  thou  mountain  hoar, 
[gl  Wet  with  our  Redeemer's  gore ! 
[y)/^  Ye  trampled  tombs,  ye  fanes  forlorn, 

Ye  stones,  by  tears  of  pilgrims  worn ! 

And  thou,  the  sepulchre  of  God ! 

By  mocking  pagans  rudely  trod. 


Soon  we  kissed  the  sacred  earth 
That  gave  a  murdered  Saviour  birth ! 

SILAS  WRIGHT, 

Brigadier-General  of  State  Militia ;  Congressman ;  United  States  Senator 

1833-1844;  Governor  of  New  York,  1844  till  death. 

(1795-1O47.) 

^HE  gift  of  our  Saviour,  and  the  full  light  of  Divine 
Revelation,  are  spiritual  blessings  which  should 
awaken  to  expressions  of  devout  thankfulness  the 
hearts  and  voices  of  a  Christian  people  everywhere. — 
^''Testimonies  of  American  Statesmen  and  Jurists  to  the 
Truths  of  Christianity^''^  by  Henry  Wilson^  United  States 
Senator,      {Afterwards  Vice-President.) 

NoTK. — The  personal  testimony  of  Senator  Wilson  is  on  page  509. 


ALEXANDER  STEWART  WEBB, 

Major-General,  and  President  of  the  College  of  the  City  of  New 

fYork. 
Y  personal  opinion  of  Christ,  the  Saviour,  and  of  the 
inspired  Book,  is  the  result  of  my  experience,  and  is 
in  perfect  accord  with  the   teachings  of  the  Church 
^         of  which  I  am  a  member. 
I  can  not  imagine  a  condition  of  affairs  in  the  United 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


49r 


States  which  would  call  forth  any  expression  of  this  opinion 
unless  some  permanent  party  should  attempt  to  drive  the 
Bible  from  our  Public  Schools. 


DANIEL  WEBSTER, 

Lawyer,  Orator,  and  Statesman.      (1782-1852.) 

.HE  Bible  is  the  Book 

of  faith,  and  a  Book 

of    doctrine,    and   a 

Book  of  morals,  and 
a  Book  of  religion,  of  spec- 
ial revelation  from  God ; 
but  it  is  also  a  Book  which 
teaches  man  his  own  indi- 
vidual responsibility,  his 
own  dignity,  and  his  equality 
with  his  fellow  man. — From 
his  Bunker  Hill  Monmnent 
Speech^  Charlestown^  Mass.^ 
June  17,  1843. 

On  one  occasion,  when  seated  in  the  drawing-room,  Mr- 
Webster  laid  his  hand  on  a  copy  of  the  Scriptures,  saying: 
with  great  emphasis,  "  This  is  the  Book.  I  have  read 
through  the  entire  Bible  many  times.  I  now  make  it  a 
practice  to  go  through  it  once  a  year.  It  is  the  Book  of  all 
others  for  lawyers  as  well  as  divines ;  and  I  pity  the  man. 
that  can  not  find  in  it  a  rich  supply  of  thought,  and  of  rules 
for  his  conduct.  It  fits  man  for  life — it  prepares  him  for 
death.  My  brother  knew  the  importance  of  Bible  truths^ 
The  Bible  led  him  to  prayer,  and  prayer  was  his  communion 
with  God.  On  the  day  he  died  he  was  engaged  in  an  ini^ 
portant  cause  in  the  courts  then  in  session.     But  this  cause. 


492  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

important  as  it  was,  did  not  keep  him  from  his  duty  to  God. 
He  found  time  for  prayer;  for  on  his  desk  which  he  had  just 
left  was  found  a  prayer  written  by  him  on  that  day, 
which  for  fervent  piety,  a  devotedness  to  his  heavenly  Mas- 
ter, and  for  expressions  of  humility  I  think  was  never  ex- 
celled." 

The  Gospel  is  either  true  history,  or  it  is  a  consummate 
fraud ;  it  is  either  a  reality  or  an  imposition.  Christ  was 
what  He  professed  to  be,  or  He  was  an  imposter.  There  is 
no  other  alternative.  His  spotless  life  in  His  eafnest  enforce- 
ment of  the  truth — His  suffering  in  its  defense,  forbid  us  to 
suppose  that  He  was  suffering  an  illusion  of  a  heated  brain. 
Every  act  of  His  pure  and  holy  life  shows  that  He  was  the 
author  of  truth,  the  advocate  of  truth,  the  earnest  defender 
of  truth,  and  the  uncompromising  sufferer  for  truth.  Now, 
considering  the  purity  of  His  doctrines,  the  simplicity  of  His 
life,  and  the  sublimity  of  His  death,  is  it  possible  that  he 
would  have  died  for  an  illusion  ?  In  all  His  preaching  the 
Saviour  made  no  popular  appeals  ;  His  discourses  were  always 
directed  to  the  individual.  Christ  and  His  apostles  sought  to 
impress  upon  every  man  the  conviction  that  he  must  stand 
or  fall  alone — he  must  live  for  himself,  and  die  for  himself, 
and  give  up  his  account  to  the  omniscient  God  as  though  he 
were  the  only  dependent  creature  in  the  universe.  The 
Gospel  leaves  the  individual  sinner  alone  with  himself  and 
his  God.  To  his  own  Master  he  stands  or  falls.  He  has 
nothing  to  hope  from  the  aid  and  sympathy  of  associates. 
The  deluded  advocates  of  new  doctrines  do  not  so  preach. 
Christ  and  His  apostles,  had  they  been  deceivers,  would  not 
so  have  preached.  If  clergymen  in  our  days  would  return 
to  the  simplicity  of  the  Gospel,  and  preach  more  to  indi- 
viduals and  less  to  the  crowd,  there  would  npt  be  so  much 
complaint  of  the  decline  of  trivj  reliL;ion.  Many  of  the  min- 
isters of  the  present  day  lake  tiieir  text  from  St.  Paul,  and 
preach  from  the  newspapers  JIl.  they  do  so,  I  prefer  to 
■enjoy  my  own  thoughts  rati.i'  tiian  to  listen.  I  want  my 
Pastor  to  come   to  me  in  the  spirit  of  the  Gospel,  saying: 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


493 


'^^You  are  mortal!  Your  probation  is  brief;  your  work  must 
be  done  speedily  ;  you  are  immortal,  too.  You  are  hastening 
to  the  bar  of  God  [  the  Judge  standeth  at  the  door."  When 
I  am  thus  admonished,  I  have  no  disposition  to  muse  or  to 
sleep. — Pages  104,  106,  andio'j  ^^ Private  Life  of  Daniel  Web- 
ster "  by  Charles  Lanmait. 

Two  weeks  before  death,  Mr.  Webster  dictated  this  testi 
mony  of  religious  faith,  and  desired  it  to  be  engraved  as  an 
epitaph  upon  his  tomb: 

"  LORD,  I  BELIEVE ;  HELP  THOU  MINE  UNBELIEF." 

Philosophical 
argument,  especially 
that  drawn  from  the  vastness  of  the 
Universe  in  comparison  with  the  appar- 
ent insignificance  of  this  globe,  has  sometimes 
shaken  my  reason  for  the  faith  which  is  in  me ; 
but  my  heart  has  always  assured  and  reassured  me  that 
the  Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ  must  be  a  Divine  Re- 
ality.    The  Sermon  on  the  Mount  can  not  be  a 
merely  human  production.     This  belief 
enters  into  the  very  depths  of  my 
conscience.    The  whole  history 
of  man  proves  it. 

DANIEL  WEBSTER. 

Having  executea  his  will,  he  remarked,  "  I  thank  God  for 
strength  to  perform  a  sensible  act."  After  some  minutes 
spent  in  prayer  he  concluded  by  exclaiming,  "And  now 
unto  God,  the  Father,  the  Son,  and  the  Holy  Ghost,  be  praise 
for  evermore.  Peace  on  earth,  and  good  will  toward  men. 
That  is  happiness — the  essence — good  will  toward  men." — 
Samuel  M.  Smucker^  Chapter  XII ^  in^^Life^  Speeches^  and 
Memorials  of  Daniel  Webster ^ 

A  few  hours  before  Mr.  Webster  died,  he  said  slowly,  "The 
great  mystery  is  Jesus  Christ — the  Gospel.  What  would  the 
condition  of  any  of  us  be  if  we  had  not  the  hope  of  immor- 
tality ?  .  .  .  Thank  God,  the  Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ 
brought  life  and  immortality  to  light^  rescued  it — brought  it 
to  light?''     He  then  began  to  repeat  the  Lord's  Prayer,  say- 


494  ^   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

ing  earnestly,  ''Hold  me  up;  I  do  not  wish  to  pray  with  a 
fainting  voice.  "  .  .  .  "I  still  live  "  were  his  last  coher- 
ent words. — Page  228,  "  Famous  American  Statesmen ^''^  by 
Mrs.  Sarah  K.  Bolton. 


HARRISON  EDWIN  WEBSTER, 

President  of  Union  College. 

THINK  that  the  Bible  is  the  revealed  Word  of  God, 
and  that  Christ  is  the  Way,  the  Truth,  and  the  lyife; 
no  man  cometh  to  the  Father  but  by  Him.    The  Scrip- 
tures contain  "those  things  which  are  able  to  make  us 
wise  unto  salvation  through  faith  which  is  in  Christ  Jesus. '^ 


^/^.M>2:^'. 


NOAH  WEBSTER, 

Lexicographer.     (1758-1843.) 


NDER  a  sense  of  this  responsibility  he  took  up  the 
study  of  the  Bible  with  painful  solicitude.  As  he 
advanced,  the  objections  which  he  had  formerly 
entertained  against  the  humbling  doctrines  of  the 
Gospel  were  wholly  removed.  He  felt  their  truth  in  his  own 
experience.  He  felt  that  salvation  must  be  wholly  of  grace. 
He  felt  constrained,  as  he  afterwards  told  a  friend,  to  cast 
himself  down  before  God,  confess  his  sins,  implore  pardon 
through  the  merits  of  the  Redeemer,  and  there  to  make  his 
vows  of  entire  obedience  to  the  commands  and  devotion  to 
the  service  of  his  Maker.  With  his  characteristic  prompti- 
tude he  instantly  made  known  to  his  family  the  feelings 
which  he  entertained.  He  called  them  together  the  next 
morning,  and  told  them  with  deep  emotion,  that,  while  he 
had  aimed  at  the  faithful  discharge  of  all  his  duties  as  theii 
parent  and  head,  he  had  neglected  one  of  the  most  impor- 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  495 

-tant — that  of  family  prayer.  After  reading  the  Scriptures, 
lie  led  them,  with  deep  solemnity,  to  the  throne  of  grace, 
and  from  that  time  continued  the  practice  with  the  liveliest 
of  interest  to  the  period  of  his  death.  He  made  a  public 
profession  of  religion  in  April,  1808.  ...  At  his  death 
he  expressed  his  entire  resignation  to  the  will  of  God,  and 
his  unshaken  trust  in  the  atoning  blood  of  the  Saviour.  .  . 
*'I  know  whom  I  have  believed,  and  that  He  is  able  to  keep 
that  which  I  have  committed  to  Him  against  that  day" — 
such  was  the  solemn  and  affecting  testimony  which  he  gave 
to  his  friend  while  the  hand  of  death  was  upon  him. — See 
Memoir  of  Noah  Webster^'''' Webster^  s  Unabridged  Dicti07taryy 


THURLOW  WEED, 

Journalist.     (1797-1882.) 

O  act  of  the  Saviour's  life  and  no  word  He  ever 
uttered  has  been,  or  can  be,  construed  or  tortured 
into  hostility  to  the  welfare  and  happiness  of  every 
member  of  the  human  family.  Human  laws  are 
founded  upon  Divine  laws.  And  that  which  concerns  our 
happiness  here  and  our  hopes  hereafter  is  derived  from 
the  Scriptures. 

If  it  be  urged  that  the  promises  of  our  Saviour  have  not 
all  been  realized,  that  sin  still  abounds,  and  that  the  world 
is  as  bad  as  ever,  it  may  be  answered  that  religion  is  work- 
ing out  its  mission  ;  that  its  benign  influences  are  constantly 
extending,  and  that  the  light  is  irradiating  the  darkest  re- 
cesses of  heathenism  and  idolatry.  It  requires  no  argument 
to  demonstrate  the  fact  that  our  race  is  improved  by  civiliza- 
tion, or  that  civilization  owes  its  origin  and  progress  to  re- 
ligion. 

Another  argument  against  religion  is  that  our  Saviour  was 
an  impostor,  and,  as  a  corollary,  that  His  teachings  exert  a 
baneful  influence.  And  yet  both  of  the  accusations  are  dis- 
proved by  the  experience  of  two  thousand  years.     If  Jesus 


496  A   CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES. 

of  Nazareth  had  been  an  impostor,  His  name  and  everything 
connected  with  it  would  hardly  have  survived  a  second  gen- 
eration. Other  and  false  teachers  have  appeared  and  dis- 
appeared. But  time  and  truth  have  attested  the  Divinity  of 
our  Saviour.  His  apostles  and  their  successors,  obeying  His 
instructions,  have  carried  and  are  carrying  the  glad  tidings 
to  the  uttermost  ends  of  the  earth.  As  far  and  as  fast  as  this 
Gospel  travels,  the  world  is  civilized  and  its  inhabitants  ben- 
efited.— Extract  from  a  speech  before  the  Nineteenth  Century 
Club;  pages  506  and  507,  ^''Kingsof  the  Platform  and  Pulpit!'^ 


SIR  THOMAS  WENTWORTH, 

(EARL  OF  STRAFFORD,) 

English  Statesman.     (1593-1641.) 

AM  here  by  the  good  will  and  pleasiire  of  Almighty 
God  to  pay  that  last  debt  I  owe  to  sin,  which  is  death ; 
and  by  the  blessing  of  God  to  rise  again,  through  the 
merits  of  Jesus  Christ,  to  righteousness  and  eternal 
life.  ...  I  never  had  in  my  heart  to  doubt  of  this  relig- 
ion; nor  even  had  any  man  the  boldness  to  suggest  any  such 
thing  to  me,  to  the  best  of  my  remembrance ;  and  so  being 
reconciled  by  the  merits  of  Jesus  Christ,  ray  Saviour,  into 
whose  bosom  I  hope  shortly  to  be  gathered  to  those  eternal 
happinesses  which  shall  have  no  end. — Pages  46  and  48, 
Volume  Illy  ^''British  Plutarch^ 


JAMES  CLARKE  WELLING, 

President  of  the  Columbian  University      (1825-1894.) 

.HE  history  of  the  world  is  Christocentric.     In  all  the 
ages  of  human  history  before  Christ,  the  testiniony 
of  Jesus  was  the  spirit  of  prophecy,  and  in  all  the 
ages  of  human  history  since  the  advent  of  Christ,  He 
has  befen  fulfilling  more  and  more  the  sublime  words,  ''And 


THE  BOYHOOD  OF  CHRIST. 


WE  inquire  if  He  had  a  boyhood,  except  as  the  years  of  that  stage  of  life  can  be 
so  called.  There  are  incidents  in  which  as  a  child  He  is  made  to  appear  in 
the  Scriptures  :  when  the  shepherds  came  to  worship  Him  ;  the  visit  of  the  Magi  ; 
the  flight  into  Egypt  ;  the  presentation  at  the  Temple  ;  when  He  was  found  of  the 
doctors  .  .  .  Amongst  the  gifts  of  the  Magi  there  was  gold,  enough  to  support 
the  family  while  in  Egypt,  and  afterwards  in.  Nazareth  ;  exactly  the  condition  to 
allow  our  Saviour  time  to  taste  something  of  the  natural  boyish  freedom  . 
Joseph  and  Mary  held  the  secret  of  our  Lord's  origin.  1  believe  the  story  came  first 
from  her ;  she  knew  Him  best  ;  she  loved  Him  best.  The  hour  was  auspicious  ; 
His  head  lay  on  her  breast  ;  from  that  pure  soft  pillow  He  looked  up  into  her  eyes  ; 
then  she  remembered  He  was.  the  Messiah,  and  from  that  moment  He  was  lost  to  all 
claims  of  boyhood  .  .  .  Scholars  were  not  admitted  at  school  before  the  age  of 
six,  and  all  instructions  were  limited  to  the  Law.  Our  Lord  was  taught,  1  think,  by 
His  mother.  The  torab  was  spread  at  her  knee  ;  He  is  quick  to  apprehend 
We  see  in  Him  the  promise  of  the  Saviour  of  men  in  the  comeliness  of  budding  youth, 
His  sad  destiny  yet  far  in  the  future. — Extracts  from  "  The  Hoy  hood  of  Chrht,"  by 
Lw  tValljcc. 


JESUS  AND  HIS  MOTHER. 


HE   saith   unto   His   mother,  Woman,  behold  thy  Son!     Then  saith  He  to  the 
disciple.  Behold  thy  mother!     And  from  that  hour  that  disciple  took  her  unto 
his  own  home. — John  xix,  26-27. 

Even  He  that  died  for  us  upon  the  Cross,  in  the  last  hour,  in  the  unutterable 
agony  of  death,  was  mindful  of  His  mother,  as  if  to  teach  us  that  this  holy  love 
should  be  our  last  worldly  thought. — Longfellow. 


A  CLOUD   OF  WITNESSES.  497 

I,  if  I  be  lifted  up  from  the  earth,  will  draw  ill  men  unto 
me."  Already  He  has  drawn  the  whole  civilized  world  to 
the  standard  of  the  moral  law  proclaimed  in  the  Sermon  on 
the  Mount ;  for  the  civilized  nations  of  the  earth  are  to-day 
Christian  in  their  moral  standards,  however  far  they  may 
fall  below  those  standards  in  international  practice. 


GILBERT  WEST, 

English  Author.     (1705-1756.) 

CAN  not  forbear  taking  notice  of  one  other  mark  of 
integrity  which  appears  in  all  the  compositions  of  the 
sacred  writers,  and  particularly  the  evangelists. 
.  They  speak  of  an  angel  descending  from  heaven  to 
foretell  the  miraculous  conception  of  Jesus  ;  of  another  proc- 
lamation of  His  birth,  attended  by  a  multitude  of  the  heav- 
enly host  praising  God  ;  of  His  star  appearing  in  the  East; 
of  angels  ministering  to  Him  in  the  wilderness  ;  of  His  glory 
in  the  mount ;  of  a  voice  twice  heard  from  heaven,  saying, 
"This  is  my  beloved  Son";  of  innumerable  miracles  per- 
formed by  Him,  and  by  His  disciples  in  His  name  ;  of  His 
knowing  the  thoughts  of  men;  of  His  foretelling  future 
events ;  of  prodigies  accompanying  His  crucifixion  and  death ; 
of  an  angel  descending  in  terrors,  opening  His  sepulchre,  and 
frightening  away  the  soldiers  who  were  set  to  guard  it ;  of 
His  rising  from  the  dead,  ascending  into  heaven,  and  pouring 
down,  according  to  His  promise,  the  miraculous  gifts  of  the 
Holy  Spirit  upon  His  apostles  and  disciples.  All  these  amaz- 
ing incidents  do  these  inspired  historians  relate  nakedly  and 
plainly  without  any  of  the  colorings  and  heightenings  of 
rhetoric,  or  so  much  as  a  single  note  of  admiration ;  without 
making  any  comment  or  remark  upon  them,  or  drawing  from 
them  any  conclusion  in  honor  either  of  their  Master  or  them- 
selves, or  to  the  advantage  of  the  religion  they  preached  in 


498  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

His  name ;  but  contenting  themselves  with  relating  the 
naked  truth,  whether  it  seems  to  make  for  them  or  against 
them ;  without  either  magnifying  on  the  one  hand,  or  pal- 
liating on  the  other,  they  leave  their  cause  to  the  unbiassed 
judgment  of  mankind,  seeking,  like  genuine  apostles  of  the 
Lord  of  truth,  to  convince  rather  than  to  persuade. — ^'■Obser- 
vatio7is  on  the  History  and  Evidence  of  the  Resurrection  of 
Jesus  Christ^''  by  Gilbert  West. 


BENJAMIN  IDE  WHEELER, 

President  oi  the  University  ol  California. 

HE  Christ  is  to  me  the  personal  embodiment  of 
the  spirit  of  good  among  men.  He  is  in  vital  form 
the  Revelation  of  God.  The  Word  became  flesh,  and 
not  book.  "  Ye  search  the  Scriptures  ....  but 
ye  will  not  come  unto  Me  that  ye  might  have  life."  I  know 
the  Christ,  not  only  as  the  historical  Jesus  of  Nazareth,  but 
as  He  lives  in  men  to-day.  I  know  through  the  Christ,  and 
the  Christ  in  men,  the  one  supreme  truth  of  religion,  that 
God  is  a  Father  who  freely  and  perfectly  loves. 

However  it  is  compassed,  the  Bible  must  be  read  more,  and 
studied  more,  and  taken  more  deeply  into  the  life  of  every 
Christian.  We  can  not  do  without  it.  It  is  the  very  heart 
of  our  faith.  It  contains  the  germ  of  the  whole  of  our  re- 
ligion. It  is  the  charter  of  our  religious  liberties  in  the 
deepest  sense  of  liberty.  He  who  reads  and  knows  it,  can 
never  be  made  a  slave  to  traditions,  or  hierarchies,  or  creeds. 
It  is  the  perpetual  inspiration  to  the  faith  of  the  Church. 
The  victims  of  unbelief  are  not  the  Bible  readers.  We  have 
known  Christian  metaphysics  to  inspire  doubt,  but  never  the 
Christian  life.  Cast  as  it  is  in  the  life-form,  it  reapplies  it- 
self continually  to  the  changing  horizons  of  thought  and 
society,  and  it  can  not  become  antiquated  nor  obsolete  any 
more  than  a  deed  of  heroism  or  a  mother's  love. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  499 

JOSEPH   WHEELER, 

Member  of  Congress,  and  Senior  Confederate  Cavalry 
General. 

^N  response  to  your  letter  asking  my  opinion  of  ^'Christ 
and  the  Bible,"  I  would  say  that  I  think  the  life  and 
death  of  Jesus  Christ  are  the  embodiment  of  the  prin- 
ciples of  the  true  religion;  and  that  the  practice  of 
His  teachings  in  the  Gospels,  and  especially  in  the  Sermon 
on  the  Mount,  will  lead  to  a  realization  of  the  ends  for  which 
the  religion  of  our  Saviour  was  instituted. 


(jJ^^Xt^. 


WILLIAM  ALMON  WHEELER, 

Financier,  Congressman,  and  Vice-President  of  the  United  States. 
(  1819-1887.) 

NOW  look  on  that  kind  of  work — leading  men  to  the 
Saviour — as  the  greatest  that  can  be  done  on  earth. 
I  would  not  give  up  my  trust  in  God — not  for  this 
'whole  world.  I  believe  man  a  sinner ;  therefore  the 
vital  necessity  of  repentance ;  the  atonement  on  Calvary  ;  the 
provision  ;  and  Christ,  the  only  Saviour. — From  the  Memorial 
Address  delivered  at  the  place  of  his  birth  and  death^  Malone^ 
New  York. 

EDWIN  PERCY  WHIPPLE, 

Author,  Essayist,  and  Critic.  (1819-1886.) 

^HE   true  glory  of  a  nation  is  an  intelligent,  industri- 
ous, Christian  people.     .     .     .     The  safety  of  a  na- 
tion depends  not  on  the  wisdom  of  its  statesmen  or 
the  bravery  of  its  generals.   The  tongue  of  eloquence 
never  saved  a  nation  tottering  to  its  fall ;  the  sword  of  a  war- 


5CXD  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

Tior  never  stayed  its  destruction.  There  is  a  surer  defense  in 
every  Christian  home.  I  say  Christian  home,  for  I  know  of 
no  glory  to  manhood  which  comes  not  from  the  Cross.  I 
know  of  no  rights  wrung  from  tyranny ;  no  truth  rescued 
from  darkness  and  bigotry,  which  has  not  waited  on  a  Chris- 
tian civilization.  Would  you  see  the  image  of  true  glory,  I 
would  show  you  villages  where  the  crown  and  glory  of  the 
people  are  in  Christian  character;  where  the  children  sire 
gathered  in  Christian  schools;  where  the  voice  of  prayer 
goes  heavenward ;  where  the  people  have  that  most  precious 
gift:  faith  in  God. — Page  248  of  School- Reader^  by  Albert 
E.  Humke^  Teacher  of  Reading  and  Orthoepy^  Indiana  State 
Normal  School. 


HENRY  KIRKE  WHITE, 

English  Poet.     (1785-1806.) 

.HINK  what  strains  of  joy  and  tranquillity  fall  on  the 
ear  of  the  saint  who  is  just  swooning  into  the  arms 
of  his  Redeemer ;  what  fearful  shapes  and  dreadful 
images  of  a  disturbed  conscience  surround  the  sin- 
ner's bed  when  the  last  twig  which  he  grasps  fails  him,  and 
the  gulf  yawns  to  receive  him.  O,  my  soul,  if  thou  art 
yet  ignorant  of  the  enormity  of  sin,  turn  thine  eyes  to  the 
Man  who  is  bleeding  on  the  Cross !  See  how  the  blood  from 
His  pierced  hands  trickles  down  His  arms,  and  the  more 
copious  streams  from  His  feet  run  on  the  accursed  tree  and 
stain  the  grass  with  purple !  Behold  His  features !  Though 
scarcely  animated  with  a  few  remaining  sparks  of  life,  yet 
how  full  of  love,  pity,  and  tranquillity!  A  tear  is  falling 
down  his  cheek,  and  His  lip  quivers.  He  is  praying  for 
His  murderers!  O,  my  soul !  it  is  thy  Redeemer!  It  is  thy 
God  !  And  this,  too,  for  sin^  for  sin  ! — See  ^^Life  of  Henry 
Kirke  White ^^  in  ''^Poetical  Works  of  Rogers^  Campbell^ 
Montgomery^  Lamb^  and  K'rkc  White ^ 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES.  50I 

JOHN  GREENLEAF  WHITTIER, 

Poet.     (1807-1892.) 


^l' 


X^^  THE  WORD  OF  GOD. 

OICE  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  making  known 
Man  to  himself,  a  witness  swift  and  sure, 
^  >b     Warning,  approving,  true  and  wise  and  pure, 
Counsel  and  guidance  that  misleadeth  none ! 
By  Thee  the  mystery  of  Life  is  read  ; 
The  picture  writing  of  the  world's  gray  seers, 
The  myths  and  parables  of  the  primal  years, 
Whose  letter  kills,  by  thee  interpreted 
Take  healthful  meanings  fitted  to  our  needs, 
And  in  the  soul's  vernacular  express 
The  common  law  of  simple  righteousness. 
Hatred  of  cant  and  doubt  of  human  creeds 
May  well  be  felt  the  unpardonable  sin 
Is  to  deny  the  Word  of  God  within ! 

OUR  MASTER. 

We  may  not  climb  the  heavenly  steeps 
To  bring  the  Lord  Christ  down  ; 

In  vain  we  search  the  lowest  deeps, 
For  Him  no  depths  can  drown. 


502  A   CIvOUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

O  Lord  and  Master  of  us  all ! 

Whate'er  our  name  or  sign, 
We  own  Thy  sway,  we  hear  Thy  call, 

We  test  our  lives  by  Thine. 


Deep  strike  Thy  roots,  O  heavenly  Vine, 

Within  our  earthly  sod, 
Most  human  and  yet  most  Divine, 

The  flower  of  Man  and  God ! 

I  believe  in  the  Scriptures  because  they  repeat  the  warn- 
ings and  promises  of  the  indwelling  Light  and  Truth ;  I  find 
in  them  the  eternal  precepts  of  the  Divine  Spirit  declared 
and  repeated.  They  testify  of  Christ  within.  .  .  .  My 
ground  of  hope  for  myself  and  for  humanity  is  in  that  Di- 
vine fullness  which  was  manifested  in  the  life,  teachings, 
and  self-sacrifice  of  Christ.  In  the  infinite  mercy  of  God  so 
revealed,  and  not  in  any  work  or  merit  of  my  own  nature,  I 
humbly,  yet  very  hopefully,  trust. — Pages  264,  265,  ^^  Life 
and  Letters  of  John  Greenleaf  W hit  tier  ^^^  by  Samuel  T, 
Pickard. 


WILLIAM  WILBERFORCE, 

English  Statesman  and  Philanthropist.     (1759-1833.) 

AM  this  week  entering  on  a  scene  of  great  tempta- 
tions— a  perpetual  round  of  dissipation,  and  a  house 
overflowing  with  guests  ;  it  is  the  more  necessary  for 
me  to  live  by  faith  in  the  Son  of  God.  Do  Thou,  then, 
blessed  Saviour  and  Friend  of  sinners,  hear  and  have  mercy 
upon  me.  Let  Thy  strength  be  magnified  in  my  weakness. 
Help  me,  O  Jesus,  and  by  Thy  spirit  cleanse  me  from  my 
pollutions ;  give  me  a  deeper  abhorrence  of  sin  ;  let  me  press 
forward.  A  thousand  gracious  assurances  stand  forth  in 
Christ's  Gospel.  I  humbly  pray  to  be  enabled  to  attend 
more  to  my  secret  devotions,  to  pray  over  Scripture ;   to  in- 

IvORD  MUNCASTER,  Fourth  Baron,  endorsed  William  Wilberforce's  "Practical  View 
of  Christianity  "  in  these  words  :  "  I  heartily  thank  you  for  your  book.  As  a  friend,  I 
thank  you  for  it;  as  a  man,  I  doubly  thank  you  ;  but,  as  a  member  of  the  Christian 
world,  I  render  you  all  gratitude  and  acknowledgment."—"  Memoir  of  William.  IVilbeV' 
Jbrce,''  published  by  Scott,  IVebster  and  Geary,  London. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  5O.7 

terlace  God's  thoughts  of  Christ ;  to  be  less  volatile,  more 
humble,  and  more  bold  for  Christ. 

What  a  blessing  it  is  to  be  permitted  to  retire  from  the 
bustle  of  this  world,  and  to  be  furnished  with  so  many  helps 
for  realizing  unseen  things  ?  I  seem  to  myself  to-day  to  be 
in  some  degree  under  the  power  of  real  Christianity;  con- 
scious, deeply  conscious  of  corruption  and  unprofitableness ; 
yet  to  such  an  one,  repenting  and  confessing  his  sins,  and 
looking  to  the  cross  of  Christ,  pardon  and  reconciliation  are 
held  forth,  and  enable  me  to  conquer  His  spiritual  enemies. 
Be  not  thou  cast  down,  O  my  soul,  but  ask  for  grace  from 
the  fullness  which  is  in  Christ  Jesus. — ^^ Life  of  William  WiU 
berforce^^  by  his  sons^  Robert  and  Samuel  Wilberforce, 


JOHN  WILSON, 

Member  of  Parliament  from  Durham. 

HIS  gentleman,  one  of  the  workingmen  members  of 
Parliament,  recently  occupied  the  pulpit  of  a  wealthy 
church  at  Hamstead,  a  suburb  of  London.  He  spoke 
of  '' Financial  Progress:  Its  Helps  and  Hindrances.'^ 
He  started  life  as  a  miner,  without  any  schooling,  gathering- 
up  his  education  as  best  he  could.  This  part  of  his  address 
is  taken  from  the  Christian  World:  "  God  has  no  partial- 
ities ;  there  are  no  favorites  in  His  family.  .  .  .  There 
is  no  power  in  this  country  more  effective  than  Christian 
teaching.  I  know  you  have  seen  it  badly  presented.  You 
have  heard  mere  wrangling  over  dogma,  and  not  true  re- 
ligion. But  that  is  not  God's  fault.  Here  [putting  his  hand 
on  the  Bible]  are  its  principles — justice,  truth,  honesty,  self- 
sacrifice,  love.  Would  these  not  help  the  world,  think  you? 
If  all  men  did  justly,  if  all  men  acted  honestly,  if  all  men 
were  merciful  in  their  relations,  if  all  men  would  take  upon 
themselves  the  self-sacrifice  of  the  good  Samaritan,  if  all 
men  had  the  love  of  Christ  for  his  fellows,  the  black  luins 
of  wickedness  and  woe  would  soon  be  ended,  and  such  a  life 
be  possible  as  becomes  this  nation." 


504 


A   CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES. 


WILLIAM  L, 

(WILHELM  FRIEDRICH   LUDWIG,) 

King  of  Prussia,  and  Emperor  of  Germany,     (1797- 1888.) 

vHB  foundation  and  rock  to  which  I,  and  we  all,  must 
cling  is  the  undefiled  faith,  as  it  is  taught  us  in  the 
Bible.  Do  not  join  the  crowd  which  either  neglects 
entirely  the  Holy  Scriptures  as  the  whole  source  of 
truth,  or  at  best  misinterprets  it  to  suit  its  own  ideas.  If 
there  is  anything  that  can  give  security  in  the  present  world 
of  action,  it  is  this  only  foundation,  which  is  laid  in  Christ 
Jesus.     May  this  day  be  a  blessed  one  to  all  of  you,  that  it 


A   CIvOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  505 

may  increase  you  in  the  knowledge  of  God,  and  on  His  only 
begotten  Son,  Jesus  Christ. — From  an  address  to  the  pupils 
jof  a  religious  institution^  at  Berlin^  in  1886. 

As  a  Christian  monarch,  even  when,  to  my  sorrow,  I  have 
to  fulfill  this  royal  duty  against  the  servants  of  a  church 
which  I  suppose  acknowledge,  no  less  than  the  Evangelical 
Church,  that  the  commandments  of  obedience  to  secular 
authority  is  an  emanation  of  the  revealed  will  of  God.  There 
is  one  more  expression  in  your  letter  which  I  can  not  pass 
over  without  contradiction,  viz.:  the  expression  that  every 
one  who  has  received  baptism  belongs  to  the  Pope.  The 
Evangelical  creed,  which,  as  must  be  known  to  your  Holi- 
ness, does  not  permit  us  to  accept  in  our  relation  to  God  any 
other  mediation  than  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ." — To  Pope  Pius 
IX.;  see  ''''Life  of  William  /.,  of  Germany^''  by  Archibald 
Forbes. 


WILLIAM  THE  SILENT, 

Prince  of  Orange ;   Founder  of  the  Dutch  Republic. 
(1533-1584.) 

MY  God,  have  mercy  upon  my  soul !     O  my  God, 
have  mercy  apon  this  poor  people  !     I  commit  my 
9j^     soul  to  Christ. 

It  has  pleased  God  Almighty  to  dispose  of  Haar- 
lem according  to  His  Divine  will.  Shall  we,  therefore,  deny 
and  deride  His  Holy  Word?  Has  the  strong  arm  of  the 
Lord  thereby  grown  weaker  ?  You  ask  me  if  I  have  entered 
into  a  firm  treaty  with  any  great  king  or  potentate,  to  which 
I  answer,  that  before  I  took  up  the  cause  of  the  oppressed 
Christians  in  these  provinces  I  had  entered  into  a  close  alli- 
ance with  the  King  of  kings;  and  I  am  firmly  convinced 
that  all  who  put  their  trust  in  Him  shall  be  saved  by  His 
almighty  arm. —  Volume  IXy  ^^ Short  Biographies  for  the 
People:' 


5o6  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

WILLIAM  IL, 

Present  King  of  Prussia  and  Emperor  of  Germany. 

^HE  future  will  need  your  strength  to  foster  the  sta- 
bility of  national  thought  and  ideals  which  the  Ger- 
man race,  by  God's  grace,  has  been  permitted  to 
bring  forth  from  Boniface  to  Goethe  and  Schiller. 
May  you  all  strive  to  be  such  men!  But  who  will  help  you? 
Only  ONE,  our  Saviour,  Who  has  borne  our  sins  and  washed 
them  away.  Then  you  will  be  armed  against  all  tempta- 
tions, vanity  and  envy.  Then  you  can  say:  "  Wir  Deutschen 
furchten  Gott  sonnst  nichts  auf  dieser  Welt.^^  (We,  Germans, 
fear  God,  but  nothing  else  in  the  world.) — To  the  Students^ 
University  of  BoJtn^  April  24,  1901/  the  day  Crown  Prince 
Frederick  William  matriculated, 

Jerusalem,  the  lofty  city,  wakens  the  recollection  of  the 
mighty  deed  of  salvation  by  our  Lord  and  Saviour  .  .  . 
The  world-renewing  power  of  the  Gospel,  which  went  out 
from  here,  impels  us,  through  a  faithful  following  of  the 
only  Redeemer,  to  exercise  Christian  compassion  to  the  weak 
and  sick ;  looking  to  Him  in  full  faith  who  died  on  the  Cross, 
it  promises  us  that  if  we  hold  firmly  to  the  Divine  teaching 
of  the  Gospel,  the  gates  of  hell  shall  not  prevail  against  the 
Church.  .  .  .  What  the  German  people  have  become, 
they  have  become  under  the  banner  of  Calvary's  Cross. — 
Khtg  William'' s  Address  in  Jerusalem^  1899,  at  the  Dedica- 
tion of  the  Church  of  the  Redeemer. 


SIR  M.  MONIER.  WILLIAMS, 

Boden  Professor  of  Sanscrit  in  the  University  of  Oxford. 
(1819-1899.) 

^HERE  is  Only  one  Name  given  among  men  whereby 
we  may  be  saved.  No  other  Name,  no  other  Saviour, 
more  suited  to  India,  to  Persia,  to  China,  to  Arabia  I 
.  .  .  The  non-Christian  bibles  are  all  developments 
in  the  wrong  direction.  They  all  begin  with  some  flashes  of 
true  light  and  end  in  utter  darkness.  Pile  them,  if  you  will, 
on  the  left  side  of  your  study  table,  but  place  your  own  Holy 
Bible  on  the  right  side — all  by  itself,  all  alone — and  with  a. 


A   CI^OUD   OF   WITNESSES.  507 

wide  gap  between.  .  .  .  Dare  to  be  downright,  with  all 
the  uncompromising  courage  of  your  own  Bible,  while  with 
it  your  watchwords  are  love,  joy,  peace,  reconciliation.  Be 
fair,  be  charitable,  be  Christ-like,  but  let  there  be  no  mistake. 
I^et  it  be  made  absolutely  clear  that  Christianity  can  not, 
must  not,  be  watered  down  to  suit  the  palate  of  either  Hindu, 
Parsee,  Confucianist,  Buddhist,  or  Mohammedan,  and  that 
whosoever  wishes  to  pass  from  the  false  religion  to  the  true 
can  never  hope  to  do  so  by  the  rickety  planks  of  compromise, 
or  by  help  of  faltering  hands  held  out  by  half-hearted  Chris- 
tians. He  must  leap  the  gulf  in  faith,  and  the  living  Christ 
will  spread  His  everlasting  arms  beneath,  and  land  him 
safely  on  the  Eternal  Rock. — Address  at  the  Anniversary  of 
the  Church  Missionary  Society^  i7i  Exeter  Hall^  London^  May 

3. 1887. 

GEORGE  WILSON, 

Scottish  Physician,  Chemist,  Professor  of  Technology  in  the  University 

of  Edinburg,    and  Director  of  the  Industrial  Museum 

of  Scotland.     (1818-1859.) 

REJOICE  that  I  have  a  creed  with  which  I  can  face 
death  and  eternity,  and  which  makes  this  life  often  a 
joyous  worship,  and  always  a  patient  endurance.  My 
prayer  is  for  a  closer  union  to  Christ,  my  Saviour;  to 
be  able  to  say,  as  Thomas  did,  with  my  whole  heart,  '*  My 
lyord,  and  my  God!"  to  realize  to  the  fullest  His  personality 
and  His  humanity;  and  to  walk  in  His  steps  as  a  lowly  fol- 
lower, disciple,  and  servant. 

The  healing  art  is  not  only  the  highest  of  all  secular  call- 
ings, but  it  is  essentially  a  Christian  calling.  The  Head  of 
our  profession  is  Christ.  He  left  all  men  an  example  that 
they  should  follow  His  steps,  but  He  left  it  specially  to  us. 
It  is  well  that  the  statues  of  Hippocrates  and  -^sculapius 
should  stand  outside  our  College  of  Physicians,  but  the  liv- 
ing image  of  our  Saviour  should  be  enshrined  in  our  hearts. 
—  Volume  VI  11^  '■^ Short  Biographies  for  the  People.''^ 


5o8 


A   CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES. 


NATHANIEL  PARKER  WILLIS. 


Poet.     (1806-1867.) 


v>S  the  Word  of  God  (Testament)  I  prize  it,  and  as  the 


gift  of  my  affectionate  Father  I  love  it,  and  shall 
always  look  upon  it  as  a  remembrance  of  an  era  in 
my  feelings  which  I  hope  I  shall  always  be  thank- 
ful for.  ...  I  have  now  the  assurance  of  being  an  heir 
of  life  everlasting,  and  a  recipient  of  the  protection  which 
the  wings  of  my  Saviour's  mercy  must  afford  to  those  who 
are  gathered  under  them. — Page  26  of  his  Life^  by  Henry  A. 
BeerSy  in  the  ^''American  Men  of  Letter s^^  Series. 

SIR  GEORGE  WILLIAMS, 

English  Capitalist;  Originator  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association. 

a"  i(^Y  life-long  experience 
^1.  as  a  business  man, 
^^!^  and  as  a  Christian 
worker  among  young 
men,  has  taught  me  that 
the  only  power  in  this 
world  that  can  effectually 
keep  one  from  evil  and 
j  sin,  in  all  the  varied  and 
often  attractive  forms 
which  they  assume,  is 
that  which  comes  from 
an  intimate  knowledge  of 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  as  a  present  Saviour.  And  I  can  alsa 
heartily  testify  that  the  safe  Guide-Book  by  which  one  may 
be  led  to  Christ  is  the  Bible,  the  Word  of  God,  which  is 
inspired  by  the  Holy  Ghost. 


A  CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  509 

JAMES  GRANT  WILSON, 

General  and  Author. 

HEN  Sir  Walter  Scott  was  on  his  death  bed  sixty 
years  ago,  he  requested  Lockhart  to  read  to  him, 
and,  on  his  son-in-law  inquiring  from  what  book, 
the  dying  poet  replied:  "Why  ask?  there  is  but 
one!"  To  that  inspired  book — the  Bible — and  to  Jesus 
Christ,  the  only  Saviour,  we  chiefly  owe  all  that  makes  life 
worth  living  in  this  world — the  charity,  courtesy,  and  good 
will  that  beautify  life,  with  the  hope  of  a  better  and  brighter 
world  beyond. 


HENRY  WILSON, 

United  States  Senator.     (1812-1875.) 

OD  has  given  us  an  existence  in  this  Christian  repub- 
lic, founded  by  men  who  proclaim  as  their  living 
faith,  amid  persecution  and  exile:  "We  give  our- 
selves to  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  and  the  Word  of  His 
Grace,  for  the  teaching,  ruling  and  sanctifying  of  us  in  mat- 
ters of  worship  and  conversation."  Privileged  to  live  in 
an  age  when  the  selectest  influences  of  the  religion  of  our 
fathers  seem  to  be  visibly  descending  upon  our  land,  we 
too  often  hear  the  Providence  of  God,  the  religion  of  our 
Lord  and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ,  the  inspiration  of  the  Holy 
Bible  doubted,  questioned,  denied  with  an  air  of  gracious 
condescension.  Remember  ever,  and  always,  that  your 
country  was  founded,  not  by  the  "most  superficial,  the  light- 
est, the  most  irreflective  of  all  European  races,"  but  by  the 
stern  old  Puritans  who  made  the  deck  of  the  Mayflower  an 
altar  of  the  living  God,  and  whose  first  act  on  touching  the 
soil  of  the  new  world  was  to  offer  on  bended  knees  thanks- 
giving to  Almighty  God. — From  an  address  before  the  Young 


5IO  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

Men's  Christian  Association  of  Natick  Massachusetts^  De- 
cember 23,  1866.  See  ''^Life  of  Henry  Wilson ^^^  by  Thomas 
Russell. 

JOHN  MOULDER  WILSON, 

Colonel  of  Engineers,  and  Superintendent  of  the  United  States 
Military  Academy,  West  Point,  New  York. 

COUNT  myself  honored  in  having  the  privilege  of 
expressing  my  sincere  belief  in  the  Divinity  of  Christ, 
and  my  deep  appreciation  of  the  truth,  grandeur,  and 
inspiration  of  the  Holy  Scriptures. 
That  profound  statesman,  that  wonderful  expounder  of 
our  Constitution,  Daniel  Webster,  expressed  himself  in  such 
glowing  words  in  regard  to  the  Bible,  and  its  influence  upon 
the  welfare  of  our  country,  that  I  trust  I  may  be  excused  for 
repeating  his  language :  "  If  we  abide  by  the  principles 
taught  in  our  Bible,  our  country  will  go  on  prospering  and 
to  prosper;  but  if  we  and  our  posterity  neglect  its  instruction 
and  authority,  no  man  can  tell  how  sudden  a  catastrophe  may 
overwhelm  us,  and  bury  all  our  glory  in  profound  obscurity." 


JOHN  WILSON, 

(CHRISTOPHER  NORTH,) 

Scottish  Author  and  Educator.     (1785-1854.) 

■  URN  from  the  oracles  of  man — still  dim  even  in  their 
clearest  response — to  the  oracles  of  God,  which  are 
never  dark.  Bury  all  your  books  when  you  feel  the 
night  of  skepticism  gathering  around  you ;  bury  them 
all,  powerful  though  you  have  deemed  their  spells  to  illumi- 
nate the  unfathomable  ;  open  your  Bible  and  all.the  spiritual 


^   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES.  511 

world  will  be  bright  as  day. — ''''Soliloquy  of  the  Seasons ^^^  by 
John  Wilson. 

He  who  is  so  familiar  with  the  Bible  that  each  chapter, 
open  it  where  he  will,  teems  with  household  words,  may 
draw  thence  their  theme  of  many  a  pleasant  and  pathetic 
song.  For  is  not  all  human  nature  and  all  human  life  shad- 
owed forth  in  those  pages?  But  the  heart,  to  sing  well  from 
the  Bible,  must  be  imbued  with  religious  feelings,  as  a  flower 
is  alternately  with  dew  and  sunshine.  The  study  of  the 
Book  must  have  begun  in  the  simplicity  of  childhood,  when 
it  was  felt  to  be  indeed  Divine,  and  carried  on  through  all 
those  silent  interv^als  in  which  the  soul  of  manhood  is  re- 
stored, during  the  din  of  life,  to  the  purity  and  peace  of  its 
early  being.  The  Bible  to  such  must  be  a  port,  even  as  the 
sky,  with  its  sun,  moon,  and  stars ;  its  boundless  blue,  with 
all  its  cloud  mysteries ;  its  peace  deeper  than  the  grave,  be- 
cause of  realms  beyond  the  grave;  its  tumult  louder  than 
that  of  life,  because  heard  altogether  in  all  the  elements. — 
Page  459,  ^^ Memoir s^^^  by  his  Daughter^  Mrs.  Gordon. 


SIR  CHARLES  WILSON, 

Director-General  of  the  '^liinance  Survey  of  England. 

yHE  Opinion  I  have  formed  from  the  surveys  and  ex- 
cavations in  Palestine,  and  from  the  discovery  of  in- 
scriptions, was  that  the  Bible  was,  of  all  ancient  books, 
the  most  wonderfully  accurate  in  relation  to  geo- 
graphical and  historical  facts.  Many  of  these  had  now  been 
explained ;  and  the  more  they  knew,  the  clearer  it  became 
that  the  Bible  was  not  wrong  in  regard  to  its  facts,  but  that 
the  people  did  not  possess  sufficient  information  to  under- 
stand them.  Quite  recently  there  had  been  some  very  won- 
derful discoveries  in  Egypt;  and  at  Tell  Mahuta,  not  far  from 
Tell-el-Kebir,  had  been  found  the  ruins  of  the  Pithom  of  the 
Bible.  Not  only  this,  but  also  of  the  treasure-chamber  which 
the   children  of   Israel  were  employed  in  building  for  the 


512  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

Pharaoh  ''  who  knew  not  Joseph."  The  discovery  of  this 
town  had  thrown  a  good  deal  of  light  upon  the  route  taken 
by  the  Israelites  on  leaving  Egypt.  They  could  not  tell 
exactly  the  route  taken,  but  could  draw  a  line  within  very 
narrow  limits,  and  were  able  to  say  within  ten  or  twelve 
miles  which  way  they  went  after  leaving  Egypt  for  Pales- 
tine. Another  late  discovery  was  the  excavation  of  Pharaoh's 
house  at  Tahapanes,  mentioned  two  or  three  times  in  Jere- 
miah, and  it  was  extremely  interesting  to  have  uncovered 
the  very  house  named  by  Jeremiah.  In  Palestine  there  had 
been  many  discoveries,  but  not  of  recent  date.  The  latest 
was  that  of  an  inscription  in  the  rock-hewn  channel  which 
conveys  the  water  of  the  Fountain  of  the  "  Virgin  "  to  the 
Pool  of  Siloam.  It  was  interesting  as  proving  that  the  lan- 
guage of  the  Israelites  about  700  B.  C.  was  the  same  pure 
Hebrew  that  is  used  in  the  earlier  books  of  the  Bible,  and 
was  the  oldest  inscription  in  the  Hebrew  yet  discovered. — 
Address  at  a  Missionary  Service^  Southampton^  England. 


SIR  DANIEL  WILSON, 

President  of  the  University  of  Toronto. 

^N  reply  to  your  letter  it  seems  to  me  that  I  shall  best 
meet  your  wishes  by  noting  the  popular  opinion,  not 
only  that  scientific  men  are  skeptics,  but  that  the 
whole  tendency  of  scientific  research  is  antagonistic  to 
a  belief  of  revealed  truth.  A  very  little  consideration  dis- 
closes the  source  of  this  misleading  error. 

Men  do  not  directly  associate  the  professional  life  of  the 
lawyer,  the  tradesmen,  the  artist,  or  the  mechanician  with 
his  religious  belief.  It  is  taken  for  granted  that  among 
them,  as  in  the  community  at  large,  there  are  devout  Chris- 
tians ;  others  indifferent  to  religion,  and  some  avowed  un- 
believers. But  it  is  otherwise  with  the  students  of  science. 
Many  questions,  such  as  the  six  days  of  creation,  the  antiq- 
uity of  man,  the  evolutionary  hypothesis,  the  geological  and 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  513 

historical  evidence  of  the  deluge,  etc.,  are  appealed  to  the 
student  of  science.  In  not  a  few  cases  his  rejection  of  erro- 
neous interpretations  of  scientific  evidence  is  mistaken  for 
antagonism  to  revealed  truth ;  and  when  he  does  declare 
himself  an  agnostic,  he  is  assumed  to  represent  the  opin- 
ions of  the  whole  body. 

This  is  most  unjust.  The  study  of  the  universe,  with  all 
its  wondrous  revelations,  tells  us  indeed  how  little  we  know. 
But  in  so  doing  it  begets  rather  the  devout  modesty  of  a 
Newton  than  the  materialistic  skepticism  of  the  agnostic. 
When  a  lawyer,  or  merchant,  however  eminent,  is  known  as 
an  avowed  unbeliever,  no  one  assumes  that  therefore  all 
lawyers  and  merchants  are  so.  But  the  agnosticism  of  a  few 
living  men  of  science  has  been  credited,  not  to  them  as  in- 
dividuals, but  to  the  whole  body.  In  reality,  there  are  prob- 
ably as  many  skeptical  lawyers,  tradesmen,  and  mechanics 
as  are  to  be  found  among  men  of  science  ;  while,  on  the  other 
hand,  some  of  the  most  eminent  Christians  have  been  among 
the  latter.  I  heed  only  refer  to  such  names  as  (*)  Ampere, 
Faraday,  Sir  David  Brewster,  Clerk  Maxwell,  Doctor  George 
Wilson,  Sir  William  Hamilton,  Sir  James  Simpson,  Professor 
Joseph  Henry,  the  great  astronomer  Adams,  and  others 
among  the  most  famous  scientific  men  of  the  present  century ; 
all  of  whom  were  devoted  Christians ;  willingly  sparing  time 
from  their  professional  and  scientific  labors  for  religious 
work ;  holding  fast  their  faith  in  the  Holy  Scriptures,  and 
quitting  themselves  like  men,  in  the  service  of  Christ,  their 
Lord  and  Saviour. 

♦The  reader  is  cited  to  the  testimonies  of  these  Scientists  in  their  alpha- 
betical order. 


514  A  CI.OUD  OF  Witnesses. 

ALEXANDER  WINCHELL, 

Professor  of  Geology,  University  of  Michigan,  1 879-1 891. 
(1824-1891.) 

^HK  history  of  religions  and  philosophies  is  thus  the 
confirmation  of  Christianity.  We  may,  indeed,  re- 
gard the  Revelation  of  God  to  the  human  soul  to  be 
genuine  and  authentic,  though  not  as  clear  and  in- 
fluential as  the  revelation  in  the  Person  and  teaching  of 
Christ.  These  two  revelations  are  harmonious,  and  must  be 
so.  Greek  philosophy  had  made  circulation,  from  the  data 
of  human  consciousness,  that  a  Saviour  was  needed  ;  that  a 
Saviour  must  be  predicated.  Paul  came  to  Athens  and 
pointed  out  the  Saviour  whose  want  had  been  felt,  giving 
sight  to  the  blind  instinct  that  had  been  feeling  after  God, 
and  preached  a  Gospel  which  fulfilled  the  prophetic  longings 
of  the  struggling  ages  of  Greek  philosophy. 

I  desire  to  inspire  your  minds  with  a  confidence  that  the 
interests -of  religion  are  by  no  means  in  peril.  It  is  un- 
manly to  be  found  quaking  with  fear.  Faith  is  to  experi- 
ence another  renaissance.  It  may  not  be  easy,  it  may  not 
now  be  possible,  to  explain  how  all  discordances  are  to  be 
reconciled  ;  but  I  entertain  the  strongest  confidence  that  all 
the  conflicts  of  the  passing  hour  will  only  result  in  the 
elimination  of  a  body  of  truth — religious  and  secular — more 
beautiful  and  lovely  than  any  upon  which  human  thought  has 
yet  been  fixed.  I  wish  you  to  feel  brave.  I  wish  you  to  feel 
strong.  I  wish  you  to  feel  jubilant.  I  would  like  to  lift  my 
arm  as  high  as  heaven  to  signify  my  steadfast  faith  in  the 
fortunes  of  our  Christianity.  I  would  like  to  speak  with  a 
voice  which  all  the  terrified  should  hear,  and  take  heart 
again.  I  would  like  to  raise  a  shout  which  shall  fill  the 
world  at  the  joy  I  feel  over  the  coming  reconciliation  of  the 
contending  forces,  and  the  final  establishment  of  the  har- 
mony and  the  sacredness  of  all  that  truth  which  God  has 
constituted  us  to  accept,  for  which  philosophers  have 
thought,  poets  have  dreamed,  or  martyrs  bled.     But   more 


A  CLOUD  OF  WITNESSES.  515 

than  faith  sustains  me.  I  am  not  enveloped  in  impenetrable 
fog.  I  have  a  prophetic  discernment  of  the  methods  by 
which  the  new  reconciliation  is  to  be  effected.  It  is  not  a 
new  faith  that  we  are  to  receive ;  it  is  the  old,  old  faith  in  a 
bright,  new  vesture.  Look,  I  pray  you,  at  the  tendencies  of 
the  conflicts  which  the  opposing  battalions  are  waging  to- 
day. Is  the  strife  between  Moses  and  geology?  To  my  mind 
the  inspired  epic  of  Moses  presents  an  accordance  with  the 
geological  history  of  the  world  which  is  almost,  if  not  quite, 
supernatural,  and  is  made  more  wonderful  in  the  light  which 
science  has  thrown  upon  it.  Even  admitting  the  impossi- 
bility of  a  circumstantial  harmony,  all  conflict  has  forever 
vanished. — Pages  226,  289,  356,  ^^Reconciliation  of  Science 
and  Religion^''''  by  Alexander   Wine  hell. 


JOHANN  JOACHIM  WINCKELMANN, 

German  Archaeologist.     (1817-1868,) 

UTIES  flow  from  this  source  unto  all  mankind  in 
one  family.  Herein,  until  the  time  of  Moses,  con- 
sisted the  Law  and  the  Prophets.  The  proof  of 
the  subsequent  Divine  Revelation  is  obtained  not 
through  the  dead  letter,  but  through  the  Divine  motives 
which,  as  many  believers  have  felt  them,  I  also  expect  with 
reason  to  feel  within  myself  in  still  worship. — Page  22,  Vol- 
zi?ne  /,  "  The  History  of  Ancient  Art^''''  tracts lated  from  the 
German  of  fohn  Winckelmann^  by  G.  He^iry  Lodge, 


GEORGE  T.  WINSTON, 

Late  President  of  University  of  North  Carolina. 

O  one  can  read  the  Bible  without  seeing  that  it  is  as 

far  superior  to  other  books  as  man's  spiritual  nature 

is  superior  to  his  intellect  or  body.     It  is  a  literary 

photograph  of   God  as  revealed  to   spiritual    eyes 

through  all  the  ages. 


5l6  A   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES. 

Jesus  Christ  is  the  only  Saviour.  His  character  is  the 
concentrated  embodiment  of  all  that  is  best  in  humanity, 
the  most  miraculous  compound  of  simplicity  and  complexity, 
of  clearness  and  mystery,  of  God  and  Man.  He  is  the  Alpha 
and  Omega,  the  beginning  and  the  end,  the  first  and  the 
last. 


^^^t<rZrtt_ 


WILLIAM   WINDOM,* 

United  States  Senator;  Secretary  of   Treasury  under  President  Garfield, 

cy^  (1827-1891.) 

)EST  I  may  go  and  leave  you  without  an  opportunity 

to  say  this,  I  want  you  to  have  the  comfort  of  know- 

t^o  ing  that  if  I  were  to  die  to-day  it  would  be  in  the 

sure  and  peaceful  hope  of  a  blessed  immortality — that 

hope  based  not  on  any  worthiness  of  mine,  but  solely  on   a 

firm  trust  in  my  living  Redeemer. —  To  his  wife;  published 

in  Washington  papers  at  the  time  of  his  sudden  death. 


JOHN  WINTHROP, 

G)  First  Governor  of  Massachusetts  Colony.     (  1588-1649.) 

iB  of  good  comfort;  the  hardest  that  can  come  shall  be 
a  means  to  mortify  this  body  of  corruption,  which  is 
a  thousand  times  more  dangerous  to  us  than  any  out- 
ward tribulation,  and  to  bring  us  into  nearer  com- 
munion with  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  and  more  assurance  of 
His  kingdom. —  To  his  wife^  dated  May  15,  1629.  ^^^  ^^^^ 
tone  VI ^  ^'' Appleton*  s  Cyclopcsdia  of  American  Biography.'^'' 

*  I  have  been  acquainted  with  Mr.  Windom  well  for  more  than  twenty 
years,  and  he  was  the  most  consistent  Christian  I  ever  knew  in  public 
life. — Eulogy  from  Ex-Justice  William  Strong  of  the  United  States  Su- 
preme Court. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  517 

SIR  GARNET  JOSEPH  WOLSELEY. 

Commander-in-Chief  of  the  British  Army. 


WILLIAM   WIRT, 

Lawyer  and  Author.     (1772-1834.) 

WANT  only  my  blessed  Saviour's  assurance  of  pardon 
and  acceptance  to  be  at  peace.  I  wish  to  find  no  rest 
short  of  rest  in  Him.  I  have  no  taste  for  worldly 
business.  I  go  to  it  reluctantly.  I  would  keep  com- 
pany with  my  Saviour  only  and  the  Holy  Book.  I  dread 
the  world — the  strife  and  contention  and  emulation  of  the 
bar;  yet  I  will  do  my  duty — this  is  a  part  of  my  religion. — 
^^Life  of  William  Wirt^''  by  William  Pendleton  Kennedy. 


JOHN  WINTHROP, 

Physicist.    (1714-1779.) 

IS  faith  Upon  the  Christian  religion  was  founded  upon 
an  accurate  examination  of  the  evidences  of  its  truths, 
and  the  witness  of  his  life  added  a  lustre  to  his  intel- 
lectual powers  and  scientific  attainments.  In  his 
family  he  devoutly  maintained  the  worship  of  the  Supreme 
Being.  While  he  himself  attended  upon  the  positive  insti- 
tutions of  the  Gospel,  he  could  not  conceive  what  reason 


5l8  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

anyone  who  called  himself  Christian  could  give  for  neglect- 
ing them.  The  day  before  his  death  he  said  "The  hope 
that  is  set  before  us  in  the  New  Testament  is  the  only  things 
which  will  support  a  man  in  his  dying  hour.  If  any  man 
builds  on  any  other  foundation,  in  my  apprehension  his 
foundation  will  fail." — Allen's  ^^ American  Biography.^^ 


ROBERT  CHARLES  WINTHROP, 

Statesman  and  Author.     (1809-1895.) 

^HB  Bible  itself  is  its  own  best  witness.  No  evolution 
produced  that  Volume,  and  no  revolution  of  thought, 
or  action,  or  human  will  can  ever  prevail  against  it. 
Revisions  and  new  versions  may  improve  or  may  im- 
pair the  letter,  but  they  can  never  change  its  essential  char- 
acter. The  Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ,  through  which  He 
brought  life  and  immortality  to  light,  like  its  Divine  Author, 
is  the  same  "yesterday,  to-day,  and  forever." 


r 


W.  PAGE  WOOD, 

(LORD  HATHERLEY,) 

Lord  Chancellor  of  England.     ( 1801-1881.) 

a!>^<^UGUST,  1875.  To-day  we  (myself  and  Lady  Hath- 
^^fc)V  erley)  have  just  finished  our  reading  of  the  Bible 
through  together  for  the  forty-fourth  time.  In  my 
old  age  I  begin  so  immensely  to  prefer  the  Holy 
Scriptures  to  all  good  books  of  what  kind  soever.  It  is 
always  new;  at  least,  one  always  finds  something  new  that 
escaped  one's  observation  at  the  last  reading ;  and  how  won- 
derfully independent  it  is  of  a  various  reading  here,  or  a 


^ 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  519 

mistaken  translation  there,  being  the  whole  that  it  is,  a  liv- 
ing whole,  that  is  and  will  be  "Spirit  and  Life"  till  time 
shall  be  no  more.  "Thy  Word,  O  Lord,  is  settled  forever 
in  heaven." — Memoir  of  Lord  Hatherley^  in  ^^The  Crow7i  of 
the  Road^^^  by  Charles  Bullock^  p^g^  207. 


STEWART  LYNDON  WOODFORD, 

Minister  to  Spain  under  President  McKinley. 

HAVE  no  hesitation  whatever  in  giving  my  opinion 
on  any  subject  whereon  I  have  formed  one ;  and  in 
this  case  I  am  profoundly  impressed  with  the  deep 
conviction  that  the  teachings  and  inspiration  of  Jesus 
Christ  and  the  Holy  Scriptures  are  at  the  core  of  our  civil- 
ization.   -  ^^^^r^ 


JAMES  WOODROW, 

President  of  South  Carolina  College, 

BELIEVE  in  the  Word  of  God  ;  not  of  an  "  unknown 
God,"  such  as  the  learned  Athenians  ignorantly  wor- 
shiped ;  but  of  the  almighty  personal  God,  who 
created  the  heavens  and  the  earth ;  who  made  man  in 
His  own  image,  for  his  sake  sparing  not  even  His  only  be- 
gotten Son ;  yea,  in  the  Word  of  God,  who  is  the  God  and 
Father  of  our  Lord  and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ;  and  who,  at 
sundry  times  and  in  divers  manners,  spake  in  time  past 
unto  the  fathers  by  the  prophets,  and  hath  in  these  last  days 
spoken  unto  us  by  His  Son ;  it  is  the  Word  of  this  God,  thus 
spoken,  and  through  His  goodness  transmitted  to  us.  If  we 
examine  this  Word,  with  open  and  candid  minds,  subjecting 
it  to  every  test  by  which  truth  is  distinguished  from  false- 
hood, we  will  most  assuredly  find  it  true  in  every  syllable, 


520  A   CI^OUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

wholly  free  from  error,  the  very  word  of  the  Lord  God  of 
truth  and  righteousness ;  and  therefore  a  guide  on  which  we 
may  most  securely  rest.  From  this  glorious  Revelation  we 
learn  that  Jesus  Christ  took  on  Himself  our  nature  that  He 
might  suffer  and  die  in  our  stead,  and  thus  cleanse  us  from 
all  sin.  With  many  years  of  experience  and  observation  I 
testify  that  no  man  whom  I  have  known,  or  of  whom  I  have 
ever  heard,  has  taken  heed  to  His  way  according  to  God's 
Word,  whose  way  was  not  thereby  made  spotlessly  clean. 


^(k-^^^'-^.^^^       ft^-o-a-^^^-'^r'-^^^r. 


SAMUEL  WOODWORTH, 

Poet.     (1785-1842.) 


THE  CRUCIFIXION. 

EEPING  Mary,  bathed  in  sorrow, 
ilH/X  Lingered  near  the  scene  of  horror, 
Tq^       Where  the  dying  Saviour   hung; 
From  whose  bursting  heart  arising, 
Groans  of  anguish  agonizing 

Floated  o'er  His  fevered  tongue. 

Oh,  what  sorrow,  deep,  unbounded. 
That  maternal  bosom  wounded. 

Once  the  Saviour's  couch  of  rest ! 
How  she  wept  to  see  Him  languish, 
How  she  trembled  for  the  anguish 

Laboring  in  His  guiltless  breast ! 

While  such  pangs  as  fiends  invented 
Still  her  suffering  Son  tormented. 

Scorn  and  bruises,  stripes  and  death ; 
She  beheld  Him  thus  expiring. 
Human  friends  for  fear  retiring, 
Whilst  in  groans  He  spent  His  breath. 


A  CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  52 1 

Matchless  mercy,  love  amazing ! 
Far  above  our  feeble  praising, 

Far  beyond  our  humble  lays; 
May  its  influence  never  vary, 
Till  my  heart,' like  that  of  Mary, 

Glows  with  a  seraphic  blaze. 

Gracious  Saviour,  now  in  glory. 
Be  this  sad,  affecting  story 

Deeply  on  my  soul  imprest ! 
May  the  scene  of  such  affliction 
Bring  the  hardest  heart  conviction, 

Melt  the  most  obdurate  breast ! 


WILLIAM  WORDSWORTH, 

EngHsh  Poet-Laureate.      (1770-1850.) 


TRUST  IN  THE   SAVIOUR. 


UT  Thou  art  true,  Incarnate  Lord ! 
Who  didst  vouchsafe  for  man  to  die ; 
Thy  smile  is  sure.  Thy  plighted  Word 
No  charge  can  falsify. 


522 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

HYMN  FOR  THE  BOATMAN. 

Jesu,  bless  our  slender  boat, 
By  the  current  swept  along ! 

Loud  its  threatenings — let  them  not 
Drown  the  music  of  a  song 

Breathed  Thy  mercy  to  implore, 

Where  the  troubled  waters  roar. 

Saviour,  for  our  warning,  seen 
Bleeding  on  that  precious  rood  ; 

If,  while  through  the  meadows  green 
Gentl}'^  wound  the  peaceful  flood. 

We  forget  Thee,  do  not  Thou 

Disregard  Thy  suppliants  now. 


TRANSLATION  OF  THE  BIBLE. 

But  to  outweigh  all  harm,  the  sacred  Book, 

In  dusty  sequestration  wrapt  too  long. 

Assumes  the  accents  of  our  native  tongue ; 

And  he  who  guides  the  plow  or  wields  the  crook 

With  understanding  spirit  now  may  look 

Upon  her  records,  listen  to  her  song. 

And  sift  her  laws — much  wondering  that^the  wrong 

Which  Faith  hath  suffered,  Heaven  could  calmly  brook. 

Transcendent  boon  !     Noblest  that  earthly  king 

Ever  bestowed  to  equalize  and  bless 

Under  the  weight  of  mortal  wretchedness. 


SIR  HENRY  WOTTON, 

English  Diplomat  and  Author.     (1568-1639.) 

^N  the  name  of  God  Almighty  and  All-merciful,  I, 
Henry  Wotton,  Provost  of  His  Majesty's  College  of 
Eton,  being  mindful  of  mine  own  mortality,  which  the 
sin  of  our  first  parents  did  bring  upon  all  flesh,  do,  by 
this  last  Wiil  and  Testament  thus  dispose  of  myself,  and  the 
poor  things  I  shall  leave  in  this  world.  My  soul  I  bequeath 
to  the  immortal  God,  my  Maker,  Father  of  our  Lord  Jesus 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  523 

Christ,  my  blessed  Redeemer  and  Mediator,  through  His  all 
sole-suffering  satisfaction  for  the  sins  of  the  whole  world, 
and  efficient  for  His  elect,  in  the  number  of  whom  I  am  one 
by  His  mere  grace,  and  therefore  immeasurably  assured  by 
the  Holy  Spirit,  the  true  and  eternal  Comforter.  ...  I 
wish  to  be  laid  as  near  as  may  be  to  the  sepulchre  of  my  good 
father,  expecting  a  joyful  resurrection  with  him  in  the  day 
of  Christ. — Page  147,  "  Walton's  Lives. ''^ 


CARROLL  DAVIDSON  WRIGHT, 

Statistician  and  Commissioner  of  Labor. 

BEIvXEVE  that  in  the  adoption  of  the  philosophy  of 
the  religion  of  Jesus  Christ  as  a  practical  creed  for 
the  conduct  of  business  lies  the  surest  and  speediest 
solution  of  those  industrial  difficulties  which  are  ex- 
isting in  the  minds  of  men  to-day,  and  leading  many  to 
think  that  the  crisis  of  government  is  at  hand. 


imMflZyi^ 


ARTHUR  WELLESLEY,  DUKE  OF 
WELLINGTON, 

Field  Marshal  of  Great  Britain  ;  Hero  of  Waterloo.    (1759-1E52.) 

'T  is  not  because  of  the  height  of  his  position,  the  mag- 
nitude of  his  character,  the  devotion  to  his  country, 
that  he  placed  his  hopes  of  eternal  salvation,  but  be- 
cause he  knew  these  only  were  valuable  proofs  of  his 
faith,  all  of  which  he  cast  at  the  feet  of  his  Saviour.  He  fixed 
all  of  his  hopes  of  future  glory  in  the  sacrifice  of  the  beloved 
Son  of  God,  who  died  on  the  accursed  Cross  that  he  might 
live. — Page  374,   Volume  11^  by  J'  H.  Stockqueler. 


524  A  CI.OUD   OF  WITNESSES. 

WILLIAM  III, 

King  of  England  and  Prince  of  Orange.     (1650-1702.) 

FAITHFUIylyY  promise  in  the  presence  of  the  eternal 
God  that,  during  the  whole  course  of  life,  I  will  serve 
the  same  eternal  God  to  the  utmost  of  my  power, 
according  as  He  has  required  in  His  most  Holy  Word, 
revealed  and  contained  in  the  New  Testament ;  and  according 
to  the  same  Word,  shall  maintain  the  true  religion  of  Jesus 
Christ — Page  26,  ''Lives  of  the  Queens  of  England^^^  Volume 
11^  by  Agnes  Strickland. 

SIR  RICHARD  WILBRAHAM, 

Major-General  of  the  British  Army. 

AM  glad  to  add  my  name  to  those  Witnesses  of  all 
countries  and  professions  who  have  borne  testimony 
to  the  truths  of  Christianity  and  its  Bible.  As  almost 
the  oldest  soldier  in  the  British  Army,  I  am  thankful 
to  witness  to  the  large  and  increasing  number  of  my  com- 
rades in  all  ranks  who  are  earnest  believers  in  the  divinity  of 
Jesus  Christ  and  the  Holy  Scriptures. 

GEORGE  L  WELLINGTON, 

United  States  Senator  from  Maryland. 

HAVE  no  hesitancy  in  affirming   that    I    believe   in 
Christ  and  the  revealed  Word;  and  further,  I  believe 
that   the  Christian    religion   and    the  civilization    it 
brings  with  it  are  the  highest  and  richest  gifts  that 
can  be  given  to  mankind. 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES  525 

SIR  CHARLES  WARREN, 

British  Lieutenant-General. 

ACCEPT  the  Bible  as  the  revealed  will  of  God  and 
Jesus  Christ  as  the  only  Saviour  of  men,  and  the  very 
God.  We  should  form  our  own  opinions  on  these 
grave  subjects  rather  than  on  the  opinion  of  others. 
Divine  authority  affirms  that  "if  they  hear  not  Moses  and 
the  prophets,  neither  will  they  be  persuaded  though  one  rose 
from  the  dead!" 

JOHN  C.  WATSON, 

Rear-Admiral. 

BELIEVE  in  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  Our  Divine 
Saviour  is  the  best  Friend  any  human  being  ever  had 
or  ever  could  have,  and  His  loving  help  is  freely 
offered  to  all  who  will  accept  it. 


piA^dsz:h 


CHARLES  LINDLEY  WOOD,  VISCOUNT 
HALIFAX, 

G)^^  Philanthropist. 

^A^TTENDANCE  at  the  memorial  of  our  Saviour's  Death 

\f^    and   Passion  will  profit  nothing  to  the  Christian, 

<^  (^    except  in  so  far  as  he  associates  himself  heart  and 

soul  with  the  offering  which  our  Great  High  Priest 

made  on  the  Cross. — "  The  Present  Crisis  in  the  Church  of 

England,^'  by  Viscount  Halifax,  ''  The  Nineteenth  Century,^'' 

February,  1899. 


526  A   CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES. 

THE  RIGHT  HONORABLH,  THE  EARL 
OF  WINCHILSEA, 

British  Statesman. 

^HE  Bible  is  not  a  clergyman's  Book  alone.  It  is  in- 
tended to  be  a  gift  to  each  individual  man  from  his 
Creator.  I  believe  that  we  stand  on  the  rock  when 
we  take  as  our  great  principle  that  it  is  the  Book  itself 
with  which  we  are  primarily  connected,  and  that  we  do  not 
concern  ourselves  with  any  human  interpretation  of  it,  how- 
ever excellent.  We  place  before  the  individual  the  Divine 
Scriptures,  and  we  trust  to  the  power  of  God,  which  inspired 
the  Word,  to  interpret  His  salvation  through  Jesus  Christ. — 
Extract  from  a  Speech  at  the  Annual  Meeting  of  the  British 
and  Foreign  Bible  Society^  London^  1894. 


LEW  WALLACE, 

Author  of  "Ben  Hur,"  and  "The  Prince  of  India." 
Major-General  in  Civil  War;  Diplomat. 

AM  asked  what  led  me  to  write  "Ben  Hur.''  In  ex- 
planation it  is  proper  to  state  that  I  had  reached  an 
age  when  men  begin  to  study  themselves  with  refer- 
ence to  their  fellow  men.  Up  to  that  time,  never 
having  read  the  Bible,  I  knew  nothing  about  sacred  history, 
and  in  matters  of  a  religious  nature,  although  I  was  not  in 
every  respect  an  infidel,  I  was  persistently  indifferent.  I  did 
not  know,  and  therefore  did  not  care.  I  resolved  to  begin 
the  study  of  the  good  Book  in  earnest. 

I  was  in  quest  of  knowledge,  but  I  had  no  faith  to  sustain, 
no  creed  to  bolster  up.  The  result  was  that  the  whole  field 
of  biblical  history  opened  up  before  me,  and  my  vision  not 
being  clouded  by  previously  formed  opinions,  I  was  able  to 
survey  it  without  the  aid  of  lenses.  I  believe  I  was  thorough 
and  persistent.  I  know  I  was  conscientious  in  my  search 
for  the  truth.  I  weighed,  I  analyzed,  I  compared.  The  evo- 
lution from  conjecture  into  knowledge,  through  opinion  and 
belief,  was  gradual  and  irresistible;  and  at  length  I  stood 
firmly  and  defiantly  on  the  solid   Rock.      Upward  of  seven 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  527 

hundred  thousand  copies  of  "Ben  Hur"  have  been  published, 
and  it  has  been  translated  into  all  languages  from  French  to 
Arabic;  but  whether  it  has  ever  influenced  the  mind  of  a 
single  reader  or  not,  I  am  sure  its  conception  and  preparation, 
if  it  has  done  nothing  more,  has  convinced  its  author  of  the 
divinity  of  the  lowly  Nazarene.  n  l<^   p  p 


CHARLES  AUGUSTUS  YOUNG, 

Scientist;  Professor  of  Astronomy  in  Princeton  College. 

ACCEPT  the  Bible  as  the  Word  of  God,  revealing  the 
law  of  love  and  holiness  which  ought  to  govern  hu- 
man intercourse,  and  which  alone  can  remedy  the 
evils  and  right  the  wrongs  of  society. 
In  Jesus  Christ,  our  Lord,  I  find  the  type  and  example 
of  the  highest  manhood  made  perfect  in  the  image  of  its 
Maker ;  and,  what  is  more,  the  Divine  Redeemer,  delivering 
all  who  trust  in  Him  from  both  the  penalty  and  power  of 
sin,  and  by  the  Holy  Spirit  guiding  them  to  ultimate  per- 
fection of  character. 


ry'^^AT^t.^'^^ 


HANS  JOACHIM  VON  ZIETHEN, 

Prussian  Major-General  under  Frederick  the  Great. 
9  n  <i699-i786.) 

"^"OUR  Majesty  knows  well  that,  in  war,  I  have  never 
^\r\   feared    any  danger,  and    have  everywhere    boldly 

2  ^^2^  risked  my  life  for  you  and  my  country.  But  there 
is  One  above  us  who  is  greater  than  you  or  me — 
greater  than  all  men.  He  is  the  Saviour  and  Redeemer, 
who  has  died  also  for  your  Majesty,  and  has  dearly  bought 
us  with  His  own  blood.  This  One  I  can  never  allow  to  be 
insulted;  for  on  Him  I  repose  my  faith,  my  comfort,  and  my 
hope  in  life  and  death. — Addressed  to  Frederick  the  Great, 
See  The  British  Workman. 


528 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


THE  CHRISTIAN  SIGNERS 

OF  THE 

DECLARATION  OF  INDEPENDENCE. 

THE    ^'Biographical 
Sketches  of  the  Signers 
of  the  Declaration  of  Inde- 
pendence,"   by    Ivossing; 
**  American   Christian    Rul- 
ers, ' '  by  Giddings,  and  * '  Ap- 
pleton's  Cyclopaedia,"  touch 
the  religious  side  o  f  many 
Signers.     With  a  few  excep- 
tions they  were  pronounced 
believers,   and  that,    too,   in 
the  heyday  of  French  infidel- 
ity.    John   Adams,   Samuel 
Adams,  Benjamin  Franklin,  Thomas  Jefferson,   Richard  H. 
Lee,  Benjamin  Rush,  and  Richard  Stockton,  testify  in  these 
pages. 

Eighteenth-Century  Christianity  had  loyal  supporters  in 
Charles  Carroll  of  Carrollton,  Samuel  Chase,  William  Ellery, 
William  Floyd,  Stephen  Hopkins,  Francis  Hopkinson,  Sam- 
uel Huntington,  Francis  Lightfoot  Lee,  Francis  Lewis, 
Philip  Livingston,  Robert  Livingston,  Thomas  Nelson,  Rob- 
ert Treat  Paine,  Roger  Sherman,  James  Smith,  Matthew 
Thornton,  William  W^illiams,  James  Wilson,  John  Wither- 
spoon,  Oliver  Wolcott  and  others. 

In  this  connection  it  is  of  interest  to  note  that  Elias  Boud- 
inot— not  a  Signer-^but  President  of  Congress  in  1782,  sign- 
ing the  Treaty  of  Peace  with  England,  was  the  first  President 
of  the  American  Bible  Society.  His  oration  before  the 
** Order  of  Cincinnati,"  at  Elizabethton,  New  Jersey,  July 
4)  1 793'  contains  this  paragraph:  *'The  resurrection  of 
Jesus  Christ  is  commemorated  by  keeping  the  first  day  of  the 
week.  The  prophecies  of  ancient  days  hasten  the  fulfillment 
when  this  wilderness  shall  blossom  as  the  rose,  the  heathen 
be  given  to  the  Redeemer  as  His  inheritance,  and  the  utter- 
most parts  of  the  earth  for  His  possessions." 


FOREMOST  AMERICANS  CHAMPION  THE   DIVINITY  OF  CHRIST. 

1.  Secretary  of  Treasury  Gage ;  2.  Postmaster-General  Smith;  3,  Inspector- General  Breckinridge; 
4.  United  States  Senator  Hale ;  5.  United  States  Senator  Allison ;  6.  Rear- Admiral  Sampson ;  7.  Major- 
General  Shafter ;  8.  Major-General  Brooke;  9.  Major-General  Henry ;  10.  Rear- Admiral  Belknap  ;  11. 
Marshall  Field.  

MARSHALL  FIELD, 

Philanthropist  and  Merchant. 

AM  a  friend  to  Christianity ;  I  believe  that  Christianity  is  the 
friend  to  mankind.  My  belief  extends  to  the  Supreme  Being, 
to  the  Divinity  of  Christ,  and  the  surpassing  potency  of  Chris- 
tianity as  a  civilizing  influence. 

The  Christian  Herald,  of  New  York,  June  14, 1899,  published  the  following  list  of  repre- 
sentative Americans,  who  replied  emphatically  "  Yes  "  to  the  questions  subscribed  to  above 
by  Marshall  Field:  United  States  Senators— W.  V.  Allen,  Nebraska;  W.  B.  Allison,  Iowa ; 
Marion  Butler,  North  Carolina;  C.  J.  Faulkner,  West  Virginia ;  J.  H.  Gallinger,  New 
Hampshire ;  Eugene  Hale,  Maine ;  H.  C.  Hansbrough,  North  Dakota;  J.  K.  Jones,  Arkan- 
sas; R.  R.  Kenney,  Delaware;  W.E.Mason,  Illinois;  H.  D.  Money,  Mississippi;  J.  T. 
Morgan,  Alabama;  G.  W.  McBride.  Oregon;  J.  H.  McLauren,  South  Carolina;  Samuel 
Pasco,  Florida,  and  Boies  Penrose,  Pennsylvania.  .  .  .  Major-Generals — J.  R.  Brooks 
and  W.  R.  Shafter.  .  .  .  Brigadier-Generals — G.  V.  Henry  and  others.  .  .  .  Post- 
master-General C.  E.  Smith;  Attorney-General  J.  W.  Griggs;  Surgeon-General  G.  N.  Stern- 
berg; Inspector-General  J.  C.  Breckinridge;  Adjutant-General  H.  C.  Corbin  ;  Secretary  of 
Treasury  L.  J.  Gage,  and  Secretary  of  Agriculture  James  Wilson. — By  permission  of  The 
Christian  Herald,  New  York. 


530  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

Since  this  book  has  grown  to  such  surprising  proportions,  at 
least  sufficient  to  confute  this  notion  for  all  time,  the  Author, 
out  of  high  regard  for  Christian  women,  as  well  as  their  unique 
prestige,  has  given  them  equal  and  rightful  suffrage  in  "A 
CLOUD  OF  WITNESSES." 

ISABELLA  Mcdonald  ALDEN,  '* Pansy,"  Author- 
ess; It  was  not  enough  for  me  to  believe  in  Christ  as  a 
Saviour.  I  must  choose  Christ  as  my  Saviour.  It  is  now 
nearly  half  a  century  since   I  gave  my  heart  to  Him. 

MARIE  ANTOINETTE,  Wife  of  Louis XVI.  of  France: 
I  sincerely  ask  pardon  of  God  for  all  the  errors  I  have  com- 
mitted during  my  life.  I  hope  in  His  kindness  He  will 
accept  my  last  vows,  as  well  as  those  I  have  long  since  made, 
that  He  may  vouchsafe  and  receive  my  soul  in  His  mercy. 

MARY  ARDEN,  Mother  of  Shakespeare:  Biography 
records  that  she  taught  her  son  from  a  child  the  Holy  Scrip- 
tures, which  have  done  more  to  unfold  the  literary  genius  of 
the  Anglo-Saxon  than  all  other  influences  put  together. 

ANNA  LETITIA  BARBAULD,  English  Poetess: 
To  thee,  my  Saviour  and  my  King, 

Glad  homage  let  me  give ; 
And  stand  prepared  like  Thee  to  die, 
With  Thee  that  I  may  live ! 

AMELIA  E.  BARR,  Authoress:  I  not  only  believe 
in  God  the  Father  Almighty,  maker  of  heaven  and  earth, 
and  in  Jesus  Christ  His  only  Son,  and  my  Redeemer,  and 
surety  for  life  everlasting,  I  believe  equally  also  in  the  Holy 
Ghost  proceeding  from  the  Father  and  Son,  and  one  and  in- 
divisible with  them.  And  I  see  in  this  Triune  God  no  diffi 
culty  to  cause  me  one  moment's  doubt. 

LEAH  MENDELSSOHN  BARTHOLDY:  We  have 
educated  you  in  the  Christian  religion,  because  it  is  the  faith 
of  most  civilized  people.  By  pronouncing  your  confession  of 
faith  you  have  obtained  the  name  of  Christian. —  To  her  son^ 
Mendelssohn  Bartholdy,  the  German  composer. 


A  CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  53I 

MRS.  SARAH  K.  BOLTON,  Authoress :  Those  children 
are  fortunate  who  are  taught  early  by  their  mothers,  hymns 
and  Bible  verses,  as  my  mother  taught  me.  The  little  book, 
"Come  to  Jesus,"  convinced  me  to  confess  Christ  as  my 
Saviour  and  unite  with  the  Church. 

JANE  BOTHWICK,  Scottish  Poet  and  Hymn-Trans- 
lator :  Rest,  spirit  free  ! 

In  the  green  pastures  of  the  heavenly  shore 
Where  sin  and  sorrow  can  approach  no  more, 
With  all  the  flock  of  the  good  Shepherd  fed, 
Besides  the  streams  of  life  eternal  led, 
Forever  with  thy  God,  the  Saviour  blest. 
Rest,  sweetly  rest ! 

MARGARET  BOTTOME,  Authoress :  I  want  the  mind 
that  was  in  Christ,  who  made  Himself  of  no  reputation  and 
became  a  servant.  Yes;  "He  was  wounded  for  our  trans- 
gression; He  was  bruised  for  our  iniquities;  the  chastise- 
ment of  our  peace  was  laid  on  Him,  and  with  His  stripes 
we  are  healed." 

COUNTESS  OF  BRIDGEWATER,  Daughter  of  the 
Duke  of  Marlborough :  Grant  we  may  live  in  love  and  peace 
together  till  death  shall  make  a  yet  larger  separation;  all 
which,  in  all  humility  of  soul,  I  beg  of  Thee  in  the  name  and 
for  the  sake  of  Jesus,  my  Saviour,  and  yours.     Amen. 

CHARLOTTE  BRONTE,  English  Novelist :  I  am  ready 
for  a  sure  and  certain  hope  of  the  resurrection  to  eternal  life 
through  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

ELIZABETH  BARRETT  BROWNING,  English  Poet- 
ess :  My  God,  my  Lord,  my  Christ, 

As  Thou  saidest  not,  *'  Depart," 
To  that  suppliant  from  her  heart. 
Scorn  me  not,  O  Word,  that  art 
The  gentlest  one  of  all  words  said ! 


Nothing  hidden  but  appears 
In  Thy  knowledge,  O  Divine, 
O  Creator,  Saviour  mine  ! 


532  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

MARGARET  CARLYLB,  Mother  of  Thomas  Carlyle: 
In  her  concern  about  the  religious  welfare  of  her  son  she  ad- 
dressed him  these  words:  *'I  beg  you,  with  all  the  feelings 
of  an  affectionate  mother,  that  you  study  the  Word  of  God, 
which  He  has  graciously  put  into  our  hands,  that  it  may 
powerfully  reach  our  hearts,  that  we  may  discern  it  in  its 
true  light.     Do  make  Christianity  your  great  study,  Tom." 

PHOEBE  GARY,  Poetess: 

Yea,  crucified  Redeemer,  who  didst  give 

Thy  toil.  Thy  tears,  Thy  life,  that  we  might  live, 

Thy  spirit  grant  that  we 

Might  live  one  day  for  Thee ! 

MRS.  ELIZABETH  CHARLES,  Author  of  ** Chronicles 
of  the  Schonberg-Cotta  Family":  Christianity,  in  all  the 
unfathomable  depths  of  its  love  and  peace,  steals  softly  into 
hearts  so  surrounded  with  its  loveliest  fruits.  They  breathe 
in  new  faith  in  goodness,  in  happiness,  in  Christ  the  Re- 
deemer and  Healer. 

LADY  CHATHAM,  Wife  of  Lord  Chatham,  the  great 
Commoner :  Advanced  age  and  the  sense  of  increasing  in- 
firmities admonish  me  that  soon  I  shall  exchange  this  earthly 
dwelling  for  one  which,  by  the  merits  and  through  the  mer- 
ciful mediation  of  Jesus  Christ,  our  Saviour,  shall  be  in  the 
blessed  heaven. —  To  her  son^   William  Pitt. 

DINAH  MULOCH  CRAIG,  Author  of  "John  Halifax, 
Gentleman" : 

God  rest  ye  all  good  Christians ;  upon  this  blessed  morn 
The  Lord  of  all  good  Christians  was  of  a  woman  born ; 
Now  all  your  sorrows  He  doth  heal,  your  sins  be  taken  away; 
For  Jesus  Christ,  our  Saviour,  was  born  on  Christmas  day! 

FANNIE  CROSBY,  the  Blind  Hymn-writer: 
All  the  way  my  Saviour  leads  me; 

What  have  I  to  ask  beside  ? 
Can  I  doubt  His  tender  mercy. 

Who  through  life  has  been  my  guide  ? 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  533 

MRS.  JOHN  W.  DANIEL,  Wile  of  the  Senator  from 
Virginia:  Christianity  is  the  only  religion  that  teaches 
selfish  man  to  regard  the  rights  of  the  poor  and  weak  as  equal 
to  the  rights  of  the  rich  and  powerful.  I  declare  my  ab- 
solute faith  in  the  Divinity  of  Jesus  Christ. 

MRS.  WILLIAM  J.  DEBOE,  Wife  of  the  Senator  from 
Kentucky :  Christianity  softens,  purifies,  ennobles  and  ele- 
vates a  person  as  nothing  else  can  do.  And  what  is  true  of 
the  individual  is  true  of  the  nation.  I  believe  in  God  and  in 
Jesus  Christ,  our  Divine  Lord. 

MADAME  DE  STAEL,  French  Authoress:  I  desire 
no  other  evidence  of  the  truth  of  Christianity  than  the  Lord's 
Prayer. 

MRS.  THOMAS  ALVA  EDISON,  Wife  of  the  Electri- 
cian: *'By  their  fruits  ye  shall  know  them!''  Judging 
from  this  standard  there  can  be  no  refutation  of  the  state- 
ment that  Christianity  is  the  mightiest  influence  in  the  world 
to-day.  God  the  Father,  God  the  Son,  and  God  the  Holy 
Ghost,  is  embraced  by  my  creed. 

ELIZABETH,  first  Countess  of  Bridgewater:  I  come 
with  a  knowledge  of  my  own  sin  to  Thee,  my  Saviour,  who 
may  well  be  named  my  Saviour,  who,  by  Thy  death  and 
passion,  hast  saved  me ! 

ELIZABETH,  Queen  of  England : 

Christ  was  the  Word  that  spake  it; 
He  took  the  bread  and  brake  it; 
And  what  that  Word  did  make  it, 
That  I  beHeve  and  take  it. 

MRS.  W.  H.  ELLERBE,  Wife  of  the  South  Carolina 
Governor:  All  nature  proves  that  God  is  the  supreme,  over- 
ruling force  in  this  and  all  other  worlds.  The  millions  of 
those  who  have  experienced  the  peace  which  a  trust  in  Him 
engenders  is  the  indubitable  proof  of  the  Divinity  of  our 
Lord  and  Saviour,  Jesus  Christ. 


534  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 


Mrs.  Julia  D.  Grant.  Miss  Helen  M.  Gould. 

MRS.  J.  ELLEN  FOSTER,  Platform  Orator:  It  is  the 
testimony  of  world-wide  travel,  observation  and  history  that 
in  proportion  as  Christianity  wins  its  way,  men  and  women 
rise  physically,  mentally  and  morally,  children  are  blessed, 
the  home  is  glorified  as  a  sacred  shrine,  the  old  are  tenderly 
cared  for,  and  the  unfortunate  are  guarded  from  harm.  In 
this  faith  I  was  born  and  reared.  My  father  preached  it 
among  the  hills  of  New  England,  and  my  mother  lived  it 
^mid  the  burdens  and  joys  of  family  life.  I  have  taught  this 
faith  to  my  sons  and  daughters  and  expect  to  leave  to  them 
the  testimony  my  mother,  dying,  gave  to  me. 

ELIZABETH  FRY,  English  Philanthropist:  When  the 
end  comes,  through  the  fullness  of  the  love  of  Christ,  and  the 
abundance  of  His  merits,  I  shall  join  those  who,  after  they 
have  passed  through  great  tribulation,  are  forever  at  rest 
with  Jesus,  for  they  have  washed  their  robes  and  made  them 
white  in  the  blood  of  the  Lamb. 

MRS.  LYMAN  J.  GAGE,  Wife  of  Secretary  of  Treas- 
ury :  True  civilization  has  progressed  so  far  as,  in  private 
and  national  life,  the  principles  of  the  Golden  Rule  and  the 
Sermon  on  the  Mount  are  acted  upon.  These  Divine  princi- 
ples are  the  most  perfect  yet  stated  as  ideals  of  spiritual  life. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  535 

ELIZABETH,  Duchess  of  Gordon :  God  the  Sovereign 
and  Judge,  God  the  Creator,  without  whom  nothing  was 
made  that  is  made,  is  God  the  Saviour,  Immanuel,  the  Lamb 
slain,  from  the  foundation  of  the  world.  No  tongue  can  tell 
the  goodness  of  the  Lord.  He  is  letting  me  get  glimpses 
both  of  His  love  and  His  glory  in  the  face  of  Jesus  Christ, 
such  as   I  have  never  had  before. 

HELEN  MILLER  GOULD,  Philanthropist.  —  The 
Christian  Herald^  of  New  York,  in  its  Easter  issue  of  1900, 
obtained  answers  from  several  leading  women  of  America, 
some  of  which  may  be  found  in  these  pages,  to  these  ques- 
tions: *'Do  you  believe  Christianity  is  a  masterful  influence 
in  civilizing  humanity?  Does  your  belief  extend  to  the 
recognition  of  the  Divinity  of  Jesus  Christ?"  Miss  Gould 
responded  thus:  "To  these  questions  I  can  reply  very 
heartily  in  the  affirmative,  and  I  believe,  too,  there  is  in 
Christianity  a  power  that  can  make  the  humblest  life  digni- 
fied, beautiful  and  noble." 

MRS.  JULIA  DENT  GRANT,  Relict  of  the  late  Presi- 
dent Grant:  What  would  we  do  in  this  changing  world 
without  the  religion  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  to  keep,  com- 
fort and  sustain  us?  It  is  the  greatest  thing  in  the  world; 
nothing  else  compares  with  it,  and  it  is  the  one  influence, 
above  all  others,  that  civilizes  humanity,  and  that  will  bring 
ultimate  peace  on  earth  and  good  will  to  men.  From  my  in- 
fancy I  was  taught  to  reverence  the  God  of  my  forefathers; 
my  honored  husband  was  actuated  by  the  same  belief,  and 
I  can  scarcely  understand  why  anyone  should  doubt  the  re- 
ality of  the  Christian  faith.  I  certainly  believe  in  God  the 
Father,  God  the  Son,  and  God  the  Holy  Spirit. 

LADY  JANE  GREY,  English  Noblewoman.— This  is 
taken  from  the  letter  to  her  father  just  before  she  was  be- 
headed: '*My  death  is  at  hand,  although  to  you  it  seems 
woeful,  yet  to  me  there  is  nothing  that  can  be  more  welcome 
than  from  this  vale  of  misery  to  aspire  to  that  heavenly 


536  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

throne  of  all  joy  and  pleasure  with  Christ,  my  Saviour,  in 
whose  steadfast  faith  the  Lord  hath  hitherto  strengthened 
you,  so  continue  to  keep  you,  that  at  the  last  we  may  meet 
in  heaven,  with  the  Father,  Son,  and  Holy  Ghost!" 

JEANNE  MARIE  GUYON,   French  Authoress: 
I  am  poor,  oblation  I  have  none, 
None  for  a  Saviour,  but  Himself  alone ; 
Whatever  I  render  Thee,  from  Thee  it  came ; 
Oh  vain  attempt  to  expunge  the  mighty  score ! 
The  more  I  pay,  I  owe  Thee  still  the  more ! 

In  Thy  hands,  O  God,  I  leave  my  soul,  not  relying  for  my 
salvation  on  any  good  that  is  in  me,  but  solely  on  Thy 
merits  and  the  merits  and  suffering  of  my  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 
— From  her  last  wilL 

MARION  HARLAND,  Authoress:  Christianity  is  the 
only  hope  of  lost  humanity.  I  believe  most  emphatically  in 
the  Lord  of  Hosts  and  in  the  Divinity  of  Jesus  Christ. 

MRS.  ANNA  SYMMES  HARRISON,  Wife  of  Presi- 
dent William  Henry  Harrison :  And  now  what  shall  I  say 
to  these  things:  Only  *'be  still  and  know  that  I  am  God." 
You  will  not  fail  to  pray  for  me  and  my  dear  son  and  daugh- 
ter who  are  left.  For  I  have  no  wish  for  my  children  and 
grandchildren  than  to  see  them  followers  of  our  Lord  Jesus. 

FRANCIS  RIDLEY  HAVERGAL,  English  Poetess: 
Oh,  what  vanity  to  rest  on  our  own  obedience  for  salvation; 
any  merit  of  our  own  takes  away  the  glory  of  the  atoning 
blood.  "Unto  Him  that  loved  us,  and  washed  us  from  our 
sins  in  His  own  blood,"  that's  it!  It  is  the  Lord  Jesus  who 
is  so  dear  to  me. 

MRS.  JOHN  HAY,  Wife  of  the  Secretary  of  State:  As 
a  child,  I  was  taught  that  God  was  my  Heavenly  Father, 
and  that  through  His  Son,  salvation  was  brought  into  the 
world.     As  I  have  grown  older,  this  belief  has  become  the 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES.  537 

underlying  foundation  of  my  life,  and  experience  has  taught 
me  that  Christianity  is  not  only  the  friend  of  mankind,  but 
is  also  the  dominating  influence  in  the  civilization  of  the 
world. 

MRS.  IvUCY  WEBB  HAYES,  Wife  of  President  Hayes: 
Beside  Jesus  Christ,  there  is  no  other  Saviour.  He  is  the 
Alpha  and  Omega  of  my  salvation. 

FELICIA  DOROTHEA  HEMANS,    English    Poetess: 
Redeemer !     Son  of  Man.     Shed  on  our  spirits 
The  faith  and  deep  submissiveness  of  Thine ! 
Thou  that  didst  love  !     Thou  that  didst  weep  and  die — 
Thou  that  didst  rise  a  victor  glorified ! 
Conqueror !     Thou  Son  of  God ! 

MRS.  DAVID  B.  HENDERSON,  Wife  of  the  Speaker 
of  the  House  of  Representatives:  It  seems  to  me  that  every 
thoughtful  person  must  concede  the  Divinity  of  Jesus  Christ, 
and  no  one  can  contest  the  universal  influence  of  Christianity 
in  civilizing  humanity. 

MARIETTA  HOLLEY,  *'Josiah  Allen's  Wife,''  Auth- 
oress:  The  Divine  reality  and  constant  presence  of  the  ever- 
living  and  ever-loving  Saviour  has  been  and  is  my  help  and 
consolation ;  and  the  Book  of  His  revealed  life  and  will  my 
greatest  treasure.  I  believe  in  God  the  Father  Almighty, 
and  in  His  Son,  Jesus  Christ,  my  Lord. 

MRS.  JULIA  WARD  HOWE,  Authoress:  I  first  re- 
ceived  Christianity  in  the  way  natural  to  one  of  my  birth 
and  education.  I  have  since  been  called  upon  to  confront 
the  topic  in  many  ways.  ...  I  must  say  that  the 
earlier  view  is  that  which  I  hold  to  most,  namely,  of  the 
Divine  Being,  whose  word  was  judgment,  whose  brief  career 
on  earth  ended  in  sacrifice,  whose  purity  and  pathos  had 
much  to  do  with  the  redemption  of  the  human  race. 


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Mrs.  Ida  McKinley. 


MARY  HOWITT,  English  Authoress: 
Ivisten,  all  ye  Christian  people, 

Let  no  fears  your  soul  dismay ; 
God's  own  Son,  the  Lord,  the  Saviour, 

He  was  born  on  Christmas  day. 

COUNTESS  HUNTINGTON,  English  Philanthropist : 
I  have  enjoyed  intimate  fellowship  with  the  Father  and  the 
Son.  The  Holy  Ghost  has  witnessed  with  my  spirit  that  I 
am  His  child. 

JEAN  INGELOW,  English  Poetess: 

But  look,  the  Saviour  blest, 

Calm  after  solemn  rest, 
Stands  in  the  garden  'neath  His  olive  boughs; 

The  earliest  smile  of  day 

Doth  on  His  vesture  play, 
And  light  the  majesty  of  His  still  brows. 

MRS.  HELEN  HUNT  JACKSON,   Poetess  and  Auth- 
oress :  Mother,  I  see  you  with  the  nursery  light, 
Leading  your  babies,  all  in  white, 

To  their  sweet  rest; 
Christ,  the  good  Shepherd,  bears  mine  to-night, 
And  that  is  best. 

Note.— To  Lady  Huntington,  I^ord  Buchan  said,  the  day  of  his  death:  "I  have  no 
foundation  of  hope  whatever  but  in  the  sacrifice  of  the  Son  of  God.  My  confidence  in 
Him  is  firm  as  a  rock." 


A   CLOUD    OF  WITNESSES.  539 

I  cannot  help  tears,  when  I  see  them  twine 

Their  fingers  in  yours,  and  their  bright  curls  shine 

On  your  warm  breast ; 
But  the  Saviour's  is  purer  than  yours  or  mine, 

He  can  love  best. 

MRS.  RACHEL  JACKSON,  Wife  of  President  Jackson : 
How  few  real  Christian  helpers  there  are.  But  blessed  be 
God,  He  has  even  a  few  that  are  bold  in  declaring  their  faith 
in  Christ,  our  Lord. 

JANE,  QUEEN  OF  NAVARRE,  Daughter  of  Henry 
H.,  King  of  Navarre :  I  doubt  not  that  God  Himself  will 
be  their  Father  and  Protector,  as  He  has  ever  been  in  my 
greatest  afflictions.  I,  therefore,  commit  my  children  to  His 
government  and  fatherly  care.  I  believe  that  Christ  is  my 
only  Mediator  and  Saviour,  and  I  look  for  salvation  in  no 
other. 

MRS.  RICHARD  R.  KENNEY,  Wife  of  the  Senator 
from  Delaware:  I  believe  in  the  Fatherhood  of  God,  and  in 
the  Divinity  of  Jesus  Christ,  His  Son,  my  Saviour. 

BARONESS  VON  KRUDENER,  Wife  of  a  Russian 
Diplomat,  Authoress  of  Valerie :  That  which  I  have  done 
well  remains;  that  which  I  have  done  wrong  the  mercy  of 
God  will  efface.  I  have  nothing  else  to  offer  to  God  or  to 
man  but  my  sins,  but  the  blood  of  Chirst  cleanseth  from  all 
sin. 

MRS.  JAMES  H.  KYLE,  Wife  of  the  Senator  from 
South  Dakota:  I  believe  in  the  Fatherhood  of  God,  the 
Divinity  of  His  Son.  Who  is  Jesus  Christ?  He  who  fed  the 
hungry,  visited  the  sick,  and  raised  the  dead.  Who  are 
Christ's?     Every  one  that  loveth  is  born  of  God. 

SILVIO  PELLICO,  Italian  Dramatist  (i  788-1854) :  Did  the  best  of 
men,  the  God-man,  disdain  to  cast  His  compassionate  looks  upon  sinful 
women?  Why,  then,  should  we  so  much  dispise  a  woman  who  has  fallen 
into  ignominy? — Vol.XXVIII^  ^'  Library  oj  the  World's  Best  Literature.'''' 


540  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

LUCY  LARCOM,  Poetess: 

In  Christ  I  touch  the  hand  of  God, 

From  His  pure  height  reached  down, 
By  blessed  ways  before  untrod, 

To  lift  us  to  our  crown  ; 
Victory  that  only  perfect  is 
Through  loving  sacrifice  like  His. 

JENNY  LIND,  Swedish  Vocalist:  What  is  the  whole 
miserable  earthly  life  worth  in  comparison  to  one  single 
glance  at  the  sinless  Holy  Saviour !  He  alone — and  surely 
nothing  else — is  the  goal  of  our  intense  longing,  whether  we 
know  it  or  not.  If  I  can  become  the  last  chorister  of  heav- 
en, I  shall  rejoice  with  holiest  joy ! 

SARAH  J.  C.  LIPPINCOTT  (Grace  Greenwood): 

Oh,  let  thy  lays  prolong  that  angel  singing 

Girdling  with  music  our  Redeemer's  star, 
And  breathe  God's  peace  to  earth's  glad  tidings  bringing 

From  the  new  heavens,  of  old  so  dim  and  fair. 

MRS.  MARY  A.  LIVERMORE,  Reformer:  I  believe 
most  firmly  that  God  is  in  the  world  *'a  Person  not  of  our- 
selves, working  Righteousness";  in  Christianity  as  the  only 
Divine  religion,  whose  cardinal  doctrines  are  practical  love 
to  God  and  love  to  man,  and  in  Christ  who  came  *'to  save 
the  people  from  their  sins." 

LOUISA  HENRIETTA,  Electress  of  Brandeburg, 
Mother  of  Frederick  I.,  King  of  Prussia: 

Jesus,  my  Redeemer,  lives, 

Christ,  my  trust,  is  dead  no  more ! 

In  the  strength  this  knowledge  gives. 
Shall  not  all  my  fears  be  o'er  ? 

MRS.  ELIZABETH  T.  LOWNDES,  Wife  pf  the  Mary- 
land  Governor:  China,  India,  Africa,  Japan,  and  many 
islands  of  the  sea,  are  an  evidence  of  what  progress  civiliza- 
tion takes  without  Christ  and  the  Bible. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  541 

MARY  IvYON,  Founder  of  Holyoke  Seminary :  I  trust 
ihat  this  is  of  the  Lord,  and  that  He  will  prosper  it.  In  this 
movement  I  have  thought  much  more  constantly  and  have 
felt  much  more  deeply  about  domg  that  which  shall  be  for 
the  honor  of  Christ  and  for  the  salvation  of  souls  than  I 
ever  did  in  any  step  of  my  life. 

MRS.  JOHN  McLAUREN,  Wife  of  the  Governor  from 
South  Carolina:  I  believe  that  the  highest  type  of  human- 
ity can  only  be  developed  by  the  influence  of  Christianity. 
How  could  there  be  a  Christian  religion  without  a  belief  in 
God  and  the  Divinity  of  Jesus  Christ? 

MRS.  BENTON  MdMILLIN,  Wife  of  the  Tennessee 
Governor:  I  believe  that  Christianity  has  given  friends  to 
the  friendless  and  homes  to  the  homeless.  It  is  the  only 
system  of  religion  that  provides  alleviation  for  the  sufferings 
of  humanity,  and  offers  consolation  to  the  mourner.  We  have 
but  to  compare  our  happy  lot  with  that  of  the  unfortunate 
women  of  heathen  lands,  where  the  bright  and  morning  Star 
of  Christianity  does  not  shed  its  beneficent  light. 

MARGARET,  DUCHESS  OF  ALENCON,  Sister  of 
Francis  I.,  of  France:  You  ask  me  to  do  a  very  difficult 
thing — 'to  invent  a  diversion  that  will  drive  away  ennui.  I 
have  been  seeking  all  my  life  to  effect  this,  but  I  have  found 
only  one  remedy,  which  is  reading  the  Holy  Scriptures. 
There  I  see  and  contemplate  the  will  of  God,  which  sent  His 
Son  to  us  on  earth  to  preach  that  Holy  Word,  and  to  an- 
nounce the  sweet  tidings  of  salvation,  and  to  Extinguish  our 
debts  by  giving  His  Son,  who  loved  us  and  died  for  us. 

MARGUERITE  DE  VALOIS,  Queen  of  Navarre: 
I  love,  but  in  the  world  no  more, 

Nor  in  gay  liall  or  festal  bower  ; 
Not  the  fair  forms  I  prized  before, 

But  Him,  all  wisdom,  beauty,  power, 
My  Saviour,  who  has  cast  a  chain 
On  sin  and  ill  and  woe  and  pain ! 


542 


A    CLOUD    OF    WiTNEvSSES. 


Lady  Somerset. 


Francis  E.  Willard. 


MARY,  Queen  of  Scots. — The  following  original  verse 
was  repeated  by  the  queen  just  before  her  execution : 

In  this  last  tremendous  hour, 
My  L^ord  !  my  Saviour !    I  invoke  Thy  power ; 
In  the  sad  pangs  of  anguish  and  of  death, 
Receive,  O  lyord,  Thy  suppliant's  breath. 
Before  Thy  hallowed  cross  she  prostrate  lies, 
O  hear  her  prayers  !  commiserate  her  sighs  ! 
Extend  the  arms  of  mercy  and  of  love, 
And  bear  her  to  the  peaceful  realms  above ! 

MRS.  WILLIAM  MASON,  Wife  of  the  Senator  from 
Illinois:  I  do  believe  that  Christianity  is  a  powerful  factor 
in  our  civilization.  I  recognize,  not  only  the  Divinity  of 
Jesus  Christ,  but  also  the  progressive  incarnation  of  God  in 
the  life  of  humanity. 


MATILDA,  of  Scotland,  Queen  of  Henry  L  :  Praise  and 
blessing  be  to  Thee,  Almighty  God,  that  Thou  has  been 
pleased  to  make  me  endure  so  bitter  anguish  in  the  hour  of 
my  departure,  thereby,  as  I  trust,  to  purify  me  in  some 
measure  from  the  corruption  of  my  sins.  And  Thou,  O 
Lord  Jesus  Christ,  who,  through  the  will  of  the  Father,  hast 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  543 

given  life  to  the  world  by  Thy  death,  deliver  me! — Her  ex- 
piring words  on  heariiig  that  her  husband  and  son  were  slain 
in  battle, 

ELIZABETH  M.  N.  MEAD,  President  of  Mount  Hol-^ 
yoke  College:  Christ  is  woman's  best  Friend,  and  the  onl/ 
Friend  who  can  restore  in  time  the  Divine  image  lost  by  sin. 
I  subscribe  to  a  firm  belief  in  the  Divinity  of  Jesus  Christ. 

MRS.  H.  D.  MONEY,  Wife  of  the  Senator  from  Mississip- 
pi :  God  is  my  Father,  Christ  my  Redeemer,  and  the  Holy 
Spirit  my  Comforter.  I  rejoice  to  be  able  to  give  my  testi- 
mony— and  I  speak  from  long  experience — of  the  help  and 
strength  I  have  received  from  my  faith. 

HANNAH  MORE,  English  Authoress:  Christianity 
bears  all  the  marks  of  a  Divine  original ;  it  came  down  from 
heaven,  and  its  gracious  purpose  is  to  carry  us  up  hither. 
Its  Author  is  God;  it  was  foretold  by  the  beginning  from 
prophecies,  which  grew  clearer  and  brighter,  as  they  ap- 
proached  the  period  of  their  accomplishment.  It  was  con- 
firmed by  miracles,  which  continued  till  the  religion  they 
illustrated  was  established.  It  was  ratified  by  the  blood  of 
its. Author;  its  doctrines  are  pure,  sublime,  consistent;  its 
precepts  holy  and  just ;  its  worship  is  spiritual ;  its  service 
reasonable.  Christ  is  our  sanctification,  as  well  as  our  re- 
demption. 

MADAME  NECKER,  Mother  of  Madame  De  Stael :  I 
live,  it  is  true,  in  the  midst  of  a  great  number  of  atheists, 
but  their  arguments  have  never  touched  my  mind,  and  if 
they  have  at  all  come  in  contact  with  my  heart,  they  have 
only  caused  it  to  shudder  with  horror.  ...  I  was  pres- 
ent at  the  death-bed  of  the  well-known  naturalist,  Buffon, 
and  it  was  a  great  consolation  to  hear  from  his  lips  a  firm 
confession  in  Jesus  Christ  as  the  Divine  Ssiviour—' See  page  32- 


544  ^   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES. 


Jean  Mrs.  Florence  Harriet  Madame 

Ingelow.  Browning.  NigHtingale.  B.  Stowe.  De  Stael. 

FLORENCE  NIGHTINGALE,  English  Philanthropist: 
Christianity  is  to  see  God  in  everything  in  the  order  of  His 
laws,  as  of  His  moral  and  spiritual,  so  of  His  political  or 
social  worlds.  To  Christ,  God  was  everything,  to  us  He  is 
the  Divine  Saviour. 

MARGARET  WILSON  OLIPHANT,  English  Novelist : 
When  we  descend  the  course  of  the  ages  and  come  to  a  still 
more  glorious  history,  it  is  Jerusalem  still  which  is  the  scene 
of  tragedy  and  triumph,  of  the  greatest  and  divinest  Life 
which  was  ever  lived  among  men. 

KATHERINE  PARR,  Sixth  Queen  of  Henry  VIII; 
I  expect  you  to  study  and  apply  those  doctrines  as  a  means 
of  attaining  and  settling  forth  the  four  Gospels,  that  it  may 
not  be  said  against  you  in  evidence  at  the  tribunal  of  God 
how  you  were  ashamed  of  Christ's  doctrines. 

MRS.  GEORGE  C.  PERKINS,  Wife  of  the  Senator 
from  California:  Pure  Christianity  as  taught  by  Jesus 
Christ  of  Nazareth,  Bethlehem,  Gethsemane  and  Calvary  I 
believe  in.  When  man  learns  to  walk  by  the  Light,  then 
will  all  these  so-called  mysteries  be  solved  to  his  satisfaction. 

MRS.  EDMUND  WINSTON  PETTUS,  Wife  of  the 
Senator  from  Alabama:  By  the  grace  of  God,  I  am  a  friend 
to  Christianity  and  a  firm  believer  in  the  Lord  Jesus  Chirst 
and  His  Divinity. 

ELIZABETH  STUART  PHELPS,  Authoress:  Chris- 
tianity  is  absolutely  the  strongest  influence  in  civilizing  hu- 
manity. There  is  not  a  shadow  of  a  doubt  in  my  mind  as 
to  the  existence  of  God  and  the  Divinity  of  Jesus  Christ. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  545 

MRS.  LLBWBLI.YN  POWERS,  Wife  of  the  Maine 
Governor :  The  argument  is  sometimes  advanced  that  civ- 
ilization brought  the  world  to  its  present  state,  but  history 
teaches  us  that  civilization  without  God  does  not  stand  the 
test  of  time.  God  the  Father,  God  the  Son,  and  God  the 
Holy  Ghost,  embrace  my  religious  convictions. 

MRS.  W.  A.  POYNTER,  Wife  of  the  Nebraska  Gov- 
ernor: Christianity  is  the  basis  of  the  highest  civilization 
the  world  has  ever  seen.  I  believe  most  assuredly  in  God 
the  Father,  God  the  Son,  and  God  the  Holy  Ghost. 

ELIZABETH  PRENTISS,  Authoress:  Dying  grace  is 
not  usually  given  till  it  is  needed.  Death  to  the  disciple  of 
Jesus  is  only  stepping  from  one  room  into  another  of  our 
Father's  house. 

MRS.  JETER  C.  PRITCHARD,Wifeof  the  Senator  from 
North  Carolina:  I  believe  in  Christianity  as  the  best  and 
greatest  good  for  all ;  that  the  Christianity  whose  Author  is 
Divine  can  alone  fully  civilize  man  and  fit  him  for  two  worlds. 

ADELAIDE  ANNE  PROCTOR,  English  Poetess: 
Somewhere  in  God's  wide  world, 
Rest  there  must  be. 
Within  thy  Saviour's  heart 

Place  all  thy  care, 
And  learn,  O  weary  soul, 

Thy  rest  is  there. 

QUEEN  ALEXANDRA,  Wife  of  Edward  VII.,  King 
of  England  and  Ireland,  and  Emperor  of  India:  My  hus- 
band being,  thank  God,  somewhat  better,  I  am  coming  to 
church.  I  must  leave,  I  fear,  before  the  service  is  con- 
cluded, that  I  may  watch  by  his  side.  Can  you  not  say  a 
few  words  of  prayer  in  the  early  part  of  the  service  that  I 
may  join  with  you  in  prayer  in  the  name  of  our  Redeemer 
for  my  husband  ? — To  the  Clergyman  of  the  Church  at  Sand- 
ringham. 


546  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

QUEEN  ANNE,  of  Denmark:  I  renounce  my  own 
merits,  and  only  rely  on  my  Saviour  Christ,  who  has  re- 
deemed my  soul  and  body.  —  Her  Last  Words, 

QUEEN  LOUISE,  of  Prussia,  Wife  of  Friedrich  Wil- 
helm. — When  dying,  she  murmured  a  few  words  of  some 
hymn  learned  in  childhood,  faintly  thanking  God  for  each 
solace  sent  her.  Her  last  words  were:  "I  can  never  be 
miserable  while  faith  in  God  is  open  to  me.  Only  death  can 
help  me!     Lord  Jesus,  shorten  my  life. 


M 


QUEEN-MOTHER,  MARIE  DE  MEDICIS.— Written 
from  her  sick  bed  to  her  daughter,  Henrietta  Marie,  Queen 
of  England:  "Never  listen  to,  or  suffer  to  be  said  in  your 
presence,  ought  in  contradiction  to  your  belief  in  God  and 
in  His  only  Son,  your  Lord  and  Redeemer. 

LADY  RUSSELL,  Wife  of  Lord  William  Russell,  who 
was  executed  (Testimony,  page  387) :  Believe  the  Word  of 
God,  the  Holy  Scriptures!  What  most  hinders  faith  is 
ignorance  of  God's  true  nature.  Look  up  to  the  firmament 
and  down  to  the  deep,  how  can  you  doubt  a  Divine  power? 
In  His  Gospel  the  terrors  of  God's  majesty  are  laid  aside, 
and  He  speaks  in  the  still  small  and  soft  voice  of  His  Son, 
incarnate,  the  fountain  and  spring  whence  flow  gladness. — 
To  her  son^  second  Duke  of  Bedford. 

CHRISTINA  GEORGINA  ROSSETTI,  Italian  Poetess: 

Thee  did  nails  grave  upon  thy  hands;  Thy  name 
Did  thorns  for  frontlets  stamp  between  mine  eyes ; 

I,  Holy  One,  put  on  Thy  guilt  and  shame; 
I,  God,  Priest,  Sacrifice. 

MARGARET  E.  SANGSTER,  Authoress:  Christianity 
is  the  most  vitalizing  force  in  Christendom  to-day.  With  all 
my  heart  I  believe  it  is  a  potent  influence  in  our  civilization. 
I  believe  in  God  the  Father,  and  in  Jesus  Christ  His  only 
Son,  our  Lord. 


A   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES.  547 

MRS.  MAY  WRIGHT  SEVVAI.L,  President  Interna- 
tional Council  of  Women:  I  believe  in  Christianity,  in  the 
wisdom,  the  righteousness,  the  helpfulness  of  the  teachings 
of  Christ.  The  teachings  of  our  Saviour  have  had  a  power- 
ful influence  in  subduing  and  purifying  the  human  heart. 
I  believe  in  the  Divinity  of  Christ. 

MRS.  LYDIA  H.  SIGOURNEY,  Authoress: 

The  torch,  the  flashing  sword,  the  traitor's  kiss, 
The  astonished  angel  with  the  tear  of  Heaven 
Upon  His  cheek,  still  striving  to  assuage 
Those  fearful  pangs  that  bowed  the  Son  of  God 
lyike  a  bruised  reed.     Thou  who  hast  power  to  look 
Thus  at  GethvSeraane,  be  still,  be  still ! 
Who  agonizeth  there  ?     Count  thy  brief  pains 
As  the  dust  atom  on  life's  chariot  wheels, 
And  in  a  Saviour's  grief  forget  them  all ! 

ELIZA  ROGERS  SIGSBEE,  Wife  of  Captain  Sigsbee, 
of  the  ill-fated  Maine:  I  believe  that  Jesus  Christ  is  *'God 
manifest  in  the  flesh,"  and  "in  Him  is  all  the  fullness  of 
the  Godhead  bodily."  The  Word  of  God  contains  all  that 
is  necessary  for  the  elevation  of  the  individual  and  nation. 

MRS.  CHARLES  E.  SMITH,  Wife  of  the  Postmaster- 
General  :  God  is  our  Father.  It  should  not  be  possible  to 
be  other  than  His  friend.  I  believe  that  Christianity  is  a 
masterful  influence  in  civilizing  humanity.  The  highest  civil- 
ization of  ancient  times  fell  through  the  want  of  it.  "Happy 
are  the  nations  whose  God  is  the  Lord. "  My  belief  extends 
to  the  recognition  of  a  Supreme  Being  and  the  Divinity  of 
Jesus  Christ. 

MRS.  EDWARD  C.  SMITH,  Wife  of  the  Vermont  Gov- 
ernor :  The  teachings  of  Christ  will  go  on  civilizing  and 
Christianizing  until  at  last  "every  knee  shall  bow  and  every 
tongue  confess  He  is  Lord  of  lords."  "For  there  is  one  God 
and  one  Mediator  between  God  and  man,  the  man  Christ 
Jesus." 


548  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

LADY  HENRY  SOMERSET,  President  World's  Chris- 
tian  Temperance  Union:  Christianity  and  its  Book  have 
everything  to  hope;  for  even  as  the  plains,  the  tablelands, 
the  foothills,  the  mountain  ranges,  all  conduct  alike  slowly 
ascending  to  the  loftiest  peak  of  the  Himalayas,  so  do  all 
views  of  God  tend  toward  and  culminate  in  the  character, 
the  life,  and  work  of  our  Saviour  who  said:  *'And  I,  if  I  be 
lifted  up  from  the  earth,  will  draw  all  men  unto  Me." 

MRS.  JOHN  SPOONER,  Wife  of  the  Senator  from 
Wisconsin:  The  influence  of  Christianity  is  beneficent;  it 
gives  hope  to  the  hopeless,  and  above  all,  it  makes  men  and 
women  truly  gentle  and  charitable.  I  believe  in  God,  and 
in  His  Son,  Jesus  Christ,  the  Saviour  of  the  world. 

MRS.  LELAND  STANFORD,  Founder,  with  her  hus- 
band, of  the  Leland  Stanford,  Jr.,  University,  after  her  re- 
turn from  Egypt,  said:  Only  Christianity,  I  believe,  will 
save  that  country  and  elevate  its  womanhood,  as  it  has  other 
nations  of  the  world.  For  the  university  I  desire,  above  all 
things,  that  no  student  receive  a  godless  education.  I  de-. 
sire  that  the  Divine  precepts  which  our  Saviour  gave  us 
when  He  lived  on  earth  be  taught. 

LILIAN  M.  N.  STEVENS,  President  of  the  National 
W.  C.  T.  U. :  The  great  reform  and  philanthropic  move- 
ments of  today  are  the  outcome  of  Christ's  Gospel  of  love, 
peace  and  righteousness.  The  civilizing  influence  of  the 
life  and  teachings  of  our  Redeemer  must  be  manifest  to  all 
fair-minded  people. 

MRS.  WILLIAM  STEWART,  Wife  of  the  Senator  from 
Nevada:  No  thinking  being,  who  studies  Nature,  can  fail 
to  believe  in  God,  as  I  do  most  firmly.  I  believe  in  the  Di- 
vinity of  Jesus  Christ.  How  could  I  do  otherwise,  for  to 
this  teaching  women  owe  their  lofty  position  which  they 
hold  to-day  in  the  Christian  world. 


WIVES   OF   UNITED   STATES   SENATORS. 

Mrs.  F.  E.  Warren,  Wyoming  ;  Mrs.  R.  B.  Kenney,  Delaware  ;  Mrs.  J.  C.  Burrows, 
Michigan  ;  Mrs.  H.  D.  Money,  Mississippi  ;  Mrs.  N.  B.  Scott,  West  Virginia  ;  Mrs! 
P.  J.  McCumber,  North  Dakota  ;  Mrs.  G.  Turner,  Washington  ;  Mrs.  H.  C.'nans- 
brough.  North  Dakota;  Mrs.W.  E.  Mason,  Illinois  ;  Mrs.  C.  W.  Fairbanks,  Indiana; 
Mrs.  E.  W.  Pettus,  Alabama  ;  Mrs.  S.  B.  Elkins,  West  Virginia  ;  Mrs.  J.  C.  Spooner,' 
Wisconsin  ;  Mrs.  J.  L.  McLauren,  South  Carolina  ;  Mrs.  M.  A.  Hanna,  Ohio  ;  Mrs! 
W.  P.  Frye.  Maine  ;    Mrs.  W.  J.  Deboe,  Kentucky  ;    Mrs.  A.  G.  Foster,  Washington. 


UrJIVERSITY 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  549 

LUCY  STONE,  Reformer:  I  find  comfort  and  joy  that 
Paul  himself  wrote  to  the  Galatians:  "There  is  neither 
bond  nor  free,  there  is  neither  male  nor  female;  for  ye  are 
all  one  in  Christ  Jesus. ' ' 

MRS.  WIIvIvIAM  A.  STONE,  Wife  of  the  Pennsylvania 
Governor :  The  teachings  of  Christianity  have  brought  into 
existence  the  hospital  and  homes  for  the  poor,  and  taught 
man  to  love  his  fellow-man.  My  belief  recognizes  the  Di- 
vinity of  God,  His  Son,  and  the  Holy  Spirit. 

HARRIET  BEECHER  STOWE,  Authoress:  It  seems 
to  me,  I  never  saw  so  much  beauty  in  everything  before. 
Everything  is  changed,  and  it  is  the  beauty  of  Christ  that 
has  changed  it.  You  know  I  have  always  loved  beauty 
above  all  things  in  music,  in  nature,  in  art  and  in  flowers, 
but  it  seems  to  me  that  I  see  something  in  my  risen  Saviour 
more  beautiful  than  all;  all  things  else  are  shadows  of 
beauty,  but  He  is  the  substance.  The  Bible,  too,  has 
grown  so  beautiful  to  me.  Its  words  are  full  of  the  richest, 
divinest  meaning  to  me.  There  is  no  such  thing  as  dying, 
— it  is  only  going  out  of  one  room  into  another. 

MRS.  EMMA  T.  THOMAS,  Wife  of  the  Colorado  Gov- 
ernor: My  belief  in  God  the  Father,  and  in  Jesus  Christ 
the  Son,  is  as  immovable  as  the  everlasting  hills  of  our  beau- 
tiful Centennial  State. 

MRS.  HANNAH  VAN  BUREN,  Wife  of  President 
Van  Buren :  My  children,  I  am  about  to  die.  I  give  you 
my  dying  counsel  and  blessing,  and  bid  you  farewell,  com- 
mitting myself  to  the  mercy  of  my  Saviour  in  whom  I  trust. 

MRS.  LEW  WALLACE,  Wife  of  the  Author  and  Gen- 
eral :  I  do  not  know  whether  the  nightingale  nested  among 
them  in  our  Saviour's  time,  but  I  do  know  that  the  Syrian 
bulbul  (nightingale)  has  the  loveliest  voice  of  all  God's 
creatures.     Perhaps  this  was  the  gentle  bird  that  sat  in  the 


550  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

olive  trees  in  the  garden  of  Joseph  of  Arimathea,  and  the 
night  before  the  resurrection  through  the  darkness  poured 
out  her  soul  in  the  sorrowful  plaint  above  the  still  sleeper  in 
the  new  tomb.  It  may  be  that  He  heard  the  wonderful  strain 
as  she  watched  for  the  bright  and  morning  star,  and  the 
coming  of  the  angels  to  roll  away  the  stone  and  salute  our 
Risen  Lord. 

LILLIAN  WHITING,  Authoress:  "Our  life  'is  hid 
with  Christ  in  God."  That  is,  our  real  life  is  largely  lived 
in  the  unseen  world,  and  the  more  one  is  able  to  draw  upon 
his  spiritual  power,  the  finer  and  more  important  are  his 
achievements. 

ELLA  WHEELER  WILCOX,  Authoress  and   Poetess: 

When  I  am  weak,  and  desolate,  and  lonely. 

And  prone  to  follow  wrong. 
Not  thou,  O  Science — Christ,  my  Saviour 

Can  make  me  strong. 

MARY  E.  WILKINS,  Authoress:  May  we  all  *'come 
in  the  unity  of  the  faith,  and  of  the  knowledge  of  the  Son  of 
God,  unto  a  perfect  man,  unto  the  measure  of  the  stature  of 
the  fullness  of  Christ."     (Ephesians  4:13.) 

FRANCIS  E.  WILLARD,  Temperance  Reformer:  Only 
the  Golden  Rule  of  Christ  can  bring  the  Golden  Age  of  man. 
.  There  is  for  me  no  final  rest,  except  as  I  translate 
the  concept  of  God  into  the  nomenclature  and  personality  of 
the  New  Testament.  .  .  .  Born  of  a  Christian  race, 
bred  in  a  Christian  home,  I  dedicated  myself  anew  that  day 
to  my  Saviour  and  His  Gospel.  .  .  .  Christ  alone  brought 
to  the  world  emancipating  truth ;  He  is  the  universal  solvent ; 
the  searchlight  of  the  mind  and  the  dynamo  of  that  love 
which  is  the  only  inexorable  force  on  earth.  ...  I 
have  always  believed  in  Christ;  He  is  the  incarnation  of 
God. 


A    CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES.  55I 

QUEEN  VICTORIA,  late  Queen  of  Great  Britain  and 
Empress  of  India:  "If  I  did  not  know  how  to  cast  my  bur- 
dens day  by  day  upon  my  Saviour  they  would  be  too  heavy 
for  me. ' ' 

The  Mausoleum  at  Frogmore  was  built  by  the  Queen  as 
a  place  of  sepulture  for  the  Prince-Consort  and  herself.  She 
had  this  inscription  engraved  on  the  sarcophagus: 

Farewell,  Beloved ! 
Here  at  last  I  shall 
Rest  with  Thee. 
With  Thee  in  Christ 
Shall  rise  again  ! 

A  royal  princess  visited  a  humble  cottage  at  Windsor  to 
look  at  some  rare  flowers.  Hearing  from  the  daughter  that 
her  mother  was  ill,  she  went  in  to  see  her.  The  next  day  the 
royal  carriage  drove  up,  and  Queen  Victoria  alighted.  *'0f 
course,"  said  the  daughter,  "we  were  greatly  flurried,  but 
the  Queen  exclaimed:  *  Don't  be  put  out.  I  have  come  not 
as  a  Queen,  but  as  a  Christian  lady.  Have  you  a  Bible?' 
She  was  given  one,  and  continued:  *I  have  heard  of  your 
illness  and  have  come  to  comfort  you!'  She  took  mother's 
wasted  hand  in  hers,  and  said :  '  Put  your  trust  in  Jesus,  and 
you  will  soon  be  in  a  land  where  there  is  no  more  pain.  You 
are  a  widow;  so  am  I;  we  shall  soon  meet  our  loved  ones!' 
She  then  read  the  fourteenth  chapter  of  John,  arid  knelt  on 
the  floor  and  prayed.  The  Queen  visited  my  mother  once  or 
twice  a  week,  and  always  read  the  Word  of  God  and  prayed." 

Note.— Mrs.  William  B.  Bate,  Tennessee  ;  Mrs.  Julius  C.  Burrows,  Mich- 
igan ;  Mrs.  Clarence  D.  Clark,  Wyoming ;  Mrs.  Shelby  M.  Culloni,  Illinois; 
Mrs.  Stephen  B.  Elkius,West  Virginia  ;  Mrs.  Charles  W.  Fairbank,  Indiana; 
Mrs.  Addison  G.  Foster,  Washington;  Mrs.  William  P.  Frye,  Maine;  Mrs. 
J.  H.  Gallinger,  New  Hampshire ;  Mrs.  H.  C.  Hansbrough,  North  Dakota ; 
Mrs.  Matthew  S.  Quay,  Pennsylvania;  Mrs.  Francis  E.  Warren,  Wyoming 
and  Mrs.  George  P.  Wetmore,  wives  of  United  States  Senators,  were  among 
those  who  replied  affirmatively  to  the  interrogations  propounded  by  The 
Christian  Herald  in  its  Easter  issue  of  1900,  and  which  may  be  found  in 
connection  with  Miss  Helen  Gould's  affirmation,  page  535. 


Every  evening  at  sunset,  "  Ye  shepherds  praise  the  Lord,"  was  repeated  from  cliff  to  cliff, 
until  every  voice  joined  in  the  chorus. 

c^RAISE  ye  the  Lord  who  made  us  and  gave  us 
^        Our  glorious  mountain-land ! 
With  the  bread  of  life  He  feeds  us 
Enlightened  by  His  Word.  -  Beatiie. 


^  THE  vSHEPHERD'S  BIBLE  IN  LIFE  AND  DEATH. 

WND  Thou  Father  hast  spread 
^^        Before  men's  eyes  this  Charter  of  the  free, 
That  all  the  Book  might  read, 

And  Justice  love,  and  truth  and  liberty.— A'zV^?//. 


A   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES. 


553 


2v. 


THE  CLOSING  ARGUMENT. 

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It  has  been  the  aim  of  the  Author  thus  far  to 
produce  cu^nulative^  reliable  and  condensed  evidence 
to  the  divinity  of  Jesus  Christ  and  the  Holy  Scrip- 
tures. A  thousand  or  more  Witnesses  have  little 
room  in  less  than  six  Jmndred  pages  ''to  give  a 
REASON  of  the  hope  that  is  in  them.''  For  the 
benefit^  therefore,  of  those  who  may  prefer  the  forum 
to  the  witness  stand  unanswerable  Argumejtts  by  a 
representative  of  the  Legal  prof essioji  are  hitroduced 
in  these  coitcluding  pages. 


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7C 


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THE  DIVINITY  OF  JESUS  CHRIST  FROM  THE 
STANDPOINT  OF  A  LAWYER. 

DANIEL  WOLSEY  VOORHEES, 

Thirty  Years  in  Congress  and  Senate. 
(1827-1897. ) 

^T  was  in  the  high  noontide  of 
the  most  enlightened  and 
most  powerful  period  in  Ro- 
man history  on  the  one  hand, 

and  in  the  midst  of  the  great  and 

intellectual  race  that  produced  Mo- 
ses and  the  prophets  on  the  other, 

that   He  who  was  proclaimed    the 

Messiah  appeared.     The   stage   on 

which  He  opened  His  mission  was 

blazing   with    the   searchlights    of 

more  than  electric  power,  and  was 


554 


A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 


presided  over  by  the  very  genius  of  learned  controversy.  He 
faced  an  intensely  critical  world  as  His  audience,  and  in  ex- 
plicit tones  declared  His  Divine  right  to  govern  the  hearts 
and  homes  of  the  human  race. 

The  enemies  of  the  Christian  religion,  from  the  days  of 
the  Pharisees  to  the  present,  have  held  that  His  claims  were 
spurious,  His  birth,  life,  teachings,  works  and  character  not 
truly  given  by  the  evangelists;  that  nothing  miraculous  took 
place  in  His  career;  that  He  was  not  Divine,  never  wrought 
a  miracle;  that  His  associates,  those  who  believed  His  words 
and  embraced  His  doctrines,  were  grossly  deceived ;  that  the 
minds  of  men  were  so  benighted  at  that  time  that  His  fraud- 
ulent pretensions  could  not  be  detected  and  exposed.  We 
may  admit  that  if  His  advent  had  taken  place  in  some  ob- 
scure part  of  the  earth,  su<rrounded  by  midnight  mystery  and 
by  savage  tribes  steeped  in  ignorance,  indifferent  to  events, 
without  motive  for  investigation,  these  points  of  objection 
would  be  entitled  to  more  weight  than  has  been  conceded. 

But  He  came  not  in  secret  nor  by  stealth.  The  star  of 
Bethlehem  did  not  shine  in  a  dark  place.  Even  the  "shep- 
herds abiding  in  the  field,  keeping  watch  over  the  flocks  by 

Note. — The  following  named  United  States  Senators  and  members 
of  the  Cabinet  earnestly  requested  Senator  Voorhees,  in  a  letter  dated 
Washington,  D.  C,  January  9,  1897,  to  deliver  the  Address  which  is 
produced  here  in  part:  Charles  J.  Faulkner,  William  V.  Allen,  John 
Sherman,  Francis  M.  Cockrell,  George  W.  McBride,  Knute  Nelson, 
Lncien  Baker,  Matthew  S.  Quay,  George  C.  Perkins,  Lee  Mantle, 
WiUiam  P.  Frye,  George  F.  Hoar.  Eugene  Hale,  Orville  H.  Piatt,  Wil- 
liam E.  Chandler,  William  A.  PefFer,  Clarence  D.  Clark,  Julius  C. 
Burrows,  William  M.  Roach,  Edward  Murphy,  Roger  Q.  Mills,  George 
G.  Vest,  John  Iv.  Wilson,  James  H.  Berry,  David  Turpie,  Cushman  K. 
Davis,  John  B.  Gordon,  Wilkinson  Call,  David  B.  HUl,  Horace  Chilton. 
Thomas  S.  Martin,  Ishani  G.  Harris,  Justin  S.  Morrill,  William  F. 
Vilas,  Arthur  P.  Gorham,  John  T.  Morgan,  James  K.  Jones,  James  L. 
Pugh,  John  W.  Daniel,  Charles  H.  Gibson,  Stephen  M.  White,  Calvin 
S.  Brice,  Joseph  C.  S.  Blackburn,  William  R.  Allison,  Shelby  M.  Cul- 
lom  and  James  Z.  George.  .  .  .  Richard  Olney,  J.  G.  Carlisle, 
David  Lamont  Judson  Harmon,  David  R.  Francis,  Sterling  Morton, 
William  L.  Wilson  and  Hilary  A.  Herbert. 


A   CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES.  555 

night,"  who  saw  strange  lights  in  the  sky,  were  not  shrunk 
in  mental  darkness.  They  were  so  well  informed  in  the 
prophecies  of  their  own  country  that  when  they  saw  the 
heavens  in  a  blaze  of  glory  and  heard  the  tidings  of  great  joy 
they  at  once  arose,  saying:  '*Let  us  now  go  even  unto  Beth- 
lehem and  see  this  thing  which  is  come  to  pass,  which  the 
Lord  hath  made  known  to  us."  Nor  was  the  little  town 
itself,  where  the  decrees  of  Csesar  Augustus  had  called  the 
Hebrew  subjects  together  to  be  taxed,  and  where  the  long- 
foretold  birth  took  place,  located  in  a  hidden,  out-of-the-way 
corner  of  the  world.  It  was  not  a  place  where  conspirators 
could  safely  lay  a  deep,  criminal  plot  for  the  consummation 
of  an  appalling,  never-ending  fraud.  On  the  contrary,  one 
of  the  prophets,  in  his  writings,  which  had  been  familiar  for 
a  thousand  years  to  Hebrew  people,  thus  designated  the  birth- 
place of  Jesus  of    Nazareth  : 

*'And  thou  Bethlehem,  in  the  land  of  Juda,  art  not  the 
least  among  the  princes  of  Juda,  for  out  of  thee  shall  come  a 
Governor  who  shall  rule  my  people,  Israel." 

But  it  is  sometimes  insisted  that  the  birth  of  Christ,  fore- 
told and  expected  as  it  was,  presented  nothing  so  startling  to 
the  powers  and  interests  of  the  world  at  that  time  as  to  beget 
any  wide-spreading  concern  or  to  excite  any  immediate  and 
activ^e  inquiry.  The  moment,  however,  His  claims  and  doc- 
trines were  announced  it  was  apparent  at  a  glance  that  they 
were  those  of  an  omnipotent  God,  or  of  a  daring  imposter. 
He  occupied  no  middle'ground,  admitted  no  compromise.  To 
all  people  of  Israel  His  kingdom  meant  an  ecclesiastical  revo- 
lution of  the  most  sweeping  character;  and  to  all  other  prov- 
inces of  Rome  it  meant  the  overthrow  of  every  altar  and 
temple,  of  every  oracle  and  god  in  all  the  boundaries  of  that 
vast  pagan  empire. 

Can  it  be  regarded  as  incredible,  therefore,  that  Herod  the 
Great,  an  ambitious,  blood-thirsty  man,  king  of  Judea  under 
Rome,  upon  hearing  that  a  prince  with  such  revolutionary 
designs  was  newly  born  in  one  of  his  towns,  should  promptly 
act,  and  in  all  his  wrath  slay  "all  the  children  that  were  in 


556  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

Bethlehem,  and  in  all  the  coasts  thereof,  from  two  years  old 
and  under,"  in  his  fierce  desire  to  destroy  a  pretender,  a  rival, 
as  he  thought,  to  his  throne? 

Pontius  Pilate,  whose  birthplace,  lineage  and  early  history 
are  unknown  even  to  this  hour,  became  the  Roman  procurator 
of  Judea  when  Jesus  of  Nazareth  was  in  His  twenty-sixth 
year.  He  held  this  great  power  ten  years,  was  then  removed 
and  banished  by  Caligula  to  Gaul. 

In  speaking  of  this  rule  of  Herod  and  Pontius  Pilate  over 
Judea  at  the  time  Christ  was  born,  and  of  His  death,  I  do  so 
for  the  purpose  of  making  plain  the  fact  that  the  government 
of  Rome  was  necessarily  fully  informed  by  its  eager  and  sub- 
servient vicegerents  of  Jerusalem,  not  only  of  all  their  official 
acts,  but  also  of  everything  of  importance  taking  place.  In 
the  face  of  these  facts  of  history,  who  will  contend  that  the 
birth  of  an  alleged  prince  of  the  lineage  of  the  house  of  David, 
His  growth  to  manhood  and  His  tragic  execution  for  sedition 
by  order  of  a  Roman  magistrate,  were  unknown,  or  could 
possibly  have  been  matters  of  indifference  to  the  rulers  and 
people  of  Rome? 

On  the  contrary,  Tacitus,  the  greatest  and  most  reliable  of 
all  pagan  historians,  writing  in  the  latter  part  of  the  first 
century,  in  regard  to  the  great  fire  which  raged  at  Rome  in 
the  reign  of  Nero  and  within  thirty  years  after  the  death  of 
the  Saviour,  makes  an  awful  record  of  the  knowledge  which 
the  Roman  people  had  of  Christ  and  His  followers.  Then 
in  his  famous  Annals,  in  graphic  language  and  in  bitter 
hostility  to  the  Christian  religion,  speaking  from  a  pagan 
standpoint,  Tacitus  says : 

"To  get  rid  of  the  report,  Nero  fastened  the  guilt,  and 
inflicted  the  most  exquisite  tortures,  on  a  class  hated  for  their 
abominations,  called  Christians  by  the  populace.  Christus, 
from  whom  the  name  had  its  origin,  suffered  the  extreme 
penalty  during  the  reign  of  Tiberius,  at  the  hands  of  one  of 
,our  procurators,  Pontius  Pilate,  and  a  most  mischievous  super- 
stition, thus  checked  for  the  moment,  again  broke  out,  not 
only  in  Judea,  the  first  source  of  the  evil,  but  even  in  Rome, 


A  CLOUD  OF  WITNESSES. 


557 


where  all  things  hideous  from  every  part  of  the  world  find 
their  center.  Accordingly  an  arrest  was  first  made  of  all  who 
plead  guilty ;  then  upon  their  information  an  immense  multi- 
tude was  convicted,  not  so  much  for  the  crime  of  firing  the 
city,  as  of  hatred  to  mankind.  Covered  with  the  skins  of 
beasts,  they  were  torn  by  dogs  and  perished,  or  were  nailed 
to  crosses,  or  were  doomed  to  the  flames  and  burned.  Nero 
offered  his  gardens  for  the  spectacle  and  exhibited  a  show  in 
the  circus,  while  he  mingled  with  the  people  dressed  as  a 
charioteer.  Hence,  even  for  criminals  who  deserved  extreme 
punishment,  there  arose  a  feeling  of  compassion ;  it  was  not 
for  the  public  good,  but  to  glut  one  man's  cruelty,  that  they 
were  destroyed.'* 

Of  this  "immense  multitude"  thus  horribly  massacred, 
hundreds,  perhaps  thousands,  were  contemporary  with  the 
Saviour  and  His  apostles ;  some  among  them  may  have  heard 
thirty  years  before  the  Sermon  on  the  Mount,  or  witnessed 
the  erection  of  the  cross  on  Calvary ;  all  of  them  were  doubt- 
less familiar  with  the  subsequent  preaching  of  Peter  and  Paul. 

Nothing  could  more  conclusively  show  the  familiarity  of 
the  pagan  world  with  the  existence  of  Christ,  and  with  the 
origin  of  Christianity,  or  demonstrated  more  forcibly  the 
rapidity  with  which  the  Christian  faith  made  its  way  in  the 
face  of  obliquy,  torture  and  death,  than  this  great  historical 
fact,  obtained  not  from  sacred  writings,  not  from  friends,  but 
from  the  enemies  of  Christianity. 

It  is  one  of  the  well-known  assertions  of  infidel  thinkers 
and  debaters  that  the  existence,  the  career,  the  teachings  of 
the  Messiah,  as  foretold  by  the  prophets,  and  as  recorded  by 
His  disciples,  were  not  known  at  the  time  they  were  said  to 
have  occurred ;  that  the  writings  of  the  evangelists  came 
afterwards  and  are  mere  fabrications,  not  corroborated  by 
disinterested  historians.  Not  only  Tacitus  refutes  this  un- 
warranted assumption,  but  the  most  illustrious  historian  of 
the  Jews  themselves  does  the  same. 

Josephus  was  born  four  years  after  the  crucifixion.  In  his 
childhood  he  listened  to  his  parents  as  they  told  the  marve' 


55^  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

ous  things  they  had  witnessed.  He  visitea  Rome  when  he 
was  twenty-three  years  old  and  while  Nero  was  on  the  throne. 
He  wrote  a  history  of  his  people,  of  their  wars,  victories  and 
defeats.  In  arranging  the  events  which  marked  the  ten  years' 
procuratorship  of  Pontius  Pilate,  Josephus  says : 

"Now  there  was  about  this  time,  Jesus,  a  wise  man,  if  it 
be  lawful  to  call  him  a  man,  for  he  was  a  doer  of  wonderful 
works,  a  teacher  of  such  men  as  receive  the  truth  with  pleas- 
ure. He  drew  over  to  him  many  of  the  Jews,  and  many  of 
the  Gentiles.  He  was  the  Christ.  And  when  Pilate,  at  the 
suggestion  of  the  principal  men  among  us,  had  condemned 
him  to  the  cross,  those  that  loved  him  at  the  first  did  not 
forsake  him ;  for  he  appeared  to  them  alive  again  the  third 
day,  as  the  divine  prophets  had  foretold  these  and  ten  thou- 
sand other  wonderful  things  concerning  him.  And  Chris- 
tians, so  named  from  him,  are  not  extinct  at  this  day.'* 

This  famous  passage,  it  is  true,  has  been  denounced  as  a 
forgery;  only,  however,  by  those  who  also  denounce  every 
other  proof  that  Christ  was  the  Messiah ;  while,  on  the  other 
hand,  the  most  learned  and  impartial  students  and  critics,  by 
a  concensus  of  opinion,  now  hold  this  testimony  of  the  great 
Hebrew  historian  as  genuine. 

And  it  may  be  further  noted  that  wherever  the  light  of 
Christianity  has  penetrated,  in  every  age  and  clime,  there  the 
enemies  of  the  Messiah  have  followed  with  unceasing  and 
persistent  efforts  to  obliterate  and  nullify  every  record  of  His 
mission  and  individuality;  to  obscure  His  personal  identity; 
to  discredit  and  impugn  as  a  forger  and  falsifier  every  writer, 
sacred  or  profane,  who  bears  testimony  to  the  truth  and  integ-^ 
rity  of  His  character;  to  bedim  the  great  fact  of  His  presence 
on  earth  by  declaring  Him  a  myth,  fraudulent  invention, 
foisted  by  criminal  conspirators,  with  the  apostles  and  the 
evangelists  at  their  head,  on  the  blind  and  stupid  faith  of  the 
world. 

Such  has  been  the  dismal  and  barren  mission  of  the  leaders 
of  the  anti-Christian  thought  of  the  world  during  all  the  ages 
this  side  of  Calvary.     And  with  what  result?    As  well  might 


A   CLOUD   OK   WITNESSES.  559 

mortal  man  stretch  forth  his  puny  arm  toward  the  sky  and 
seek  to  quench  its  eternal  fires  as  to  attempt  to  blot  out  or 
darken  the  figure  of  the  Son  of  Man  as  He  stands,  in  the 
deathless  splendor  of  His  power  and  mercy,  on  the  pages  of 
authentic  history. 

In  approaching  this  point,  however,  a  closer  look  at  the 
circumstances  immediately  connected  with  the  opening  of  the 
Messiah's  active  mission,  we  find  that  within  themselves  and 
in  all  the  details  they  were  of  a  character  to  arrest  the  startled 
attention  of  the  world  then  looking  on.  The  establishment 
of  a  new  kingdom  was  announced,  but  not  according  to 
human  methods,  not  by  military  force  and  pomp ;  a  new  and 
mighty  ruler,  a  prince  of  more  than  royal  blood,  was  declared, 
but  not  by  the  inspiring  strains  of  martial  music,  not  by  high 
Stewarts  and  lord  chamberlains.  No  brilliant  procession  in 
cloth  and  gold,  decorated  with  stars  and  garters,  heralded  His 
coming,  no  plumed  knight,  with  armor  and  visors  down,  pro- 
claimed Him.  And  yet  never  before  nor  since  has  the  right 
of  a  monarch  to  a  throne  been  announced  by  herald  with 
commission  so  high  and  authority  so  great  as  he  who  on  the 
plains  of  Palestine  summoned  the  world's  allegiance  to  Jesus- 
of  Nazareth : 

"In  those  days  came  John  the  Baf)tist,  preaching  in  the 
wilderness  of  Judea.  And  saying,  repent  ye,  for  the  king- 
dom of  heaven  is  at  hand.  For  this  is  He  that  was  spoken 
of  by  the  prophet  Esaias,  saying:  'The  voice  of  one  crying 
in  the  wilderness.  Prepare  ye  the  way  of  the  Lord,  make  his 
paths  straight.'  And  the  same  John  had  his  raiment  of 
camel's  hair,  and  a  leathern  girdle  about  his  loins;  and  his 
meat  was  locust  and  wild  honey." 

This  hermit  of  the  wilderness,  living  the  hard  life  of  an 
anchorite  and  waiting  for  the  fullness  of  time  when  his  conse- 
crated voice  was  to  be  heard,  was  a  close  student  of  the 
prophets.  Instructed  by  prophetic  light,  he  knew  he  was 
chosen  from  his  birth  to  proclaim  the  coming  of  the  Messiah, 
and  as  he  emerged  from  the  desert  and  showed  himself  to 
Israel  he  cried  out : 


560  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

**  There  cometh  One  mightier  than  I  after  me,  the  latchet 
of  whose  shoes  I  am  not  worthy  to  stoop  down  and  unloose." 

And  then  on  the  banks  of  the  Jordan  ensued  that  meeting 
between  the  Messiah  and  his  desert-trained  forerunner,  on 
which  all  the  centuries  since  have  intently  gazed ;  it  was  no 
obscure  place ;  they  met  in  the  presence  of  curious  multitudes 
who  had  gone  out  from  Jerusalem  and  Judea  and  all  the 
regions  round  about.  It  is  recorded  as  an  incident  of  this 
meeting  "that  Jesus  came  from  Nazareth  of  Galilee  and  was 
baptized  of  John  in  the  Jordan."  And  it  may  be  taken  as 
the  distinct  verdict  of  history,  whether  written  in  the  light 
of  Christian  faith  or  in  pagan  unbelief,  that  from  that  spot  of 
earth,  and  by  virtue  of  the  revelations  there  made  and  the 
principles  there  inculcated,  the  world  has  been  governed 
through  all  the  centuries  since,  and  has  gathered  into  its 
history  all  that  has  been  known  for  nearly  two  thousand  years 
of  civilization,  moral  progress  and  glory.  At  the  name  of 
Him  who  was  there  from  Nazareth  more  heads  have  bowed, 
more  knees  have  bent,  than  all  the  crowned  monarchs  of 
earth  put  together  since  the  beginning  of  time. 

And  yet  never  came  a  claimant  to  a  throne,  the  most  insig- 
nificant, with  an  appearance  so  powerless,  so  destitute  of  rank, 
:SO  lowly  in  demeanor,  so  salutary  in  His  understanding.  On 
foot  and  alone,  so  far  as  mortal  eye  could  see,  He  met  the 
herald  of  His  kingdom,  clothed  in  skins  and  fresh  from  the 
wilderness  and  the  desert. 

In  the  selection  of  the  apostolic  twelve  He  called  no  one 
of  family  distinction,  no  leader  of  society,  no  president  of  a 
bank,  no  head  of  a  corporation,  no  speculator  in  gold  reserves, 
no  money  changer  from  the  temple,  no  broker  from  the  stock 
market,  no  millionaire  from  the  Wall  Street  of  Jerusalem. 

Matthew,  the  first  evangelist,  and  prominent  as  an  apostle, 
was  a  subordinate  tax  collector,  a  small  official  position. 
John,  the  best  beloved  of  them  all,  author  of  the  fourth  gospel, 
the  three  epistles  that  bear  his  name  and  the  Book  of  Reve- 
lation, was  called,  with  his  brother  James,  from  a  fishing 
boat,  where  they  were  plying  their  vocation. 


A   CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES.  561 

No  humbler  people  have  ever  been  known  than  those  who 
shift  and  loiter  and  tent  along  the  waterways  of  a  country, 
and  catch  and  sell  fish  for  a  living,  and  yet  seven  of  the 
original  apostolic  twelve  were  chosen  from  this  lowly  pursuit 
— far  below  the  pale  of  social  recognition,  out  of  the  reach  of 
the  schools  and  utterly  destitute  of  influence  in  the  affairs  of 
this  world.  Peter,  in  many  respects,  was  the  strongest  of  all 
the  apostles.  By  nature  impetuous,  he  committed  grave 
faults  and  was  gravely  rebuked,  but  when  the  crucifixion  of 
his  Lord  and  the  day  of  Pentecost,  with  its  tongues  of  fire 
and  its  baptism  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  had  launched  him  directly 
into  the  work,  his  unfaltering  courage,  his  burning  eloquence 
speedily  made  him  a  great  leader  in  the  foremost  rank  of  the 
Christian  world. 

And  whence  came  this  man  whose  name  will  live  in  more 
than  earthly  splendor  until  the  light  of  the  sun  itself  shall  go 
out  in  eternal  night?  Had  he  a  proud  birthright,  a  lofty 
lineage,  a  rich  domain  inherited  from  noble  ancestors?  The 
answer  to  these  questions  is  very  simple  and  well  known : 

"And  Jesus  walking  by  the  Sea  of  Galilee  saw  two  breth- 
ren, Simon  called  Peter,  and  Andrew,  his  brother,  casting  a 
net  into  the  sea,  for  they  were  fishers.  And  He  saith  unto 
them,  follow  Me,  and  I  will  make  you  fishers  of  men.  And 
they  straightway  left  their  nets  and  followed  Him." 

Not  a  question  was  asked  as  to  their  qualifications,  their 
education,  their  personal  history;  no  civil  service  commission 
was  appointed  to  ascertain  whether  these  two  unknown, 
weatherbeaten  men  from  Bethsaida,  stained  and  soiled  by 
their  occupation,  could  even  read  or  write.  Indeed,  it  is 
manifest  to  every  unbiased  mind  that  the  Messiah  purposely 
and  conspicuously  notified  the  world  at  that  time  and  the 
ages  that  were  to  come  that  He  relied  not  in  the  slightest 
degree  for  the  success  of  His  mission  and  the  establishment 
of  His  kingdom  on  earthly  rank,  intellectual  distinction, 
hereditary  greatness,  or  on  any  of  the  well-known  agencies 
which  human  power  employs  to  accomplish  its  purposes. 
Nor  can  it  be  overlooked  in  this  important  connection  that 


5^2  A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

He  who  summoned  these  uneducated  men  to  His  side  was 
never  Himself  the  recipient  of  a  single  page  of  human  learn- 
ing. There  is  no  record  of  a  day  ever  spent  by  the  Messiah 
in  the  schools  or  the  colleges.  On  the  contrary,  He  has  made 
it  clear  that  He  never  listened  to  tutors  or  professors.  When 
He  taught  in  the  temple  during  the  feast  of  the  tabernacles 
there  were  those  standing  near  Him  who  had  come  up,  as  He 
had,  from  Galilee,  and  who  had  known  Him  from  His  child- 
hood. They  had  seen  him  daily  in  their  midst,  never  in  the 
schoolroom,  never  instructed  by  teachers.  When,  therefore, 
they  heard  for  the  first  time  His  majestic  sentences  ring  out 
on  His  startled  audience  they  greatly  marveled  among 
themselves,  and  finally  one  of  them  cried  out :  "How  knoweth 
this  man  letters,  having  never  learned?"  His  reply  was 
decisive:  "My  doctrine  is  not  mine,  but  His  that  sent  Me." 

And  now,  at  this  point  and  in  view  of  the  results  which 
have  followed,  how  stands  the  contention  that  He  possessed 
only  natural  powers  and  human  agencies;  that  He  was 
of  none  other  than  human  origin ;  that  He  had  nothing  to 
transmit  except  human  influences  and  human  methods  for  the 
accomplishment  of  the  vast  events  foretold  and  which  have 
vcome  to  pass;  that  His  obscure  apostles  received  from  Him 
nothing  supernatural,  nothing  miraculous,  nothing  more  of 
power  to  execute  His  will  and  to  carry  out  His  purposes  than 
one  man  dying  in  abject  poverty  and  in  deep,  overwhelming 
popular  disgrace  could  bestow  to  others  in  the  same  condition? 

I  appeal  on  this  subject  to  cool,  logical  reason,  and  not  to 
emotional  faith,  however  beautiful  that  may  be.  He  died 
the  death  of  a  degraded  malefactor  under  the  laws  of  Rome. 
On  the  dreadful  day  of  Calvary  His  grief-stricken,  terrified 
disciples  gazed  from  a  distance  on  the  ruthless  executioners 
at  their  bloody  work.  Never  has  leader  among  men  at  the 
close  of  a  disastrous  career  fallen  so  low  as  He  appeared  to 
be ;  so  destitute  of  support,  so  despised,  so  mocked  and  reviled 
by  the  base  rabble;  and  yet  all  the  blood-stained  conquerors 
of  earth  put  together,  all  the  Alexanders,  Hannibals,  Caesars 
and    Napoleons    combined,  at  their  zenith    could    not    have 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  563 

transmitted  to  posterity  by  a  joint  will  an  estate  of  the  value 
of  a  speck  of  dust,  a  worthless  mote  in  the  air,  in  comparison 
with  the  estate  of  unending  glory  bequeathed  by  Him  in  His 
last  will  and  testament  to  the  nations  and  to  the  ages.  Even 
the  crown  of  thorns,  placed  in  derision  on  His  bleeding  brow, 
has  been  an  emblem  more  sacred  and  of  greater  authority  from 
that  hour  than  all  the  crowns  blazing  with  diamonds  and 
precious  stones  ever  worn  by  the  proudest  monarchs  of  earth. 

How  marvelous,  therefore,  that  intelligent  beings  can  be 
found  to  contend  that  such  a  character  and  such  a  history 
represents  only  natural  results  springing  from  natural  causes ; 
that  the  far-reaching,  imperishable  consequences  of  the  Mes- 
siah's brief  life  and  degrading  death  in  the  company  of  thieves 
are  to  be  ascribed  to  nothing  higher  than  weak,  wayward 
human  nature  alone  and  unaided!  The  old-fashioned,  well- 
understood  connection  between  cause  and  effect  under  natural 
laws  plainly  and  forever  determines  this  question.  It  is  not 
difficult  to  believe  that  such  powers  as  Christ  displayed  were 
superhuman,  while  it  is  wholly  impossible  to  credit  them  to 
mortal  man.  Reason,  therefore,  dispassionate  reason,  alone 
independent  of  religious  faith,  must  decide  that  the  Author 
of  Christianity  was  Divine;  His  teachings  of  an  origin  higher 
than  earth  and  His  Doctrines  those  of  an  omnipotent  God 
and  a  merciful  Redeemer  of  the  world. 

When  the  meeting  between  the  Master  and  His  forerunner 
at  the  Jordan  was  over  their  interview  ended,  each  went 
his  appointed  way,  Jesus  to  endure  His  fast  and  His  tempta- 
tion in  the  wilderness,  John  to  prison  and  to  death.  They 
parted  to  meet  no  more  beneath  the  sun^  and  they  had  com- 
munication with  each  other,  even  at  a  distance,  but  once  on 
the  shore  of  time.  That  single  instance,  however,  is  so  full  of 
proof,  so  convincing  in  argument,  and  throws  a  light  so  clear 
and  conclusive,  that  it  can  not  be  ignored  in  discussing  the 
divinity  of  the  Messiah. 

John  was  deeply  versed  in  the  prophecies,  and  knew  famil- 
iarly what  works  were  foretold  to  take  place  at  Christ's  com- 
ing; the  miracles  of  love  and  mercy  would  signify  His  pres- 


564  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

ence  on  earth.  He  himself  had  witnessed  some  of  these 
manifestations  of  divine  power  and  was  satisfied ;  but  now, 
in  the  gloomy  depths  of  Herod's  prison  and  in  the  wierd  and 
desolate  air  of  captivity,  he  longed  to  be  reassured  by  Him 
who  spake  as  never  man  spake. 

'*  And  John  calling  unto  him  two  of  his  disciples  sent  them 
to  Jesus,  saying,  art  Thou  He  that  should  come,  or  look  we 
for  another?  When  the  men  were  come  unto  him  they  said, 
John  Baptist  hath  sent  us  unto  Thee  saying,  art  Thou  He 
that  should  come,  or  look  we  for  another? 

**And  in  that  same  hour  He  cured  many  of  their  infirmities 
and  plagues  and  of  evil  spirits;  and  unto  them  that  were 
blind  He  gave  sight. 

"Then  Jesus  answering  said  unto  them,  go  your  way,  and 
tell  John  what  things  ye  have  seen  and  heard ;  how  that  the 
blind  see,  the  lame  walk,  the  lepers  are  cleansed,  the  deaf 
hear,  the  dead  are  raised,  to  the  poor  the  Gospel  is  preached." 

This  answer  was  enough ;  it  needed  no  interpreter  to  the 
well-instructed  mind  of  John.  The  answer  of  the  Saviour 
could  have  been  simply  yea  or  nay,  but  He  chose  to  give  the 
facts  themselves  in  proof,  on  which  not  only  John,  but  all 
the  ages,  might  judge  and  reach  a  conclusion. 

It  will  not  do  to  rest  in  the  faith  so  often  asserted  that 
Jesus  of  Nazareth  was  merely  a  great,  wise  and  good  man, 
working  as  other  man  have  worked  for  the  reformation  of  the 
world.  It  was  in  reply  to  the  direct  question  whether  He 
was  the  One  who  should  come,  the  promised  and  anointed 
One,  the  Christ,- or  whether  another  was  to  be  looked  for,  that 
He  cited  the  deeds  which  John's  disciples  saw  Him  perform 
as  an  evidence,  according  to  the  prophets,  that  the  Messiah 
had  come.  He  was  either  the  Messiah  or  He  was  an  untruth- 
ful pretender.  By  no  possibility  could  He  have  been  a  good 
man  and  no  more.  He  was  what  He  claimed  to  be,  or  He 
was  a  criminal  conspirator,  a  dishonest  leader  of  the  people. 

Shortly  after  His  final  message,  however,  to  John  He  again 
spoke,  and  this  time  still  more  directly  on  the  question  of  His 
identity.     At  Csesarea  Philippi  He  asked  His  disciples  say- 


A  CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  565 

ing,  "Whom  do  men  say  that  I,  the  Son  of  Man,  am?"  and 
the  answer  was :  ' '  Some  say  that  Thou  art  John  the  Baptist, 
some  Elias,  and  others  Jeremiah,  or  one  of  the  prophets." 
After  hearing  their  report  of  what  others  said,  Jesus  put  the 
question  direct :  "But  whom  say  ye  that  lam?"  The  im- 
mortal response  was  instantaneous:  "And  Simon  Peter  an- 
swered and  said.  Thou  art  the  Christ,  the  Son  of  the  living 
God."  If  Jesus  had  been  no  more  than  mortal  man,  wise 
and  good,  He  would,  without  a  moment's  delay,  have  cor- 
rected Peter's  mistake ;  He  would  have  left  no  such  erroneous 
record  uncontradicted.  On  the  contrary,  however.  He  per- 
ceived that  to  this  unlettered  fisherman,  fresh  from  his  boat 
and  nets,  had  been  given  a  correct  knowledge  of  the  mighty 
truth. 

"And  He  answered  and  said  unto  him,  blessed  art  thou, 
Simon  Bar-Jona,  for  flesh  and  blood  hath  not  revealed  it  unto 
thee,  but  my  Father  which  is  in  heaven.  And  I  say  also 
unto  thee  that  thou  art  Peter,  and  upon  this  rock  I  will  build 
my  church,  and  the  gates  of  hell  shall  not  prevail  against  it." 

In  this  brief,  imperishable  interview  with  His  disciples 
Jesus  spoke  without  reserve  as  a  witness  to  His  own  divinity, 
and  His  powerful  words  have  rung  through  all  the  centuries. 
He  spoke  not  in  argument  to  Peter  as  He  did  to  John.  To 
Peter,  unlearned  in  books,  not  knowing  the  prophecies.  He 
spoke  simply  in  strong,  positive  affirmation  that  He  was  the 
Christ,  the  Son  of  the  living  God.  He  left  nothing  to  infer- 
ence or  construction. 

In  passing  upon  the  evidence  here  and  elsewhere  by  our 
Saviour  Himself  as  to  His  origin  and  identity,  the  controlling 
point  in  the  mind  of  a  lawyer  trained  in  the  courts  is  neces- 
sarily His  own  credibility  as  a  witness.  He  spoke  often  and 
explicitly  on  this  subject  and  to  various  persons.  To  the 
Samaritan  woman  at  Jacob's  well ;  to  the  blind  man  whose 
sight  He  restored  at  the  pool  of  Siloam ;  at  the  feast  of  the 
dedication,  and  repeatedly  at  other  times  and  places,  and  to 
other  persons  He  avowed  Himself  the  Christ.  He  sanctioned 
the  faith  of  Martha  as  He  approached  the  grave  of  Lazarus 


^66  A   CLOUD    OF    WITNESSES. 

and  bade  the  dead  come  forth.  Not  a  day  seems  to  have 
passed  during  is  ministry  on  earth  that  He  did  not  boldly  and 
distinctly  testify  to  the  same  great  fact.  He  declared,  indeed, 
as  recorded  by  John,  that  He  was  One  who  bore  witness  of 
Himself.  Did  He  speak  the  truth?  If  He  did  not  bear  false 
witness  in  the  face  of  heaven  and  earth  then  all  the  infidel 
advocates  of  all  time,  however  able  and  eloquent,  and  they 
are  exceedingly  few,  must  stand  defeated  at  the  bar  of  judg- 
ment here  and  of  judgment  hereafter. 

And  who  rises  here  or  elsewhere  throughout  the  broad  earth 
to  impeach  the  veracity  of  Him  who  delivered  the  Sermon  on 
the  Mount?  Who  comes  forward  to  assert  that  the  Lord's 
Prayer  was  dictated  by  lips  stained  with  falsehood  and  steeped 
in  false  pretenses?  What  lawyer  can  be  found,  whatever  his 
creed  of  faith,  or  of  no  faith,  who  will  make  such  an  issue  in 
court  in  the  trial  of  a  cause  and  there  undertake  to  prove  that 
the  reputation  of  Jesus  of  Nazareth  for  truth  is  not  good ; 
that  what  he  said  of  Himself,  even  of  His  own  personal  iden- 
tity, is  unworthy  of  belief? 

I  have  appeared  as  counsel  in  the  courts  of  more  states  than 
first  composed  the  American  Union,  and  I  have  met  in  trials 
before  courts  and  juries  Abraham  Lincoln,  Thomas  A.  Hen- 
dricks, Benjamin  Harrison,  John  G.  Carlisle,  Matthew  H. 
Carpenter,  Jeremiah  S.  Black,  and  many  others  who  might 
be  named  of  great  ability,  but  never  yet  have  I  known  a 
lawyer  of  any  rank  who  was  willing  to  risk  his  case  on  an 
attempt  to  impeach  the  testimony  of  that  Witness  who  was 
born  twenty  centuries  ago  in  a  village  stable,  who  wandered 
to  and  fro  on  earth  as  a  homeless  tramp,  and  who  died  at  an 
early  age  as  a  criminal  in  the  company  of  thieves. 

But  why  peruse  this  point  further?  The  testimony  of  the 
meek  and  lowly  Nazarene  was  given  with  full  knowledge  of 
the  fact  which  He  testified;  it  stands  not  only  unimpeached 
and  unimpeachable,  but  also  corroborated  by  every  step  in 
the  history  of  the  last  two  thousand  years.  The  jury  of  the 
world  has  accepted  and  decided  upon  it  as  conclusive  and 
long  ago  has  rendered  its  final  verdict. 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  567 

And  here  for  a  moment  we  may  pause  and  look  at  the  gen- 
eral outlines  and  salient  features  of  the  three  years'  itinerancy 
of  the  Divine  Master.  With  His  blood  and  in  the  agony  of 
His  death  He  provided  a  way  of  salvation  for  the  human  soul, 
while  at  the  same  time  His  mission  and  His  teachings  laid 
hold  upon  all  the  temporal  and  practical  affairs  of  men  and 
of  nations  and  pointed  them  to  pathways  of  fraternity,  liberty 
and  equality. 

What  statesmanship  of  earth  has  matched  the  Golden  Rule 
as  a  principle  of  government?  It  was  at  one  of  His  great 
out-door  meetings  in  the  plain,  surrounded  by  His  disciples 
*'and  a  great  multitude  of  people  who  came  to  hear  Him," 
that  He  cried  out:  "And  as  ye  would  that  men  should  do  to 
you,  do  ye  also  to  them  likewise."  This  code  of  only  sixteen 
words  embraces  all  the  natural  rights  of  man.  Within  its 
provisions  neither  despotism  nor  slavery,  or  oppressive  laws 
of  any  kind  can  find  a  foothold;  no  discrimination  can  be 
made  against  the  toiling  millions  for  the  benefit  of  the  privi- 
leged few ;  no  prison  doors  can  be  barred  against  the  habeas 
corpus  and  the  right  to  speedy  and  impartial  trial.  What 
more  is  required  in  governments  made  for  the  people  than 
these  great  guarantees? 

Every  government  in  Christendom  has  owed  its  existence 
and  glory  to  that  rule  of  action  which  was  proclaimed  by  the 
Divine  Lawgiver  born  at  Bethlehem.  Who  has  improved 
upon  it?  Who  has  ever  approached  it  in  sublimity  and 
power?  The  teachings  of  sages,  philosophers  and  statesmen 
are  mute  and  impotent  in  comparison.  Men,  the  most  illus- 
trious for  ability  and  statesmanship,  who  have  founded  states, 
are  remembered  with  gratitude  only  in  proportion  as  they 
have  embodied  in  their  works  the  Golden  Rule. 

At  this  point,  however,  another  feature  in  the  history  of 
the  Messiah  and  of  the  Christian  world  awaits  us.  His  labors 
were  ended ;  He  stood  with  serene  and  awful  majesty  before 
Pilate;  He  climbed  the  slopes  of  Calvary  and  drained  the 
bitter  cup  to  its  dregs;  He  prayed  for  His  executioners  in 
His  dying  agony  and  pardoned  the  penitent  thief  at  His  side. 


568  A   CLOUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

and  as  the  earth  quaked  with  terror  and  the  sky  grew  dark: 
He  cried:  "It  is  finished!"  Joseph  of  Aramathea  begged 
His  body  and  gave  it  a  burial  place  for  charity,  and  then 
within  three  days  after  began  that  marvelous  and  unending^ 
journey,  which  from  age  to  age  extended  in  widening  circles, 
until  its  line  of  travel  became  the  highways  of  nations  and 
has  marked  the  whole  earth. 

The  first  pilgrims  to  the  sepulcher  were  the  two  eager, 
weeping  women,  Mary  Magdalene  and  the  other  Mary,  earl/ 
in  the  morning  of  the  third  day.  The  tomb  was  empty. 
Less  than  three  whole  days  had  the  body  of  their  Master 
rested  there,  and  yet  not  a  single  moment  in  all  the  ages  since 
has  that  empty  grave  ceased  to  attract  to  its  sacred  precincts 
the  emotional  feelings  and  the  devout  pilgrimage  of  the 
civilized  world.  After  the  lapse  of  more  than  ten  centuries- 
the  most  protracted  and  destructive  wars  known  to  history 
were  declared  and  waged  for  the  possession  of  that  one  small, 
narrow  spot  of  earth. 

The  wars  of  the  Crusades  convulsed  the  world  for  nearly 
two  hundred  years.  They  were  conducted  under  the  banner 
of  the  cross  and  for  the  rescue  of  the  Holy  Sepulcher  from 
the  hands  of  the  Saracen.  They  present  in  themselves  alone 
a  tempting  theme,  and  yet  the  only  imperishable  lesson  they 
left  is  to  be  found  in  their  final  and  total  failure.  The  sol- 
diers of  Mahomet  held  at  bay  the  Christian  world  in  arms. 
His  crescent  has  waved  over  the  sepulcher  of  our  Lord  for 
the  last  seven  hundred  years  and  more,  and  it  is  there  now. 
Does  the  Christian  soul  of  today  feel  humiliated  because  of 
this  fact?  If  so,  I  desire  to  say  that  it  is  with  special  refer- 
ence to  that  sense  of  humiliation  that  I  have  here  alluded  to 
the  tremendous  efforts  which  were  made,  and  made  in  vain, 
to  control  by  force  of  arms  the  last  earthly  place  of  the  Prince 
of  Peace;  to  make  him  the  patron  of  war;  to  recognize  the 
sword,  drawn  in  His  name,  as  the  symbol  of  His  mission  on 
earth.  To  my  mind  the  Providence  of  the  Most  High  God 
is  manifest  in  the  ultimate  and  lasting  results  of  the  Crusades. 

The  divinity  of  the  Messiah,  on  which  depends  the  entire 


A   CLOUD   OF    WITNESSES.  569 

•structure  of  Christianity,  and  without  which  it  would  long 
since  have  crumbled  in  ruins,  was  proclaimed  by  Him  over 
and  over  again :  "My  kingdom  is  not  of  this  world."  He 
desired  no  mausoleum,  no  magnificent  tomb,  no  monument 
^ver  the  place  where  He  rested  after  He  had  trodden  the 
winepress  of  death. 

Who  commissioned  the  captains  of  war  to  draw  their  swords 
for  Him?  All  the  powers  of  earth  and  hell  combined  could 
not  desecrate  His  grave,  insult  His  memory,  His  majesty  and 
His  glory.  The  scorn  of  the  Saracen,  however  great,  could 
not  call  for  war  at  the  hands  of  those  who  worshiped  the 
Prince  of  Peace.  He  left  no  such  injunction  to  those  who 
owned  His  cause  or  carried  His  cross.  The  conquest  over 
the  world  and  over  the  powers  of  the  world  which  he  pro- 
claimed was  not  the  victory  of  the  sword,  but  of  the 
spirit  that  is  far  mightier  than  the  sword.  By  the  peaceful 
power  of  that  spirit  He  governs  the  governing  powers  of  the 
earth.  He  rules  in  the  councils  that  make  international  law 
for  the  Christian,  the  infidel  and  pagan  world  today. 

Another  reason  for  the  failure  of  the  crusaders'  armed  pil- 
grimages as  an  acceptable  service  to  the  cause  of  Christianity 
yet  remains  and  arises  with  great  force  in  this  connection. 
The  worship  of  God  depends  on  no  locality,  requires  no  shrine 
or  altars,  no  temples  with  long-drawn  aisles,  fretted  vaults 
and  turrets  pointing  to  the  sky.  The  humblest  peasant  on 
the  globe,  far  distant  from  Jerusalem,  is  as  near  to  the  Saviour's 
love  as  the  prostrate  pilgrim  on  his  tomb.  The  Christian 
fireside,  however  humble,  is  as  well-known  to  our  Father  in 
heaven  as  any  of  the  holy  places  in  Palestine.  The  great 
Teacher  and  Redeemer  came  not  merely  to  Jordan,  Mount 
Olivet,  Gethsemane  and  to  Calvary.  He  came  to  the  whole 
earth;  to  every  river,  mountain  and  plain,  to  every  seacoast, 
to  the  crested  waves  of  every  ocean.  His  burial  place  is  not 
alone  in  Judea;  it  is  in  all  lands  and  in  every  heart  that 
believes  in  Him.  But  few  of  the  children  of  men  can  visit 
the  holy  land  and  bathe  with  tears  its  sacred  places,  but  to 
^very  generation  of  all  peoples  and  nations  the  presence  of 


570  A    CI.OUD    OF   WITNESSES. 

Christ  is  assured,  if  sought,  in  their  own  homes.  His  voice 
is  close  to  the  ear  that  listens  and  is  incessantly  repeating  to 
every  toil-worn  heart :  ' '  Come  unto  Me,  all  ye  that  labor  and 
are  heavy  laden,  and  I  will  give  you  rest.'' 

And  lo,  now,  what  is  this  great  light  we  see  breaking  over- 
head, brighter  far  than  the  sun,  and  falling  in  undying  splen- 
dor on  our  pathway  as  we  journey  toward  home?  The  di- 
vinity of  Jesus  of  Nazareth,  blazing  out  as  it  does  from  every 
lesson  of  history,  is  the  only  solution  of  earth's  most  tran- 
scendent problem — the  immortality  of  the  soul.  "If  a  man 
die,  shall  he  live  again?"  Since  the  first  morning  star  saluted 
the  dawn  of  creation  the  question  has  lived,  breathed  and 
whispered  eagerly  and  incessantly  in  every  throbbing  heart 
this  side  of  the  sun.  On  every  plain  and  mountain ;  from 
the  Himalayas,  crested  with  eternal  snow,  to  the  jungles  of 
Africa  under  the  equator ;  in  the  land  of  Isis  and  Osiris,  lotus- 
crowned  Egypt,  and  in  the  tents  of  Zoroaster,  who  worshiped 
the  fire  of  the  sun  and  besought  the  stars  to  unfold  their 
mysteries ;  in  the  prison-house  of  Socrates,  with  the  cup  of 
hemlock,  and  in  the  wigwam  of  the  Indian  of  the  New 
World ;  wherever  the  footstep  of  man  has  left  print,  there 
this  yearning  appeal  has  been  heard ;  there  the  human  mind, 
whether  weak  or  strong,  whether  in  dense  darkness  or  in  the 
misty  light  of  ancient  philosophies,  has  been  found  peering^ 
with  sleepless,  unceasing  vigilance  into  the  future;  to  the 
mountains,  the  rivers,  the  oceans,  the  sun,  moon  and  winds 
for  an  answer  to  the  universal,  unappeasable  cry  for  immor- 
tality. 

But  nature,  with  all  its  powers,  the  physical  universe,  with 
all  its  magnificence,  can  give  no  response ;  neither  the  heavens 
above  nor  the  waters  under  the  earth  can  make  an  answer  to 
this  longing  cry,  this  ceaseless  interrogation  of  eternity  which 
keeps  time  with  every  heartbeat  on  the  shores  of  mortality. 

Over  the  graves  of  the  loved  ones  of  earth,  from  pale, 
quivering  lips  and  breaking  hearts,  the  wailing,  sobbing 
question  is  as  unceasing  as  the  murmur  of  the  winds,  and  its 
burden  is  forevermore  the  same :    "Shall  this  mgrtal  put  on 


A  CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES.  571 

immortality;  shall  we  meet  again  to  part  no  more?''  The 
philosophy  of  ancient  paganism  and  the  scientific  thought  of 
modern  unbelief  have  alike  tried,  and  tried  in  vain,  to  wrench 
apart  the  iron  jaws  of  death  and  extort  an  answer  from  the 
dumb  and  silent  mystery  of  the  tomb.  Not  a  gleam  of  light, 
not  a  ray  of  hope,  not  even  the  dim  twinkling  of  a  distant 
star  comes  from  the  great  and  intellectual  school  of  material- 
ism. Not  a  promise,  not  a  comfort  for  the  living  or  for  the 
dying  brightens  a  single  page  with  which  the  writers  of  that 
school  have  confused  and  darkened  the  counsels  of  mankind. 
The  truth  is,  the  agnostic  in  his  teachings,  however  able  and 
sincere,  leaves  nothing  but  a  blinding  fog  on  the  river  of 
time;  extinguishes  every  signal  light  of  danger  on  its  turbu- 
lent and  deceitful  currents ;  increases  the  care  and  hazard  of 
the  most  skillful  pilots  in  their  soundings  for  true  and  safe 
channels  and  threatens  with  final  wreck  the  weary  soul  in  its 
voyage  as  it  goes  out  over  the  bar  at  the  mouth  of  the  river 
and  into  the  boundless  ocean  of  eternity. 

There  can  indeed  be  but  one  answer  to  this  tremendous 
question,  so  vital,  so  personal  to  all.  The  advent  of  the 
Messiah,  the  inhabitant  of  two  worlds  coming  from  the  realms 
of  eternity  to  the  realms  of  time,  returning  whence  He  came, 
triumphing  over  death  and  robbing  the  grave  of  its  victory, 
furnishes  absolute  proof  beyond  denial  or  discussion  that  an 
immortal  world  exists  and  in  immortal  life.  He  who  walked 
the  waters  and  bade  the  winds  be  still,  alone  of  all  the  mani- 
festations of  power  this  earth  has  ever  known  can  banish  the 
secret  dread,  the  inward  horror  of  falling  into  naught. 

Plato  reasoned  well,  but  the  immortality  of  the  soul,  which 
was  to  him  merely  a  pleasing  hope,  a  dim  uncertainty,  be- 
comes a  proven,  fixed  reality  by  the  coming  of  the  Messiah ; 
by  the  opening  of  the  King's  highway  between  the  two 
worlds,  the  visible  and  the  invisible.  In  His  divinity  He 
came  and  He  went ;  He  passed  from  one  world  to  the  other 
both  ways;  the  route  He  proclaimed  remains,  linking  time 
and  eternity  together  and  affording  to  the  human  soul  its  only 
safe  assurance  that  he  will  live  hereafter.      In  view  of  that 


^^2  A  CI.OUD   OF   WITNESSES. 

divinity,  therefore,  we  listen  without  wonder  or  doubt  to  His 
own  grand  conclusions  of  the  whole  matter,  to  His  only  lofty 
anthem  and  promise  of  eternal  life : 

"I  am  the  resurrection  and  the  life;  he  that  believeth  in 
Me,  though  he  were  dead,  yet  shall  he  live;  and  whosoever 
liveth  and  believeth  in  Me  shall  never  die." 

And  who  is  he  that  would  gainsay  this  paean  of  victory 
for  the  human  soul  in  its  hope  of  immortality?  Who  is  he 
that  would  silence  its  strains  of  peace?  Who  is  he  that 
would  rob  the  parting  soul  of  its  music,  the  beloved  faces 
that  have  gone  before,  making  welcome  from  the  sky?  Who 
is  he  that  would  draw  the  black  curtains  of  annihilation 
around  the  dying  bed  and  bolt  and  bar  the  portals  of  the  tomb 
with  cold  despair?  Who  is  he  that  would  force  entrance  into 
the  chamber  of  death  to  blight  and  destroy  that  sublime  faith 
which  alone  can  pluck  from  the  heart  a  rooted  sorrow  and  dry 
the  tears  of  anguish  which  come  as  a  comforter  in  every  trial, 
which  wreathe  with  smiles  the  dying  face,  even  in  the  bright 
morning  of  life,  in  its  noonday  prime  and  as  the  sun  of  old 
age  is  going  down.  Far  more  merciful  would  it  be  to  put 
poison  in  the  wells  and  fountains  of  burning  deserts  where 
perishing  travelers  stoop  to  drink. 

If  life  is  to  end  here,  a  mere  span  on  the  dial  plate  of  time, 
a  fleeting  shadow  that  abideth  not ;  if  life  here  is  but  the 
insect  existence  of  a  single  summer  season,  then  indeed  may 
the  peasant  and  the  philosopher  and  all  classes  between  them 
make  intense  and  prolonged  inquiry  whether  such  a  life  is 
worth  the  living,  whether  any  intelligent  being  with  free 
choice  would  enter  upon  its  brief,  unsatisfying  scenes,  know- 
ing their  inevitable  termination  to  be  in  the  black  darkness 
of  a  sunless,  starless,  incomprehensible  nihilism ;  in  a  wave- 
less,  motionless,  frozen,  dead  sea  of  annihilation. 

But  away  with  this  vision  of  gloom,  this  dream  of  horror, 
this  nightmare  of  the  soul.  The  Christian  faith  neither  dark- 
ens nor  discredits  the  destiny  of  the  human  race ;  its  mission 
is  one  of  hope,  promise  and  happiness  in  all  pathways  of  life. 
To  all  the  children  of  men  of  every  faith  it  comes  in  bless^ 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  573 

ings ;  to  the  blind  agnostic,  who  is  proud  of  his  blindness,  to 
the  groping  unbeliever,  who  boasts  of  his  darkness,  and  even 
to  the  eloquent  scoffer,  with  his  bitter  tongue,  as  well  as  to 
the  faithful  followers  of  the  Cross — to  one  and  to  all  it  comes 
with  messages  of  truth,  love,  mercy  and  everlasting  life  in 
the  name  of  the  Divine  Master.  —  Volume  /,  ''Forty  Years 
of  Oratory^ ' '  by  Daniel  W.  Voorhees^  edited  by  his  three  sons^ 
and  his  daughter^  Harriet  C.  Voorhees^  published  by  the  Mer- 
rill-Bowen  Company^  Indianapolis  and  Kansas  City, 


MOTTO  TESTIMONIES. 

Religious  convictions  are  often  expressed  in  fewest  words ; 
as  with  sunbeams,  the  more  they  are  condensed  the  deeper 
they  burn.  —  The  Author. 

Guardez  Foy — Guard  the  Faith. — Earl  Poulett. 

En  parole  je  Vis — I  live  in  the  Word. — Lord  Stowell. 

Sub  crucis  Candida — Under  the  fair  Cross. — Lord  Lovell. 

Utcumque placurit  Christo — As  it  pleases  Christ. — Earl  Howe. 

Spes  mea  Christus — Christ  is  my  hope. — Irish  Baron  Lucan. 

Pro  Christo  et  pairia — For  Christ  and  country. — Earl  Kerr. 

Laiis  Christo— Fraise  to  Christ. — Scotch  Viscount  Arbuthnot. 

So/a  salus  Christum — Salvation  only  through  Christ. — Lord  Buchan. 

For  tile  geret  crucetn — Bravely  support  the  Cross. — Earl  Donaghmore. 

Spes  tutissima  Christo — My  safest  hope  is  in  Christ. — Earl  Kingston. 

Sola  salus  servire  Christo — Our  safety  is  in  serving  Christ. — Irish  Earl 
OF  Ross. 

Cruci,  dum  spiro,  fido — While  I  breathe,  I  trust  in  the  Cross. — Irish 
Viscount  Netterville. 

Salus  per  Christum  Redemptorem — Salvation  through  Christ,  the  Re- 
deemer.—Scotch  Earl  of  Moray. 

Fidei  corticula  crux — The  Cross  is  the  touchstone  of  my  Faith. — Earl 
Jersey  and  Earl  Clarendon. 


Robert  Ascham,  *'Father  of  English  Prose''  and  Instruc- 
tor to  Queen  Elizabeth  (1515-1568):  Amongst  all  the  ben- 
efits that  God  has  blessed  me  withal,  next  to  the  knowledge 
of  Christ's  true  religion,  I  count  this  the  greatest  that  it 
pleased  God  to  call  me  to  minister  in  promoting  the  gifts  of 
learning. — From  "  The  Schoolmaster.'*'' 


TYPES  OF  HISTORIC  ROYALTY. 


Lord  Cobham, 

Page  ^43. 
Lord  North, 

Page  ^7^. 
Lord  Lyttleton, 

Page  300. 
Earl  Clarendon, 

Page  244. 


Lord  Burleigh, 

Page  yy. 
Earl  Essex, 

Page  ^y 6. 
Earl  Rochester, 

Page  381. 
Earl  Manchester, 

Page^y^ 


Lord  Chatham, 

Page  362. 
Lord  Ellesmere, 

Page  ^y  6. 
Lord  Hatton, 

Page  220. 
Duke  Devonshire, 

Pjge  ^y^. 


A  CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES.  575 

THE  WITNESS  OF  EARLY  ROYALTY. 


m 


^ORATIO  WALPOIvE,  the  Earl  of  Oxford,  in  his 
b  l^\l  *' Royal  and  Noble  Authors  of  England,  Scotland 
and  Ireland,''  compiled  in  five  volumes  specimens- 
of  the  literature  of  the  sixteenth,  seventeenth  and  eighteenthi 
centuries.  Most  of  the  Royalty  of  that  day  were  ardent 
'^Defenders  of  the  Faith,'*  as  indicated  in  the  condensed 
statements  opposite  their  respective  names: 

ARTHUR,  Earl  of  Anglesey  (  .  .  .  1686):  What  greater  honor  than 
to  be  joined  to  Jesus  Christ  in  any  cause? 

WILLIAM,  Viscount  Grandison  (  .  .  .  1643):  We  are  forewarned  by 
our  Saviour,  "  Not  to  judge  lest  we  be  judged  !  " 

HENRY,  Lord  Delamer,  and  Earl  of  Warrington  (  .  .  .  1734),  ^^^  * 
humble  Christian,  though  he  made  no  bustle  in  the  Church. 

HENRY,  Lord  Morley  (  .  .  .  1667):  Pray  that  Christ  may  teach  your 
right  hand  to  fight.     *'  He  is  the  Way,  the  Truth,  and  the  Life." 

LUCIUS,  Viscount  of  Falkland  (  .  .  .  1643),  not  onh'  publicly  owned 
his  belief  in  Christianity,  but  even  wrote  some  things  thereon. 

DENZIL,  Lord'  Holies  (  .  .  .  1679):  "Fear  God  and  keep  His  com- 
mandments !  "     Our  first  and  last  duty  is  to  love  and  serve  our  good  Master^ 

HENRY,  Lord  Stafford  (  .  .  .  1558):  Our  holy  cause  is  to  be  ascribed 
to  the  setting  forth  of  God's  Holy  Word  !     Thanks  be  to  Almighty  God  ! 

HORATIO,  Lord  Walpole(  .  .  .  1757),  was  a  fervent  advocate  of  Chris- 
tianity ;  enthusiastic  and  constant  in  performing  the  duties  of  religion. 

WILLIAM,  Duke  of  Devonshire  (  .  .  .  1707),  was  a  strong  asserter  or 
the  Christian  religion,  and  died  with  Christian  magnanimity  and  peace. 

THOMAS,  Lord  Fairfax  (  .  .  .  1667),  penned  a  folio  in  his  own  hand  on. 
"The  History  of  the  Church  from  our  Saviour's  time  to  the  Reformation."" 

EDWARD,  Duke  of  Somerset  (  .  .  .  1552):  Physicians  lack  the  thing- 
that  should  heal  the  bone  first — true  faith  in  Jesus  Christ  and  the  Holy  Bible 

JOHN,  Marquis  of  Winchester  (  .  .  .  1651):  Look  on  what  Christ  en- 
dured; then  reproach  yourselves  for  bearing  impatiently  a  few  little  crosses. 

HENRY,  Earl  of  Manchester  (  .  .  .  1642);  In  your  education, son,  my 
first  care  was  to  season  you  with  true  religion  for  a  champion  of  Christianity, 

DUDLEY,  Lord  North  (  .  .  .  t666):  Seek  your  happiness  in  God'* 
bounty  and  grace.  Make  Christ  your  Rock,  and  you  will  have  a  lasting: 
foundation. 

PETER,  Lord  King,  Lord  High  Chancellor  of  England  (  .  .  .  1734)^ 
published  "An  Inquiry  into  the  Constitution,  Unity  and  Worship  of  the 
Early  Church." 

ROBERT,  Earl  of  Ancram  (  .  .  .  1641):  God  give  me  the  will  to  be 
ready  when  He  calleth.  I  pray  He  will  grant  me  leave  "  to  set  my  house  in 
order." 


57^ 


A   CLOUD   OF   WITNESSES. 


FRANCIS,  Viscount  Shannon  (  .  .  .  1698),  was  the  author  of  "  Folly 
of  Atheists  who  furnish  modish  wit  to  rally  at  Christianity  and  the  Holy- 
Book." 

THOMAS,  Lord  Camelford  (  .  .  .  1793):  If  you  are  right  toward  God, 
jou  can  not  be  wrong  toward  man.  Hold  fast  the  sheet  anchor  of  happiness 
— Religion. 

WENTWORTH,  Earl  of  Roscommon  (  .  .  .  1684),  quoted  this  couplet 
at  death:  My  God,  my  Saviour,  and  Friend, 

^  Do  not  forsake  me  at  the  end  ! 

CHARLES,  Earl  of  Derby  (  .  .  .  1698),  was  the  author  of  "The  Prot- 
estant Religion,  a  Certain  Foundation  and  Principle  for  True  Christian 
Subjects." 

THOMAS,  Lord  Delaware  (  .  .  .  1618),  is  characterized,  thus: 
Lord  Delaware,  it  is  for  Christ's  dear  Word, 
Ye  shall  be  surnam'd  the  most  Christian  lord  ! 

JAMES,  Marquis  of  Montrose  (  .  .  .  1650): 

Open  all  my  veins,  that  I  may  swim 

To  Thee,  my  Saviour,  in  the  crimson  lake  ! 

ROBERT,  Earl  of  Essex  (  .  .  .  1646):  I  promise  Almighty  God  that  I 
shall  undertake  nothing  but  shall  tend  to  the  advancement  of  the  Christian 
faith. 

GEORGE,  Earl  of  Macclesfield,  Lord  High  Chancellor  of  England 
(  .  .  .  1732),  retired  the  last  eight  years  of  his  life  at  Derby,  where  he  died 
a  Christian. 

ROBERT,  Lord  Brooke  (  .  .  .  1642):  Some,  without  warrant,  run  away 
from  their  calling  and  take  up  a  fruitless  Christianity  without  the  least  dram 
of  life  or  power. 

LORD  ELLESMERE,  Twenty-one  years  Lord  High  Chancellor  of 
England  (  .  .  .  1617):  I  am  unable  to  attend  the  burdens  of  my  office  longer 
and  have  come  to  Paul's  desire,  "  To  depart  and  be  with  Christ." 

JOHN,  Viscount  Barrington  (  .  .  •  1727):  I  have  endeavored  to  give 
an  abstract  of  all  Scripture-history  of  the  Apostles  ;  the  steps  by  which  they 
were  directed  to  spread  our  Christian  religion. 

DANIEL,  Earl  of  Nottingham  (  .  .  .  1730),  discoursed  on  "The  Eter- 
nity of  the  Son  of  God  and  the  Holy  Ghost."  The  University  of  Oxford 
returned  him  thanks  for  "his  noble  defence  of  the  Christian  faith." 

WALTER,  Earl  of  Essex  (  .  .  .  1576): 

Now  blessed  be  the  Father  first, 

And  blessed  be  the  Son, 
And  blessed  be  the  Holy  Ghost, 

By  Whom  are  all  things  done. 

HENRY,  Lord  Arundell,  of  Wardnour  (  .  .  .  1614): 

Lord,  set  my  warring  heart  from  passion  free, 
That  it  may  never  love  anything  but  Thee, 
So  shall  my  soul  a  double  conquest  prove. 
Bought  by  Thy  blood,  and  conquered  by  Thy  love. 

EDWARD,  Earl  of  Dorset  (  .  .  .  1652).  This  statement  does  not  ap- 
pear in  Walpole's  "Royal  and  Noble  Authors,"  but  is  an  extract  from  Earl 
Dorset's  Address  delivered  in  the  Star  Chamber,  February,  1643:  "Our 
blessed  Saviour,  when  He  conversed  on  earth,  chose  apostles  whom  He  sent 
after  Him  into  the  world,  saying:  'Ite,  prcedicate,^  to  show  the  way  of  salva- 
tion to  mankind." 


GENERAL  INDEX. 

CLASSIFIED  ACCORDING  TO  PROFESSIONS. 

ARTISTS:  Musicians,  Painters,  Sculptors.  pagb 

Allston,  Washington,  Painter, ii 

Angelo,  Michael,  Italian  Painter  and  Sculptor 15 

Bach,  Johann  Sebastian,  German  Musical  Composer,  .    .    21 

Bacon,  John,  English  Sculptor 23 

Beethoven,  Ludwig  Van,  Prussian  Musical  Composer,  .    .    29 

Copley,  John  Singleton,  Painter, 105 

DoANE,  William  Howard,  Composer  of  H3'mn  Music,  .  .  132 
DoRE,  Paul  Gustave,  French  Painter  and  Sculptor,    .    .    .132 

DuRER,  Albert,  German  Painter  and  Engraver, 137 

FusELi,  John  Henry,  Swiss  Painter  in  England, 156 

Gounod,  Charles  Francois,  French  Musical  Composer,  .  179 
Handel,  George  Friedrich,  German  Musical  Composer,  .212 
Hastings,  Thomas,  Musical  Composer  and  Hymn-Writer,  .218 
Haydn,  Franz  Joseph,  German  Musical  Composer,    .   .    .  220 

Jefferson,  Joseph,  Actor, 251 

Liszt,  Franz,  Hungarian  Pianist  and  Composer, 286 

Mason,  Lowell,  Church  Music  Composer, 324 

MiLLAis,  Sir  John,  Late  President  Royal  Academ5^  .  .  .  335 
Mozart,  Wolfgang  Amadeus,  German  Musical  Composer,  332 
MuRiLLO,  Bartolme  Esterban,  Spanish  Painter,  ....  335 
OvERBECK,  Johann  Friedrich,  German  Painter;  Reviver 

of  "Christian  Art"  in  the  Nineteenth  Century,  ....  346 

Rubens,  Peter  Paul,  Flemish  Painter, 387 

Sankey,  Ira  David,  Vocalist,  Composer  of  Sacred  Music,  .  393 

Story,  William  Wetmore,  Sculptor, 434 

TissoT,  James,  P'rench  Painter, 452 

Titian  (Tiziano  Vecellio),  Venetian  Painter, 454 

Vinci,  Leonardo  Da,  Florentine  Painter, 477 

Wagner,  Wilhelm  Richard,  German  Musical  Composer,  479 

AUTHORS :  Essayists,  Novelists ;  Art,  Prose  and  Story-Writers. 

Adams,  William  Taylor,  "Oliver  Optic,"  Story- Writer,    .  4 

Amiel,  Henri  Frederic,  Swiss  Prose  Writer, 12 

Andersen,  Hans  Christian,  Novelist, 13 

Arnold,  Matthew,  English  Essayist  and  Poet, 18 

Arthur,  Timothy  Shay,  Story-Writer, 19 

Bellamy,  Edward,  Author  of  "  Looking  Backward,"  ...  41 

BjORNSON,  BjORNSTjERNE,  Norwegian  Writer  and  Poet,  .    .  62 

BoTTA,  ViNCENZO,  Author  of  Text-Books, 40 

BouRGET,  Paul,  French  Novelist, 40 

Bruyere,  de  la  Jean,  French  Author  and  Moralist,    ...  60 

Bulwer-Lytton,  Edward  George,  Biitish  Novelist,  ...  59 


GENERAL    INDEX. 

PAGE 

BuRRiTT,  E1.IHU,  Popular  Writer  and  Linguist, 62 

BuTTERWORTH,  Hezekiah,  Story-Writer, 66 

Cable,  George  Washington,  Critical  Writer  and  Lecturer,  70 

Caine,  Thomas  Henry  Hall,  British  Novelist, 80 

Carlyle,  Thomas,  British  Essayist  and  Historian,  ....  73 
Chambers,  Robert,  Scottish  Writer  and  Publisher,  ....  78 
Chateaubriand,  Francois  Auguste,  French  Writer,    .    .    81 

Crawford,  Francis  Marion,  British  Novelist, 71 

Cruden,  Alexander,  English  Compiler  of  "A  Complete 

Concordance  to  the  Holy  Scriptures," ;  106 

Cumberland,  Richard,  English    Dramatist;    Miscellane- 
ous Writer, 107 

Defoe  Daniel,  English  Novelist;    Author  of  "Robinson 

Crusoe,"      116 

De  Quincey,  Thomas,  English  Writer ;  Author  of  "The  Con- 
fessions of  an  English  Opium-Eater," 123 

Dickens,  Charles,  English  Novelist, 125 

Ebers,  George  Moritz,  German  Story- Writer  and  Egypt- 
ologist,  .    .    .    .  , 140 

Fielding,  Henry,  English  Novelist, 149 

Hardenberg,  Friedrich  Von,  German  Author,    .    .    .    .214 

Hawthorne,  Julian,  Author 222 

Hawthorne,  Nathaniel,  Novelist  and  Poet, 221 

Hazlitt,  William,  English  Prose  Writer, 222 

Helps,  Sir  Arthur,  English  Essayist  and  Historian,  .  .  .  226 
Holland,  Josiah  Gilbert,  Novelist,  Poet,  and  Editor,  .    .  232 

HowELLS,  William  Dean,  Novelist, 238 

HowiTT,  William,  English  Essajdst  and  Poet, 239 

Hughes.Thomas,  English  Author :  "  Tom  Brown's  School 

Days,"  "  Tom  Brown  at  Oxford,"  etc 240 

Hugo,  Victor  Marie,  French  Romance  Writer,  Poet,  States- 
man,  243 

Irving,  Washington,  Novelist,  Biographer,  and  Diplomat,  246 
JENYNS,  Soame,  English  Writer;  Member  of  Parliament,  .  253 
Johnson,  Samuel,  English  Lexicographer  and  Writer,    .    .256 

Kipling,  Rudyard,  British  Novelist, After  266 

Lacroix.  Paul,  French  Art  Writer, 271 

Lamb,  Charles,  English  Essayist  and  Poet, 271 

IvAndor,  Walter  Savage,  English  Classic  Writer,  Essay- 
ist, and  Poet, 274 

lyANMAN,  Charles,  Biographical  Writer, 273 

Lathrop,  George  Parsons,  Author,  Journalist,  Poet,    .    .274 

Le  Gallienne,  Richard,  British  Essayist, 272 

TvESSiNG,  GoTTHOLD  Ephraim,  German  Story- Writer,        .281 
IviEBER,  Francis,  Publicist;  Professor  of  Political   Econ- 
omy, Columbia  College  Law  School, 283 


GENERAL    INDEX. 

PAGS 

Mathews,  William,  Prose  Writer, 309 

Montaigne,  Michel  De,   French  Essayist  and  Philoso- 
pher,    322 

Neal,  John,  Novelist 340 

Oliphant,  Laurence,  English  Writer  and  Traveler,  .    .    .  345 

Palgrave,  Francis  Turner,  English  Art  Critic, 349 

Reade,  Charles,  English  Novelist  and  Prose  Writer,   .    .  377 

Richter,  Jean  Paul  Fred,  German  Waiter, 379 

Rochester,  John  Wilmot,  English  Writer  and  Courtier,  .  381 

Scott,  Sir  Walter,  Scottish  Novelist  and  Poet, 399 

Smiles,  Samuel,  Scottish  Essayist, 413 

SouvESTRE,  Emile,  French  Novelist, .    ...  419 

Stael,  Baron  Auguste  De,  French  Statesman, 421 

Steele,  Sir  Richard,  English  Essayist, 427 

Stevenson,  Robert  Louis,  British  Novelist, 430 

Symonds,  John,  British  Critic, 417 

Thackeray,  William  Makepeace,  English  Novelist,  .   .  454 

Tolstoi,  Count  Lyop  N.,  Russian  Novelist,      465 

Trollope,  Anthony,  English  Novelist, 466 

Wallace,  Lew,  Author :  "  Ben-Hur,"  •'  The  Prince  of  India," 

etc.;  Diplomat,  Major-General  in  Civil  War, 480 

Walton,  Izaak,  English  Writer ;  Author  of  •'  The  Complete 

Angler,"     . 482 

Warner,  Charles  Dudley,  Prose  Writer, 489 

Webster,  Noah,  Lexicographer:   "Webster's  Unabridged 

Dictionary," 494 

West,  Gilbert,  English  Writer, 497 

Whipple,  Edwin  Percy,  Essayist  and  Critic, 499 

Wilson,  James  Grant,  Prose  Writer ;  General  in  Civil  War,  509 
Wilson,  John  ("Christopher  North"),  Scottish  Writer; 

Educator, 510 

Chief  and  Associate  Justices  of  United  States  Supreme  Court;  Lord 
High  Chancellors  and  Lord  Chief  Justices  of  England. 

Abbott,  Charles,  Lord   Tenterden,  Chief  Justice  of 

England, 9 

Brewer,  David  Josiah,  Associate  Justice,  V.  S.  Supreme 

Court, 46 

Bruce,  Sir  Gainsford,  Justice,  High  Court  of  England,  .    52 
Chase,  Salmon   Portland,  Chief  Justice,  U.  S.  Supreme 

Court, 79 

Coke,  Sir  Edward,  Lord  Chief  Justice  of  England,    ...    91 
Denman,  Thomas,  Lord  Chief  Justice  of  England,  .    .    .    .121 
Eldon,  Lord  John  Scott,  Lord  High  Chancellor  of  Eng- 
land,     139 

Ellenbrough,  Lord,  Chief  Justice  of  England, 140 


GENERAL   INDEX. 

PAGE 
EivivSWORTH,  Oliver,  Chief  Justice.  U.  S.  Supreme  Court,  .  141 
Erskine,  Thomas,  Lord  High  Chancellor  of  England,  .  .  142 
Fletcher,  Richard,  Judge    of  Massachusetts   Supreme 

Court 152 

Hale,  Sir  Matthew,  lyord  Chief  Justice  of  England,    .   .  205 
Halsbury,  Lord,  The  Right  Honorable  Lord  High  Chan- 
cellor of  England, 206 

Hatton,  Sir  Christopher,  Lord  High  Chancellor  of  Eng- 
land,     219 

Herschell,  Eord,  late  Lord  High  Chancellor  of  England,  242 
Jay,  John,  First  Chief  Justice,  U.  S.  Supreme  Court,    .    .    .251 
Kenyon,  Lord,  Chief  Justice  of  England,    .    .    ...    ...  265 

Lamar,  Lucius  Q.  C,  Justice,  U.  S.  Supreme  Court,      .    .    .  294 
Logan,  James,  Chief  Justice,  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsyl- 
vania,   288 

Lumpkin,  Joseph   Henry,  Chief  Justice,  Supreme  Court 

Georgia, , 298 

McCalmont,  Hugh,    "  Lord    Cairns,"  Twice   Lord    High 

Chancellor   of  England, 311 

McLean,  John,  Justice,  U.  S.  Supreme  Court, 314 

Marshall,  John,  Chief  Justice,  U.  S.  Supreme  Court,  .  .  308 
More,  Sir  Thomas,  Lord  High  C-iancellor  of  Great  Britain,  324 
Murray,  William,  "  Earl  of  Mansfield,"  Lord  Chief  Justice 

of  England, 337 

Parsons,  Theophilus,  Chief  Justice,  Massachusetts   Su- 
preme Court, 367 

Philips,  John  Finis,  Judge  in  U.  S.  District  Court,  .  .  .  359 
Rush,  Jacob,  Chief  Justice,  Supreme  Court  of  Penns3^1vania,  388 
Story,  Joseph,  Chief  Justice,  U.  S.  Supreme  Court,     .    .    .  434 

Strong,  William,  JUvStice  U.  S.  Supreme  Court, 433 

Waite,  Morrison  Remick,  Chief  Justice,  United  States  Su- 
preme Court, 478 

Walworth,  Reuben  Hyde,  Last  of  the  Chancellors  of  New 

York, .483 

Wood,  W.  Page,  "  Eord  Hatherley,"  Lord  High  Chancellor 

of  England, 518 

EDUCATORS:  Presidents  and  Professors  of  Colleges. 

Adams,  Charles  Kendall,  President  of  the  University  of 

Wisconsin, 2 

Angell.  James  Burrill,  President  of  the  University  of 

Michigan, 14 

Baker,  James  H.,  President  of  the  University  of  Colorado,  23 
Bateman,  Newton,  Late  President  of  Knox  College,  .  .  26 
Blackie,  John  Stuart,  Professor  of  Greek,  University  of 

Edinburg;    Scotch  Poet  and  Author, 33 


GENERAL    INDEX. 

PAGir 

Boise,  James  Robinson,  Professor  of  Greek  in  the  Univer- 
sity of  Michigan,  1852-1868,  and  later  of  University  of 

Chicago, 35 

BowEN,  Francis,  Professor  of  Moral  Philosophy,  Harvard 

College, 41 

BoYESEN,  HjAivMAR  HjORTH,  Professorof  German,  Columbia 

College, 43 

Bradshear,  William  M.,  President  Iowa  State  College,  .    45 
Calderwood,  Henry,  Professor  of  Moral  Philosophy,  Uni- 
versity of  Edinburg, 69 

Carter,  Franklin,  President  of  Williams  College,  ....    75 
Cochran,  David   Henry,  President  of  Polj^technic  Insti- 
tute,      90 

Cooke,  Josias  Parsons,  Professor  of  Chemistry  and  Min- 
eralogy, Harvard  College, 96 

Coulter,  John  Merle,  President  Lake  Forest  University,  99 
CusT,  Robert  Needham,  British  Oriental  Linguist,  ...  94 
Dabney,  Charles  William,  President  of  University  of 

Tennessee, iii 

Davis,  Noah  KnowleS,  Professor  of  Moral  Philosophy,  Uni- 
versity of  Virginia, 115, 

Draper,  Andrew  S.,  President  of  University  of  Illinois,  .  .  163 
Ely,  Richard  Theodore,  Professor  of  Political  Economy, 

University  of  Wiscon.sin 142 

Fetterolf,  a.  H.,  President  of  Girard  College, 150 

Fulton,  Robert  B.,  President  University  of  Mississippi,    .  163, 
Gates,  Merrill  Edwards,  President  of  Amherst  College,  .  167 
Gilman,  Daniel  Colt,  President  of  Johns  Hopkins  Univer- 
sity,      169 

Harper,  William  Rainey,  President  of  the  University  of 

Chicago, 214 

Hill,  David  Jayne,  President  of  the  University  of  Roches- 
ter  229 

Jesse,  Richard  Henry,  President  of  the  University  of 

Missouri, 254 

Johnston,  William  Preston,  President  Tulane   Univer- 
sity of  Louisiana, 257 

Jones,  Richard   C,  President  of  the  University  of  Ala- 
bama  257 

Jones,  Stephen  A.,  President  of  Nevada  State  University,  260 
Jordan,  David  Starr,  President  of  the  Leland  Stanford, 

Jr.,  University, • 260 

KiRKWOOD,  Daniel,  Professor  of  Mathematics  and  Astron- 
omy, Indiana  University, 269 


GENERAL   INDEX. 

PAGE 

IvEWis,  Tayler,  Late  Professor  of  Greek  in  Union  College,  283 
Xoos,  Charles  Louis,  President  of  Kentucky  University,  .  293 

Low,  Seth,  President  of  Columbia  College, 294 

McDowell,  William  F.,  Chancellor,  University  of  Denver,  312 
MacLean,  George  E.,  Chancellor  of  University  of  Nebraska,304 
Mann,  Horace,  late  President  of  Antioch  College;  Author,  308 
Mauck,  Joseph  W.,  President  of  the  University  of  South 

Dakota 309 

Morton,  Henry,  President  Stevens  College  of  Technology,  329 
MosHER,  George  F.,  President  of  Hillsdale  College,  .  .  .331 
MuiR,  Sir  William,  Principal  of  University  of  Edinburg,  334 
MULLER,  Friederich  Max,  Professor  of  German-Sanscrit 

in  University  of  Oxford, 333 

Murray,  Lindley,  Grammarian, 337 

INoRTHROP,  Cyrus,  President  of  the  University  of  Minnesota,  342 
Olney,  Edward,  Professor  of  Mathematics  in  University 
of  Michigan,  1863-1887;  Author  of  Series  Mathematical 

Text-Books, 344 

Page,  David  Perkins,  First  Principal  of  Normal  School, 

New  York, 347 

Payne,  William  Harold,  Chancellor  of  the  University  of 

Nashville, 353 

Purinton,  Daniel  Boardman,  President  of   Denison 

University, 368 

Quackenbos,  John  Duncan,  Professor  of  English  Lan- 
guage and  Literature,  Columbia  College, 370 

^UiNCY,  JosiAH,  former  President  of  Harvard  College,     .    .  370 
P.OGERS,  Henry  Wade,  President  of  North- Western  Univer- 
sity ;  late  Dean  of  Law  School,  University  of  Michigan,  384 
^CHMiTz,   LEONhard,    German   Philologist;    Principal    of 

London  College  of  International  Educational  Society,  .  397 
Schurman,  Jacob  Gould,  President  of  Cornell  University,  400 
■Shairp,  John  Campbell,  Principal  of  United  College,  St. 

Andrews ;  Professor  of  Poetry  at  Oxford ;  Author,  .  .  .  403 
Shaler,  Nathaniel  Southgate,  Professor  of  Geology  in 

Harvard  College,      406 

Snow,  Francis  H.,  President  of  the  University  of  Kansas,  415 
Steele,  Joel  Dorman,  Author  of  Scientific  Text-Books,  .  427 
Super,  Charles  W.,  President  of  Ohio  University,  .   .    .   .436 

Swain,  Joseph,  President  of  Indiana  University, 438 

Taylor,  James  M.,  Professor  of  Mathematics  in  Colgate 

University, 446 


GENERAL    INDEX. 

PAG« 

Thomson,  Sir  Wiluam,  "  Lord  Kelvin,"  Professor  of  Natu- 
ral Philosophy  in  the  University  of  Glasgow 460 

Thornton,  Wilwam  M.,  President  of  the  University  of 

Virginia, 459 

Tucker,  John  Randoi^ph,  Dean  of  Law  School,  Washing- 
ton and  Lee  University, 467 

Webb,  A1.EXANDER  Stuart,  President  of  College  of  the 

City  of  New  York ;  Major-General  in  Civil  War,     .    .    .  490 

Webster,  Harrison  Edwin,  President  of  Union  College,  494 

WeI/Ung,  James  Clarke,  President  of  Columbia  College,  496 

Wheeler,   Benjamin   Ide,   Professor  of  Greek,   Cornell 

University, 498 

Williams,  SirM.  Monier,  Professor  of  Sanscrit,  University 

of  Oxford, 506 

Wilson,  John  Moulder,  Superintendent  of  the  United 
States  Military  Academy,  West  Point;  Colonel  of 
Engineers, 510 

Wilson,  Sir  Daniel,  President  of  the  University  of  Toronto,  512 

Winston,   George   T.,  Late   President   of   University   of 

North  Carolina 515 

WooDROW,  James,  President  of  South  Carolina  College   .    .  519 

Young,  Charles  Augustus,  Professor  of  Astronomy  in 

Princeton  College 527 

EXPLORERS  AND  FOUNDERS. 

Bienville,  Jean   Baptiste  Lemoyne,  Founder  of  New 

Orleans ;  Colonial  Governor  of  Louisiana, 32 

Calvert,   Sir  Leonard,  "Lord  Baltimore,"  Founder  of 

Maryland, 69 

Cartier,  Jacques,  French  Navigator  and  Explorer,     ...    76 
Columbus,  Christopher,  Genoese  Discoverer  of  America,    95 
Hayes,  Isaac  Israel,  Arctic  Explorer,  Surgeon  and  Natur- 
alist,     223 

JEPHSON,  A.  J.  MouNTENKY,  African  Explorer  with  Stanley,  254 

Livingstone,  David,  Scottish  Explorer  in  Africa 287 

Park,  Mungo,  Scottish  Explorer  in  Africa, 350 

Parry,  Sir  William  Edward,  English  Rear-Admiral  and 

Arctic  Explorer, 352 

Penn,  William,  Founder  of  Pennsylvania, 355 

Raleigh,  Sir  Walter,  English  Navigator  and  Courtier,    .  371 
Stanley,  Henry  Morton,  English  Explorer  into  "  Darkest 

Africa." 422 


GENERAL    INDEX. 

FINANCIERS.  p^gbt 

Barnes  Alfred  Smith,  Publisher  and  Philanthropist,  .  .  27 
Colgate,  Samuel,  Manufacturer  and  Philanthropist,  ...  93 
Crozer,  John  Price,  Manufacturer  and  Philanthropist,  .  .103. 
Dodge,  William  Earl,  Merchant  and  Philanthropist,  .  .  133 
Dodge,  William  Earl,  Jr.,  Merchant;  President  of  the 

Evangelical  Alliance, 131 

Farwell,  John  Villiers,  Capitalist, 148 

lyAWRENCE,  Abbott,  Merchant  and  Diplomat, 275 

Lawrence,  Amos,  Merchant  and  Philanthropist, 275 

Levering,  Joshua,  Manufacturer  and  Philanthropist,  .  .  282 
Lubbock,  Sir  John,  President   of  London    Chamber   of 

Commerce ;  Banker ;  Member  of  Parliament, 297 

Moore,  George,  English  Manufacturer  and  Philanthropist,  323 

Pyle,  James,  Manufacturer, 368- 

Vanderbilt,  Cornelius,  Capitalist  and  Philanthropist,  .  473 
Wanamaker,  John,  Merchant;  Postmaster-General  under 

President  Harrison 482^ 

GOVERNORS  OF  STATES.* 

Adams,  Alva,  Governor  of  Colorado, i8a 

Beaver,  James  A.,  Governor  of  Pennsylvania,    ...    ...  19a 

Biggs,  Benjamin  T.,  Governor  of  Delaware, i8i 

Burleigh,  Edwin  C,  Governor  of  Maine, 184 

Davis,  John  W.,  Governor  of  Rhode  Island, 113 

Dillingham,  W.  P.,  Governor  of  Vermont, 130- 

Ferry,  Elisha  P.,  Governor  of  Washington, 192 

Flower,  RoswELL  P.,  Governor  of  New  York, 188 

FoRAKER,  Joseph  Benson,  Governor  of  Ohio, 189 

Francis,  David  R.,  Governor  of  Missouri, 186 

Fuller,  Levi  K.,  Governor  of  Vermont, 192 

Gray,  Isaac  Pusey,  Governor  of  Indiana, 183 

Green,  Robert  Stockton,  Governor  of  New  Jersey,  .  .  .  188- 
Hogg,  J.  S.,  Governor  of  Texas,  191 

Hughes,  Simon  P.,  Governor  of  Arkansas, 179 

Humphrey,  Lyman  U.,  Governor  of  Kansas, 183 

Jackson,  Elihu  E.,  Governor  of  Maryland, 184 

Jackson,  Frank  D.,  Governor  of  Iowa, 182 

Johnston,  Joseph  F.,  Governor  of  Alabama, 179 

LouNSBURY,  P.  C,  Governor  of  Connecticut, 180 

Lo WRY,  Robert,  Governor  of  Mississippi, 185 

♦Their  Autograph  Testimonies  were  secured  while  Governors  of  States  from  1889  ta 
J893  inclusive. 


GENERAL    INDEX. 

PAGB 

JLucE,  Cyrus  G.,  Governor  of  Michigan, 185 

McCoNNELL,  W.  J.,  Governor  of  Idaho, 182 

McCreary,  James  B.,  Governor  of  Kentucky, 183 

lUcGiLL,  A.  R.,  Governor  of  Minnesota, 185 

Markham,  H.  H.,  Governor  of  California, 180 

Mellette,  A.  C,  Governor  of  South  Dakota, 191 

NoRTHEN,  W.  J.,  Governor  of  Georgia, 181 

Pennoyer,  Sylvester,  Governor  of  Oregon, 189 

Perry,  Edward  A.,  Governor  of  Florida, 181 

Richardson,  John  P.,  Governor  of  South  Carolina,      ,   .   .  190 

Roosevelt,  Theodore.  Governor  of  New  York, 381 

Rusk,  Jeremiah  McLain,  Governor  of  Wisconsin,   .   .    .   .  193 

Scales,  Alfred  M.,  Governor  of  North  Carolina, 189 

Ste\^nson,  C.  C,  Governor  of  Nevada, 187 

Tapt,  Royal  C,  Governor  of  Rhode  Island 190 

Taylor,  Robert  L.,  Governor  of  Tennessee, 191 

Thayer,  John  M.,  Governor  of  Nebraska, 186 

Toole,  Joseph  K.,  Governor  of  Montana, 186 

TuTTLE,  Hiram  A.,  Governor  of  New  Hampshire, 187 

Washburn,  Emory,  Governor  of  Massachussetts 184 

W^iLSON,  C.  W.,  Governor  of  West  Virginia 193 

Wise,  John  Sergeant.  Governor  of  Virginia 192 

HISTORIANS. 

Alison,  Sir  Archibald,  Scottish  Historian  and  Essayist,  .    1 1 

Bancroft,  George, 24 

Cantu,  Cesare,  Italian  Historian, -j-j 

Froude.  James  Anthony,  English  Historian, 161 

Green,  John  Richard,  British  Historian, 173 

Guizot,  Francois  Pierre  Guillaume,  French  Historian,  201 
Leckv,  William  Edward  Hartpole,  English  Historian,  2-]-] 

LuBKE,  WiLHELM,  German  Historian  of  Art, 297 

Macaulay,  Thomas  Babington,  English  Historian,  .  .  .  301 
Macintosh,  Sir  James,  British  Historian  and  Statesman,  .  304 
Menzel,  Wolfgang,  German  Historian  and  Critic,  .  .  .312 
Motley,  John  Lothrop,  Historian  and  Diplomat,    ....  330 

MuLLER,  Johannes  Von,  Swiss  Historian, 336 

Niebuhr,    Barthold    Georg,   German     Historian     and 

Philologist  ....     • 339 

Prescott,  William  Hickling, 367 

Ranke,  Leopold,  German  Historian, 375 

RoLLiN,  Charles,  French  Historian, 385 

Stephen,  Sir  James,  British  Historian ;  Author ;  Professor 

of  Modern  History-,  University  of  Cambridge, 428 

TiMAYENis,  T.  T.,  Greek  Historian 463 

Turner,  Sharon,  English  Historian, 470 

Tytler.   Alexander    Fraser,    Scottish    Historian    and 

Jurist 470 


GENERAI^    INDEX. 
HUMORISTS.  PAGE 

Bailey,  James  Montgomery,  "Danbury  News  Man,"  .  .  21 
BuRDETTE,  Robert  Jones,  "  Burlington  Hawkeye  Man,"    .    61 

C1.EMENS,  Samuel  Langhorne,  "  Mark  Twain," 88 

Landon,  Melville  D.,  "  Eli  Perkins," 272 

Nye,  Edgar  Wilson,  "  Bill  Nye," 342 

Shaw,  Henry  Wheeler,  "  Josh  Billings," 418 

INVENTORS. 

Ampere,  Andre  Marie,  French  Electrician  and  Writer,  .  13 
Field,  Cyrus  West,  Projector  of  the  Atlantic  Cable,  ...  149 
Gutenberg,  Johann,  German  Inventor  of  Printing,  .  .  .  202 
Morse,  Samuel  Finley  Breese,  Inventor  of  the  Telegraph,  327 
Napier,  John,  Scottish  Inventor  of  Logarithms, 339 

JOURNALISTS. 

Alden,  Henry  Mills,  Managing  Editor  Harper^ s  Maga- 
zine,          7 

Bayne,  Peter,  Scottish  Jotirnalist  and  Author, 29 

Blowitz,  De  Henry  Georges  S.  O.,  Paris  Correspondent 

London  Times, 47 

Bok.  Edward  W..  Editor  of  The  Ladies'  Home  Journal,  .  20 
Bross,  William,  late  Editor  of  the  Chicago  Tribune,  ...  49 
Brown,  Charles  Brockden,  Journalist  and  Author,  ...  51 
Coffin,  Charles  Carleton,  War  Correspondent ;  Popular 

Lecturer  and  Author, 89 

Curtis,  George  William,  late  Editor  of  The  Harper's 

Weekly, no 

Dana,  Charles  Anderson,  Editor  of  The  Sun,  New  York,  112 
Gilder,  Richard  Watson,  Editor  of  The  Century,  .  .  .170 
Grady,  Henry  Woodpin,  late  Editor  Atlanta  Constitution,  168 
Greeley,  Horace,  late  Editor  of  The  Tribune,  New  York,  197 
Knight,  Charles,  English  Editor,  Publisher,  and  Author,  .  270 
Kohlsaat,  Herman  H.,  Publisher  Chicago  Times-Herald,  .  268 
Massingham,  H.  W.,  Editor-in-Chief,  The  Daily  Chronicle,  334 

MicHAUD,  Joseph  Francois,  French  Journalist, 316 

Nordhoff,  Charles,  Journalist  and  Author, 339 

REID,  WhitELAW,  Editor  of  The  Tribune,  New  York,  .  .  .  378 
Richardson,  Charles  Francis,  Journalist,  Author,  .  .  .  378 
Shepard,  Elliott  Fitch,  Late  Editor  of  The  Mail  and 

Express, 408 

Stead,  William  T.,  English  Journalist ;  Editor  of  The  Re- 
view of  Reviews, 425 

Walker,  John  Brisben,  Editor  of  The  Cosmopolitan,  .   .   .  488 
Watterson,  Henry,  Editor  of  The  Courier-Journal,  Louis- 
ville,     489 

Weed,  Thurlow,  Journalist, 495 


GENERAL    INDEX. 

KINQS:  Nobility,  Royal  Officials. 

Adolphus,  Gustavus,  King  of  Sweden, S 

AiTCHESON,  Sir    Charles,  Lieutenant-Governor   of  the 

Punjab, ^ 

Albert,  His  Royal  Highness  Arthur  William  Patrick,     9 

Arthur,  "  Duke  of  Connaught," 9 

Bernstorpf,  A.,  Count  of  Germany, 34. 

Bonaparte,  Napoleon  I.,  Emperor  of  the  French,  ...    .    3S 

Bruce,  Robert,  King  of  Scots, 54. 

Chambord,  Henri  -  Charles  -  Ferdinand  -  Marie  -  Dieu- 
donne.  Head  of  the  Elder  Branch  of  the  Bourbon 

Dynasty, 75 

Charles  I.,  King  of  England,     79 

Charles  V.,  King  of  Germany ;  King  of  Spain  as  Charles  I.,     81 
Cromwell,  Oliver,  Lord  Protector  of  the  English  Com- 
monwealth,     104 

Diet  of  Spires  :  John  of  Saxony ;  Ernest  of  Luneburg, 

Philip  of  Hesse, i26- 

Durand,  Sir  Henry,  late  Governor-General  of  the  Punjab,  122 

Edward  VI.,  King  of  England, 141 

Elliott,  Sir  Charles  A.,  late  Lieut.-Governor  of  Bengal,  144 

Francis  Joseph  I.,  Emperor  of  Austria, 162 

Frederick  IH.,  King  of  Prussia  and  Emperor  of  Germany,  i6c> 

Frederick  William  IV.,  King  of  Prussia, 161 

FrerE,  Sir  Bartle,  late  Governor  of  Bombay,     ....       160 
Frontenac,  Louis  de  Baude,  Governor  of  New  France,    .  165 

George  TIL,  King  of  Great  Britain.  . 169 

Gordon,  The  Right  Honorable  John  Campbell,  Sixth 

Earl  of  Aberdeen ;  Governor-General  of  Canada,     .    .    .177 
Grant,  Sir  Robert,  late  Governor  of  Bombay;  Poet,     .    .  167 

Haddo,  Lord,  Fifth  Earl  of  Aberdeen, 205 

Harrowby.  The  Right  Honorable,  The  Earl  of,  .   .    .    .217 

Henry  IV.,  King  of  France, 237 

Herschell,  Lord  Farrar,  Late  Chancellor  of  England,  .  242 
Holy    Alliance:     Alexander   I.,  Emperor  of   Russia; 
Francis  I.,  Emperor  of  Austria;  Frederick  III.,  King 

of  Prussia, 235 

Hyde,  Edward,  First  Earl  of  Clarendon,  English  Historian,  244 
Kelly,  Thomas,  Lord  Mayor  of  London  at  the  Accession 

of  Queen  Victoria, 267 

Kinnaird,  The  Right  Honorable,  Scottish  Financier,    .  260 
Lawrence.  Lord  John  Laird  Mair,  Viceroy  of  India,  .    .  276 


GENERAL    INDEX. 

PAGE 

Louis  IX.,  King  of  France, .    .  293 

McIvEOD,   Sir    Donald   F.,   late   Lieutenant-Governor  of 

the  Punjab, 328 

Medici,  Lorenzo  De,  Prince  of  Florence;  Poet,       .   .    .    .314 

Metternich,  Clemens  W.,  Prince;  Diplomat, 322 

Nicholas  II.,  Czar  of  Russia, .    .    .  339 

Northbrook,  The  Right  Honorable,  The  Earl  of,  Vice- 
roy; Governor-General  of  India, 340 

OvERTouN,  The  Right  Honorable,  Scottish  Peer,    .   .   .  346 

Pedro,  Dom  II.,  late  Emperor  of  Brazil, 356 

Peter  The  Great  (Peter  I.),  Czar  of  Russia, 365 

Queen  Victoria, 476 

Savory,  Sir  Joseph,  late  Lord  Mayor  of  London,  ....  393 
Shore,  John,  "  Lord  Teignmouth,"  Gov.-Gen.  of  India,  .  .  409 
Stanley,  James,  Seventh  Earl  of  Derby;  Royalist, .  .  .  424 
Thiers,  Louis  Adolphe,  late  President  French  Republic,  .  459 
TiLLEY,  Sir  Samuel  Leonard,  Lieutenant-Governor  of 

New  Brunswick, 463 

Wentworth,  Sir  Thomas,  Earl  of  Strafford, 496 

William  I.,  King  of  Prussia  and  Emperor  of  Germany,   .    .  504 
William  IL,  present  King  of  Prussia  and  Emperor  of  Ger- 
many,      506 

William  the  Silent,  Prince  of  Orange ;  Founder  of  the 

Dutch  Republic, 505 

William  III.,  King  of  England, 529 

Wilson,  Sir  Charles,  Director-General  of  the  Ordinance 

Survey  of  England, 511 

Wood,  Charles  Lindley,  "  Viscount  Halifax," 527 

LAWYERS. 

Baldwin,  Daniel  Pratt,  late  Attorney-General  of  Indiana,  26 

Bayley,  Sir  John,  English  Judge  and  Author,     .....  28 

Beach,  William  Augustus, 2-] 

Blackstone,  Sir    William,  English  Jurist;    Author   of 

"  Commentaries," 33 

Bluntschli,  Johann  Kasper,  German  Jurist, 36 

Choate,  Joseph  Hodges,  Ambassador  to  Great  Britain,     .  83 

Choate,  Rufus,      83 

Christiancy,  Isaac  Peckham,  Judge,  Diplomat,  and  Uni- 
ted States  Senator,        ' .    .  83 

Coleridge,  John  Duke,  Lord  Chief- Justice  of  England,  .  105 
CooLEY,  Thomas   McIntyre,  Lecturer  on   Constitutional 

Law,  University  of  Michigan, .  98 


GENERAL   INDEX. 

PAGE 

Curtis,  George  M., io6 

Curtis,  George  Ticknor,  Lawyer  and  Author, io8 

Dalrymple,  Sir  David  (Lord  Hales),  Scottish  Judge,    .   .112 
EvARTS,  William  Maxwell,  Lawyer  and  Statesman,     .   .  145 

FiSK,  Clinton  Bowen,  Lawyer  and  General,      151 

Frelinghuysen,  Theodore,  Lawyer ;  United  States  Sen- 
ator;  Chancellor  University  of  New  York,  1839-1850; 

President  Rutgers  College,  1 850-1 861, 158 

Greenleaf,  Simon,  Jurist ;    Professor  of  Law  in  Harvard 

College 198 

Grimke,  Thomas  Smith,  Lawyer  and  Philanthropist,      .   .  199 

Grotius,  Hugo,  Dutch  Jurist  and  Author, 200 

HiLLARD,   Henry    Washington,   Lawyer,   Congressman, 

and  Diplomat, 230 

Hoar,  Ebenezer  Rockwood,  Lawyer  and  Statesman,    .   .  231 
HoRNBLOWER,  Joseph  Coerten,  Jurist ;  Professor  of  Law, 

Princeton  College 236 

Hubbard,  Samuel, 240 

Kent,  James,  Lawyer;  Author  of  "  Commentaries,"    .   .   .  265 
Key,  Francis  Scott,  Lawyer;  Poet;  Author  of  "The  Star- 
Spangled  Banner," 267 

Livingston,  William,  Lawyer;    First  Governor  of  New 

Jersey,  1776-1790, 287 

Park,  Sir  James  A.,  English  Lawyer  and  Judge,     .   .    .    .351 
Phelps,  Edward  John,  late  Ambassador  to  Great  Britain, 

etc 366 

Prentiss,  Sergeant  Smith,  Lawyer,  Orator,  and  Congress- 
man,     365 

RusLiNG,  James  F.,  Lawyer,  and  General  in  Civil  War,       .  390 

Saltonstall,  Leverett 392 

SheplEy,  Ether,  Lawyer ;  United  States  Senator,  ....  408 
Smith,  John  Cotton,  Lawyer,  Congressman,  and  Governor 

of  Massachusetts, 414 

Storrs,  Emery  Alexander,     433 

Swain,  David  Lowry,  Lawyer,  Governor,  and  Educator,    .  437 
Thurston,  John  Mellen,  General  Attorney  of  the  Union 

Pacific, 461 

Vroom,  Peter  Dumont,  Lawyer  and  Diplomat, 477 

Washburne,  Emory,  Lawyer  and  Statesman, 489 

Webster,   Daniel,   Constitutional    Lawyer,    Orator,   and 

Statesman^ 491 

Wirt,  William,  Lawyer  and  Author, 517 

Woodford,  Stewart  Lyndon,  Lawyer  and  Statesman  .   .  519 


MISCELLANEOUS. 


GENERAL    INDEX. 

PAGE 


Barnum,  Phineas  Taylor,  Exhibitor  and  PhilanthropivSt,    25 

Booth,  Junius  Brutus,  Tragedian, 39 

Clarke,  Edward  Daniel,  English  Traveler  and  Mineral- 
ogist,   84 

Fox,  Sir  Douglas,  Britivsh  Civil  and  Mechanical  Engineer,  163 
Hanway,  Jonas,  English  Traveler  and  Philanthropist.     .    .213 

Junius,  Franciscus,  English  Philologist, 262 

Lewis,  Edward  M.,  Expert  Baseball  Pitcher,     ......  295 

Murray,  Alexander,  Scottish  Philologist, 336 

Petty,  Sir  William,  English  Political  Economist,  ....  357 

Stephens,  John  Lloyd,  Traveler  and  Author, 429 

The  United  States  a  Christian  Nation, 453 

ORIENTALISTS  AND  ARCH/EOLOQISTS. 

De  Sacy,  Antoine  Isaac  Sylvestre,   French   Oriental- 
ist,       124 

DiDRON,  Adolphe  Napoleon,  French  Archaeologist,  .  .129 
Hamilton,  Sir  William,  Scottish  Antiquary,  and  Arch- 

seologist, 209 

Jones,  Sir  William,  English  Orientalist  and  Linguist,  .    .  259 
Layard,  Sir  Austin  Henry,  English  Orientalist,  Archae- 
ologist,  276 

Lenormant,  Francois,  French  Archaeologist, 281 

Palmer,  Edward  Henry,  English  Egyptologist, 348 

RucKERT,  Friedrich,  German  Orientalist  and  Poet,  .  .  .  386 
Selden,  John,  English  Oriental  Scholar  and  Statesman,  .  401 
WiNCKELMANN,  JoHANN  JoACHiM,  German   Archaeologist,  515 

PHILANTHROPISTS  AND  REFORMERS. 

Brown,  John,  Abolitionist 55 

Buxton,  Sir  Thomas  Fowell,  English  Philanthropist,     .    66 

Chubb,  Sir  George  Hayter, 89 

Clarkson,  Thomas,  English  Champion   for  Abolition  of 

Slave  Trade, 85 

COMSTOCK,  Anthony,  Secretary  of  the  Society   for  Sup- 
pression of  Vice, 96 

Cavour,  Count  Camillo  Benso,  "Regenerator  of  Italy,"  .  -j-j 
Cooper,  Anthony  Ashley,"  Seventh  Earl  of  Shaftesbury," 

English  Philanthropist, 99 

Dow,  Neal,  Temperance  Reformer, 136 

Evarts,  Jeremiah,  Philanthropist, 144 

Froebel,  Friederich  Wilhelm  August,  German  Educa- 
tional Reformer,  "  Kindergarten  System," 161 


GENERAI^   INDEX. 

PAGE 

Garibaldi,  Giuseppe,  Italian  Civil  Reformer  and  Patriot,  165 
Garrison,  William  Lloyd,  Abolitionist  and  Journalist,  .  166 
GouGH,  John  Bartholomew,  Temperance  Reformer ;  Pop- 
ular Orator, 178 

Howard,  John,  English  Prison  Reformer  and  Philanthro- 
pist,      238 

Keeley,  Leslie   E.,  Discoverer  of  "Gold   Cure  for  Ine- 
briety"; Physician,     . 264 

Kossuth,  Louis,  Hungarian  Reformer, 267 

Mazzini,  Giuseppe,  Italian  Civil  Reformer, 305 

MoRLEY,  Samuel,  English  Merchant  and  Philanthropist,  .  326 
OldcastlE,  Sir  John,  '•  Lord  Cobham,"  English  Civil  Re- 
former,    343 

Pestalozzi,   Johann  Heinrich,   Swiss  Educational  Re- 
former,     356 

Phillips,  Wendell,  Reformer  and  Popular  Orator,  .  .  .  360 
Sharp,  Granville,  English  Reformer  and  Philanthropist,  407 
Stamford,  The  Earl  op,  British  Philanthropist,    .   .    .   .417 

Tappan,  Arthur,  Merchant  and  Reformer, 444 

Westminster,  Duke  of,  British  Philanthropist, 480 

Wilberforce,  William,  English  Statesman  and  Reformer,  502 

PHILOSOPHERS  AND  METAPHYSICIANS. 

Bacon,  Francis,  Philosopher;    Lord  High  Chancellor  of 

of  England, 22 

BOHME,  Jakob,  German  Mystic  Philosopher, 37 

Cousin,  Victor,  French  Philosopher  and  Metaphysician,  .    97 
Franklin,  Benjamin,  Philosopher  and  Statesman.  .    .    .    .159 
Hamilton,  Sir  William,  Scottish  Philosopher  and  Meta- 
physician,   209- 

Hegard,  H.,  Professor  of  Philosophy,  University   of  Copen- 
hagen,     225 

Home,  Henry,    "  Lord  Kames,"  Scottish  Philosopher  and 

Jurist, 234 

Jacobi,  Friederich  Heinrich,  German  Philosopher  ;  Pres- 
ident of  the  Academy  of  Science,  Munich,  1804,     .    .    .  248 
Joupfroy,  Theodore  Simon,  French  Philosopher,  ....  262 
Kant,  Immanuel,  German  Metaphysician  and  Philosopher,  263 
Leibnitz,  Gottfried  Wilhelm,  German  Philosopher  and 

Mathematician 280 

Locke,  John,  English  Philosopher, 289 

Mill,  John  Stuart,  British  Philosopher,  Political  Econo- 
mist,    319 


GENERAI.    INDEX. 

PAGE 

Montesquieu,  Charles  De  Secondat,  French  Philosopher 

and  Jurist, 322 

Newton,  Sir  Isaac,  English  Philosopher  and  Mathemati- 
cian,     338 

Pascal,  Blaise,  French  Philosopher  and  Mathematician,  .  352 

QuiNET,  Edgar,  French  Philosopher  and  Author, 371 

Rousseau,  Jean  Jacques,  French  Philosopher  and  Writer,  385 
ScHELLiNG,  Friedrich  Wilhelm,  German  Philosopher,   .  395 
ScHLEGEL,  Karl  Wilhelm    Friedrich  Von,  German  Phi- 
losopher and  Critic 39^ 

Spinoza,  Benedict,  Dutch  Philosopher 418 

PHYSICIANS,  SURGEONS,  PHYSIOLOGISTS. 

Abercrombie,  John,  Scottish  Physician, i 

Agnew,  David  Hayes,  Physician  and  Surgeon, 10 

Bell,  Sir  Charles,  British  Anatomist  and  Physiologist,  .  31 
BoERHAAVE,  Hermann,  Dutch  Physician  and  Philosopher,  37 
Brooks,   John,    Physician;    Governor   of   Massachusetts, 

1816-1823, 50 

Browne,  Sir  Thomas,  English  Physician  and  Author,  .  .  50 
Clark,  Sir  Andrew,  Late  President  of  the  Royal  Society 

of  Physicians, 85 

Duckworth,  Sir  Dyce,  British  Physician, 129 

FiGUiER,  GuiLLAUME  Louis,  French  Physician  and  Author,  150 
Forbes,  James  David,  Scottish  Physician  and  Educator,  .  153 
Grant,  Sir  James  Alexander,  Canadian  Geologist,  .  .  .194 
Gray,  John  Purdue,  Late  Manager  of  New  York  Insane 

Asylum, 198 

Hahnemann,   Samuel  Christian  Friedrich,  German 

Physician, 204 

Haller,  Albert  Von,  Swiss  Anatomist  and  Physiologist,  206 
Hartley,  David,  Physician,  Philosopher ;  Founder  of  the 

English  Association  School  of  Psychologists, 216 

Hartshorne,  Henry,  Physician  and  Surgeon, 218 

Harvey,  William,  British  Physician, 230 

Hinton,  James,  English  Aural  Surgeon,      230 

Macalister,  Alexander,  Professor  of  Anatomy,  Univer- 
sity of  Cambridge, 302 

MoTT,  Valentine, 331 

Parker,  William   Kitchen,  Hunterian  Professor,  Royal 

College  of  Surgeons, 351 

RoGET,  Peter  Mark,  English  Physician,  Physiologist;  Au- 
thor "  Thesaurus  of  English  Words  "      384 


GENERAL    INDEX. 

PAGEJ 

Rush,  Benjamin,  Physician  ;   Signer  of  the  Declaration  of 

Independence. 388 

Simpson,  Sir  James  Young,  Scottish  Physician ;   Discov- 
erer of  Chloroform, 413^ 

Struensee,    Count    Johann    Friedrich,       Physician;  « 

Prime  Minister  of  Denmark, .  435' 

Wilson,  George,  Scottish  Physician,  Chemist ;   Professor 

of  Technology,  University  of  Edinburg,      507 

POETS. 

Addison,  Joseph,  English  Poet  and  Essayist, 6 

Aldrich,  Thomas  Bailey 10 

Arndt,  Ernst  Moritz,  German  Poet,  Patriot ;  Professor  of 

History  at  Bonn,      17 

Arnold,  Sir  Edwin,  English  Poet, 19 

Austin,  Alfred,  Poet  Laureate  of  England,      7 

Barton,  Bernard,  English  Poet, 28 

Beattie,  James,  Scottish  Poet  and  Author, 3a 

BowRiNG,  Sir  John,  English  Poet,  Statesman,  and  Linguist,    42 

Browning,  Robert,  English  Poet, 53. 

Bryant,  William  Cullen,  Poet  and  Journalist, 57 

Buchanan,  Robert,  Scotch  Poet,  .    . 38 

.  Bulwer-Lytton,  Edward  Robert,  Baron  Lytton  ("  Owen 

Meredith"),  English  Poet, 60 

Burns,  Robert,  Scottish  Poet 63 

Byron,  Lord  George  Gordon,  English  Poot, 68 

Campbell,  Thomas,  English  Poet, y2 

Carleton,  Will,  Poet  and  Author, 71 

Chatterton,  Thomas,  English  Poet, 80 

Chaucer,  Geoffrey,  English  Poet-Laureate, 82 

Claudias,  Matthias,  German  Poet,      86 

Coleridge,  Hartley,  British  Poet,      91 

Coleridge,  Samuel  Taylor,  English  Poet, 92 

CoRNEiLLE,  Pierre,  French  Dramatic  Poet, 69 

.    Cowley,  Abraham,  English  Poet, 102 

Cowper,  William,  English  Poet, loo- 

Dante,  Alighieri,  Italian  Poet, 117 

Derzhavin,  Gabriel  Romanovitch,  Russian  Poet;  Secre- 
tary of  State  under  Catherine  H., 124 

Drummond,  William,  Scottish  Poet  of  Hathornden,    .    ,    .135 

Dryden,  John,  English  Poet-Laureate, 134 

Field,  Eugene,  Poet  and  Journalist,    .    .        145 

FouQUE.  Friedrich  Heinrich   Karl,  German  Poet  and 

Novelist 156 


GENERAL    INDEX. 
1  PAG^ 

GBI.LERT,  Christian  Furchtegott,  German  Poet;   Pro- 
fessor of  Philosophy,  University  of  Leipsic, i68 

Goethe,  Johann  Wolfgang,  German  Poet  and  Author,    .  174 
Goldsmith,  Oliver,  Irish  Poet,  Historian,  and  Novelist,    .  175 

Hayne,  Paul  Hamilton,  Poet  and  Journalist, ,  224 

Heine,  Heinrich,  German  Poet, 225 

Hood,  Thomas,  English  Poet  and  Wit, 236 

Jonson,  Ben,  English  Dramatist, 258 

Klopstock,  Friedrich  Gottlieb,  German  Poet,    ....  270 
lyONGFELLOW,  Henry  Wadsworth,  Poet ;   Twenty  Years 

Professor  of  Belles  Leltres,  Harvard  College, 292 

Lowell,  James  Russell,  Poet,  Essayist,  Diplomat,      .   .   .  294 

Mackoy,  Charles,  Scottish  Poet, 310 

Miller,  Cincinnatus  Hiner  ("Joaquin  Miller"),  Author,  317 

Milton,  John,  English  Poet 320 

Montgomery,  James,  Scottish  Poet, 324 

Moore,  Thomas,  Irish  Poet, 325 

Morris,  George  Perkins,  Poet  and  Journalist, 328 

Morris,  Sir  Lewis,  British  Poet, 329 

OehlEnschlaegar,  Adam  Gottlob,  Danish  Poet,  ....  343 

Pope,  Alexander,  English  Poet, 362 

QuARLES,  Francis,  English  Poet, 369 

Racine,  Jean,  French  Dramatic  Poet, 371 

Read,  Thomas  Buchanan,  Poet  and  Artist, 376 

Riley,  James  Whitcomb,  Dialect  Poet,   .   .    , .391 

Rogers,  Samuel,  English  Poet,     383 

RosETTi,  Dante  Gabriel,  British  Painter  and  Poet,    .   .   .  386 

RusKiN,  John,  English  Art  Writer, 389 

■Saxe,  John  Godfrey,  Humorous  Poet, 394 

Schiller,  Johann   Christopher    Friedrich,   German 

Poet, 396 

Shakespeare,  William,  English  Dramatist, 405 

Southey,  Robert,  English  Poet-Laureate, 416 

Spenser,  Edmund,  English  Poet-Laureate, 420 

Stedman,  Edmund  Clarence,  Poet  and  War  Correspond- 
ent,     426 

Swinburne,  Algernon  Charles,  English  Poet, 441 

Tate,  Nahum,  Poet-Laureate  of  England, ' .  443 

Tasso,  Torquato,  Italian  Poet 442 

T'aylor,  Bayard,  Poet,  Diplomat,  Author,  and  Traveler,  .  444 

Taylor,  Benjamin  Franklin,  Poet  and  Author, 445 

Tennyson,  Alfred,  English  Poet-Laureate, 45 1 

Thomson,  James,  Scottish  Poet, 458 

"TUPPER,  Martin  Farquhar,  English  Poet  and  Author,  .    .  468 


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UHI.AND,  JoHANN  LuDWiG,  German  Lyric  Poet, 472 

Vaughan,  Henry,  English  Poet, 474 

Vere,  de,  Sir  Aubrey,  Irish  Poet, 475 

Vere,  de,  Thomas,  Irish  Poet  and  Miscellaneous  Writer.    .  476 

White,  Henry  Kirke,  English  Poet 500 

Whittier,  John  Greenleaf,  Quaker  Poet, 501 

Willis,  Nathaniel  Parker,  Poet  and  Journalist,  ....  508 
Woodworth,  Samuel,  ("The  Old  Oaken  Bucket")  ....  520 
Wordsworth,  William,  English  Poet-Laureate, 521 

Presidents  of  Associations  and  Leaders  of  Great  flovements. 

Anderson,  Robert,  Ass't  Police  Commissioner,  London,  .    17 

Arthur,  P,  M.,  Grand   Chief  of  Brotherhood   Locomotive 

Engineers, 18 

Bayless,  Sir   Wyke,  President  Royal  Society  of  British 

Artists, 49 

BoNNEY,  Charles  Carroll,  President  World's   Congress 

Auxiliar>% 42 

Bennett,  Sir  Risdon,  President  of  the  Royal  Society  of 
Physicians, 30 

Brtjnot,  Felix  R.,  President  of  American  Reform  Associa- 
tion;   Philanthropist,      56 

Clarkson,  Thaddeus  S.,  Commander-in-Chief  G.  A.  R.,     .    86 

Depew,  Chauncey  Mitchell,  President  New  York  Central 
and  Hudson  River  Railroad  Company;  Popular  Orator,  119 

Dillon,  John  Forrest,  President  American  Bar  Associa- 
tion,     131 

DuPiN,  Andre  Marie  Jean  Jacques,  President  Chamber 
of  Deputies,  and  of  the  Legislative  Assembly,      .    .    .    .  i37 

Harkness,  William,  President  American  Association  for 

the  Advancement  of  Science ;    Astronomer,      214 

Johnston,  William,  Orange  Leader;    Member  of  Parlia- 
ment since  1885, 261 

Kennaway,  Sir   John   H.,  President   Church   Missionary 

Laurie,  John  W.,  Past  Grand  Master  Freemasons,  Nova 

Scotia, 288 

Society 264 

McCuRDY,  Hugh,  Grand  Master  of  Knights  Templar,  Uni- 
ted States  of  America 311 

March,  Francis  Andrew,  President  American  Philolog- 
ical Association 304 

Newell,  William    A.,  Founder   of  the   U.  S.  Life-Saving 

Service, 342 


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Northampton,  Marquis  of,  President  of  Ragged  School 

Union, 337 

OSBON,  B.  S.,  Rear-Admiral,  Commanding  National  Associ- 
ation of  Naval  Veterans,    . 345 

Palmer,  Thomas  Witherell,  President  of  World's  Co- 
lumbian Commission, 34^ 

PowDERLY,  Terrence    Vincent,  late    General    Master 

Workman  of  the  Knights  of  Labor, 365 

Reay,  The  Right  Honorable  Lord .    ...  390 

Sovereign,  James  R.,  Master  Workman  Knights  of  Labor,  417 

Stokes,  George  Gabriel,  President  of  the  Royal  Society; 

Professor  of  Mathematics,  University  of  Cambridge,     .  432 

Stuart,  George  Hay,  President  of  the  Christian  Commis- 
sion during  the  Civil  War;  Philanthropist 437 

Williams,  Sir  George,  Originator  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  .   .  508 

PRESIDENTS  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES. 

Adams,  John,  Second  President, 2 

Adams,  John  Quincy,  Sixth  President, 3 

Buchanan,  James,  Fifteenth  President, 56 

Cleveland,  Stephen  Grover,  Twenty-second  President,     90 

Garfield,  James  Abram,  Twentieth  President, 164 

Grant,  Ulysses  Simpson,  Eighteenth  President,      .    .   .   .195 

Harrison,  Benjamin,  Twenty-third  President,      216 

Harrison,  William  Henry,  Ninth  President, 215 

Hayes,  Ruthereord  Birchard,  Nineteenth  President,  .    .  223 

Jackson,  Andrew,  Seventh  President,     .    .    . 247 

Jefferson,  Thomas,  Third  President, 252 

Johnson,  Andrew,  Seventeenth  President, 255 

Lincoln,  Abraham,  Sixteenth  President, 285 

Madison,  James,  Fourth  President, 307 

Pierce,  Franklin,  Fourteenth  President, 361 

Polk,  James  Knox,  Eleventh  President, 364 

Taylor,  Zachary,  Twelfth  President,      447 

Tyler,  John,  Tenth  President, 469 

Van  Buren,  Martin,  Eighth  President, 473 

Washington,  George,  First  President, 484 

SCIENTISTS :  Astronomers,  Botanists,  Chemists,  Geologists,  Math, 
ematicians.  Meteorologists,  Naturalists,  Physicists,  and 
Phrenologists. 

Agassiz,  Jean  Louis  Rudolphe,  Swiss  Naturalist 5 

Bonnet,  Charles,  Swiss  Naturalist  and  Philosopher,      .    .    39 
Boyle,  Robert,  Irish  Chemist  and  Philosopher, 43 


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Brake,  Tycho,  Danish  Astronomer 52 

Brewster,  Sir  David,  Scottish  Physicist, 46 

Brunetiere,  Marie  Ferdinand,  Member  French  Academy,  65 

BuFFON,  Georges  L.  L.,  French  Naturalist, 52 

Combe,  George,  Scottish  Phrenologist, 94 

Copernicus,  Nickolaus,  Prussian  Astronomer, 98 

CuviER,  Baron  Georges,  French  Naturalist, no 

Dana,  James   Dwight,  Geologist  and  Mineralogist:    Pro- 
fessor of  those  Branches  of  Science  in  Yale  College,  .  114 

Davy,  Sir  Humphrey,  English  Chemist, 115 

Dawson,  Sir  John  William,  Canadian  Geologist  and  Nat- 
uralist; President  of  the  McGill  College,  Toronto,      .    .118 
De  Luc,  Jean  Andre,  Genevese  Geologist  and  Meteorolo- 
gist,     .  121 

De  Morgen,  Augustus,  British  Mathematician,  Logician,  .  122 
Draper,  John  William,  Chemist,  Phj^siologist,  Author,  .    135 

EulER,  Leonard,  Swiss  Mathematician,      143 

Faraday,  Michael,  English  Chemist  and  Naturalist,      .    .  147 

Fowler,  Orson  Squire,  Phrenologist, 155 

Galilei,  Galileo,  Italian  Astronomer, 165 

Gladstone,  J.  H.,  English  Scientist, 172 

Gray,  Asa,  Botanist, 196 

Gregory,  Olinthus  Gilbert,  English  Mathematician  and 

Philosopher, 199 

GuYOT,  Arnold,  Geologist  and  Naturalist, 202 

Hamilton,  Sir  William  Rowan,  Irish  Astronomer  and 

Geometer, 210 

Harrington,    Mark    Walrod,    Astronomer;     Chief    of 

Weather  Bureau, 215 

Henry,  Joseph,  Physicist ;  Late  Secretary  of  Smithsonian 

Institute, 226 

Herschel,  Sir  John  Frederick  William,  English  As- 
tronomer and  Philosopher, •.    .    .  227 

Humboldt,  Frederick  Heinrich  Alexander,  German 

Naturalist, 241 

Kepler,  Johann,  German  Astronomer, 266 

KiDD,  John,  English  Chemist,  Educator,  and  Writer,  .   .    .  268 

Lardner,  Dionysius,  British  Astronomer,      273 

Le  Conte,  Joseph,  Geologist,  Author,  and  Educator,  .    .    .  278 

Linneaus,  Carl,  Swedish  Botanist, 284 

Lyell,  Sir  Charles,  British  Geologist, 299 

Maury,  Matthew  Fontaine,  Hydrographer, 310 

Maxwell,  James  Clerk,  English  Physicist,      306 

Miller,  Hugh,  Scottish  Geologist  and  Author 318 

Mitchel,  Ormsby   MacKnight,  Astronomer;  Major-Gen- 

eral  in  Civil  War, 320 


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Pfaff,  Friedrich,  Professor  of  Natural  Science,  Univer- 
sity of  Erlangen,  Bavaria, 357 

Ray,  John,  English  Naturalist, 376 

RiTTENHOUSE,  David,  Astronomer  and  Mathematician,  .    .379 

RiTTER,  Carl,  German  Geographer, 380 

Romanes,  George  John,  British  Psychologist, 382 

SiLLiMAN,  Benjamin,  Physicist  and  EduQator, 411 

Stewart,  Balfour,  British  Physicist, 431 

Swift,  Lewis,  Astronomer, 441 

Tait,  Peter  Guthrie,  Professor  of  Mathematics,  Univer- 
sity of  Edinburg 43i 

Tenney,  Sanborn,  Naturalist  and  Educator, 449 

The  Declaration  of  Eight  Hundred  Scientists,  .  .  455 
WiNCHELL,  Alexander,  Geologist  and  Educator,  .  .  .  .514 
WiNTHROP,   John,   Physicist;    Professor  of   Mathematics 

and  Natural  Philosophy  in  Harvard  College,  1 738-1 779,  517 

30LDIERS:    Generals  and  Admirals. 

Armstrong,   Samuel  Chapman,  Federal   Brigadier-Gen- 
eral;    Principal    Hampton    Normal    and   Agricultural 

Institute, 16 

Belknap,  George  Eugene,  Rear-Admiral,  U.  S.  Navy,  .  .  59 
Bismarck,   Otto    Eduard  Leopold,    Prince,   Prussian 

Chancellor, ,    .    32 

Crosby,  Pierce,  Rear-Admiral 82 

Dewey,  George,  Admiral;  Hero  of  Manila  Bay,  .  .  .  .  .122 
Dix,  John  Adams,  Federal  Major-General  and  Statesman,  .  132 

Edwardes,  Sir  Herbert,  English  General, 140 

Fairchild,  Lucius,  Federal  Brigadier-General;  Governor, 

Diplomat,  Commander-in-Chief  of  G.  A.  R 146 

Fairfax,  Sir  Thomas,  Parliamentary  General ;  Command- 
er-in-Chief of  Civil  Wars,  146 

Farragut,  David  Glasgow,  Federal  Admiral,      148 

FooTE,  Andrew  Hull,  Federal  Rear-Admiral, 153 

Fremantle,  Sir  Edmund  Robert,  British  Admiral,  ...  151 
Gordon,  Charles  George,  English  Major-General ;  "  Chi- 
nese Gordon," 176 

Haig,  F.  T.,  English  Major-General, 204 

Havelock,  Sir  Henry,  British  Major-General, 219 

Howard,  Olivkr  Otis,  Major-General  U.  S.  A. 239 

HowisoN,  Henry  L.,  Rear-Admiral, 203 

Hutchison,  George,  British  Major-General, 245 

Jackson,  Thomas  Jonathan,  Confederate  Major-General,  .  248 


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Xee,  Robert  Edward,  Confederate  Commander-in-Chief; 

•President  Washington  and  Lee  University, 279 

I^ONGSTREET,  James,  Confederate  Major-General;  Diplomat,  291 
Luce,  Stephen  Bleecker,  Rear-Admiral,  U.  S.  Nav3%  •  •  298 
Mackenzie,  Colin,  late  British  Lieutenant-General,  .  .  .  306 
McClellan,  George  Brinton,  Major-General,  U.  S.  A.,  .312 
MacGregor,  Sir  Duncan,  Scottish  Major-General,  ....  303 
Mahan,  Alfred  T.,  Captain  in  U.  S.  Navy;  Author,  .  .  .  325 
Marion,  Francis,  Major-General  in  the  Revolution,  .  .  .317 
Meade,  George  Gordon,  Federal  Major-General,    .    .    .    .315 

Merritt,  Wesley,  Major-General,  U.  S.  Army, 316 

MoLTKE,  Count  Helmuth  Von,  Prussian  Field-Marshal,  .  321 
OuTRAM,  Sir  James,  British  Lieut.-General  in  India,  .  .  .347 
Perry,  Matthew  Calbraith,  Commodore,  U.  S.  Navy,    .  350 

Phayre,  Sir  Robert,  English  Major-General, 358 

Philip,  John  W.,  Rear- Admiral, 266 

Pleasonton,  Alfred,  Federal  Major-General, 361 

Porter,  David  Dixon,  Federal  Rear- Admiral, 363 

Roe,  Francis  A.,  Rear-Admiral, 375 

Schley,  Winfield  Scott,  Rear-Admiral,  U.  S.  Navy,  .  .  412 
ScHOFiELD,  John  McAllister,  late  Commander-in-Chief 

of  the  U.  S.  Army, 398 

Scott,  Winfield,  Federal  Lieutenant-General, 401 

Sickles,  Daniel  Edgar,  Federal  Major-General, 412 

Smith,  Ephraim  Kirby,  Confederate  Major-General,    .    .    .414 

Stirling,  Sir  William,  British  Major-General, 435 

Thomas,  George  riENRY,  Federal  Major-General,  ....  450 
Touch,  John  Gray,  English  Lieutenant-General,  ....  465 
TowNSEND,  Frederick,  Federal  Brigadier-General,      .   .    .  466 

Upshur,  John  Henry,  Federal  Rear-Admiral, 472 

Verney,  Sir  Edmund,  late  Captain  Royal  Navy;  Author,  477 
WoLSELEY,  Lord,  Commander-in-Chief,  British  Army,  .  .517 
Warren,  Sir  Charles,  British  Lieutenant-General,    .   .   .  527 

Watson,  John  C,  Rear-Admiral, 525 

Wellesley,  Arthur,  Duke  of  Wellington,  British  Field- 
Marshal,     524 

Wilbraham,  Sir  Richard,  Major-General,  British  Army,  .  527 
Wood,  Sir  Evelyn,  Adjutant-General,  British  Army,      .   .  528 

Worden,  John  Lorimer,  Rear-Admiral, 481 

Ziethen,  Hans  Joachim  Von,  Prussian  Major-General,    .  524 


GENERAL    INDEX. 

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STATESriEN:  Congressmen,  Diplomats  and  Senators  of  the 
United  States;  Prime  flinisters  of  England  and  Members 
of  Parliament. 

Adams,  Samuei.,  Signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  5 

Ames,  Fisher,  Congressman  and  Orator, 12 

Andrew,  John  Albion,  War  Governor  of  Massachusetts,  .  14 

Anthony,  Henry  Bowen,  United  States  Senator,    ...    .  16 

Armstrong,  John,  Congressman,  United  States  Senator,  .  17 

Baden-Powell,  Sir  George,  Member  British  Parliament,  66 

Balfour,  Arthur  James,  Leader  in  House  of  Commons,  .  35 

Beck,  James  Burnie,  United  States  Senator,     ......  2S 

BEMROSE,  H.  H.,  M.  P.,  •' 66 

Black,  Jeremiah  Sullivan,  Attorney-General  under  Pres- 
ident Buchanan ;  Lawyer, 31 

Blackwood,  Sir  S.  A.,  English  Statesman 36 

Blaine,  James    Gillespie,  Twenty  Years  in   Congress; 

Thrice  Speaker  of  the  House ;  Secretary  of  State, ...  54 

Bradish,  Luther,  Statesman  and  Philanthropist,     ....  44 

Brassey,  The  Right  Honorable  Lord,  English  Statesman,  45 

Bridgman,  F.  C,  Member  of  Parliament ;  British  General,  .  47 
Briggs,   George    Nixon,    Congressman    Six    SucceSvSive 

Terms;    Governor  of  MavSsachusetts,  1843-1 851.     ...  48 

Brigham,  John  A.,  Congressman  and  Diplomat, 20 

Bright,  John,  English  Statesman  and  Orator, 48 

Brougham,  Henry,  English  Statesman  and  Author,    ...  51 

Brown,  Joseph  Emerson,  United  States  Senator,    ....  54 

Bruce,  Sir  George,  English  Statesman,    ......    .   .  55 

Bryce,  James,  Member  of  Parliament  and  Author,    ....  56 

Buchanan,  James,  Congressman,  .- 57 

Buckingham,  William  Alfred,  "War  Governor";  United 

States   Senator, •.    .    .  58 

Bunsen,  Christian  Karl  Josias,  Prussian  Ambassador,  61 

Burke,  Edmund,  English  Statesman  and  Orator,    ....  64 
Butler,    Benjamin   Franklin,   Attorne3^-General  under 

President  Jackson, 64 

Buxton,  Sir  Thomas  Powell,  English  Statesman,  ....  67 

Campbell,  George  John  Douglas,  "  Duke  of  Argyll,"    .  70 

Campbell,  James  A.,  Member  of  Parliament, 75 

Canning  George,  Prime  Minister  of  England, jz 

Cass,  Lewis,  General,  Lawyer,  Governor,  Diplomat,  United 

States  Senator, 76 


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Cassini,  Comte,  Russian  Ambassador, 105 

Cecil,  William,  Prime  Minister  of  England, 'j'] 

Cheke,  Sir  John,  English  Statesman, 82 

Chichester,  Lord,  British  Official, 90 

Clay,  Cassius  Marcellus,  Diplomat  to  Russia  under  Pres- 
idents Lincoln  and  Grant, 86 

Clay,  Henry,  Secretary  of  United  States  under  John  Q. 
Adams;    Five  times  Speaker  of  the  House;    United 

States  Senator, 87 

Clinton,  De  Witt,  Mayor  of  New  York ;  Governor  of  New 

York, 87 

CocKRELL,  Francis  Marion,  United  States  Senator  since 

1875, 102 

CoLPAX,  Schuyler,  Congressman  ;  Speaker  of  the  Thirty- 
eighth,  Thirty-ninth  and  Fortieth  Congresses,    ....    93 
Colquitt,  Alfred  Holt,  United  States  Senator,     .   .    .   .    91 

Cox,  Samuel  Sullivan,  Congressman;   Diplomat loi 

Croker,  John   Wilson,  British   Statesman   and  Author; 

Secretary  to  the  Admiralty,  1 809-1 830,      103 

Crossley,  Edward,  Member  of  Parliament, 104 

CuRRAN,  The   Right   Honorable  John  Philpot,  Irish 

Orator  and  Statesman, 107 

De  Sacy,  Antoine  Isaac  S.,  French  Orientalist, 124 

Dingley,  Nelson,  Jr.,  Journalist;  Congressman  since  1881,  130 
DiMSDALE,  Sir  Joseph,  Lord  Mayor  of  London,  1902,  ...  121 

DoLPH,  Joseph  Norton,  United  States  Senator, 133 

Eaton,  Dorman  Bridgman,  Civil  Service  Commissioner,    138 
Edgerton,  Alfred  P.,  Civil  Service  Commissioner,   .    .    .139 
Fairfax,    Sir    Thomas,    Parliamentary    General ;     Com- 
mander-in-Chief Civil  Wars, 146 

Field,  Edward,  M.  P.  since  1885  ;  late  British  Admiral,     .  155 
Fish,  Hamilton,  United  States  Senator,  Secretary  of  State 
under  President  Grant,  1869-1877 ;  President  Society  of 

Cincinnati 151 

F'ooT,  Solomon,  United  States  Senator,  1 851- 1866 152 

Foster,  Charles,  Secretary  of  Treasury  under  President 

Benjamin  Harrison, 154 

Foster,  John  Watson,  Secretary  of  State  under  President 

Benjamin  Harrison, 154 

Fowler,  Sir  Robert,  Member  of  Parliament, 156 

Fox,  Charles  James,  English  Statesman  and  Orator,  .    .157 

Francis,  Sir  Philip,  English  Statesman, 157 

Frye,  William  Pierce,  United  States  Senator, 162 

Gladstone,  William  Ewart,  Prime  Minister  of  England; 

Author, 171 


GENERAL    INDEX. 

PAGK 

Gordon,  John  Brown,  United  States  Senator, 178 

Grattan,  Henry,  Irish  Orator, i95 

Hamilton,  Alexander,  Secretary  of  Treasury  under  Presi- 
dent Washington, 208 

Hampden,  John,  English  Statesman, 211 

Hawley,  Joseph  Roswell,  United  States  Senator,     .   .    .  229- 

Hay,  John,  Ambassador  to  Great  Britain  ;   Poet, 245 

Henry,  Patrick,  Statesman  and  Orator, 227 

Hewitt,  Abram  Stevens,  Ex-Mayor  of  New  York,  .  .  .  228 
Hill,  Benjamin  Harvey,  United  States  Senator,     ....  228 

Hoar,  George  Frisbie,  United  States  Senator, 231 

HoARE,  Samuel,  Member  of  Parliament,      232 

HoLMAN,  William  Steele,  Thirty  Years  in  Congress,    .   .  224 

Houston,  Samuel,  United  States  Senator, 237 

Hunter,  Sir  William,  English  Statesman,   .   .   .    .  o   .    .  244 

Jay,  John,  Diplomat  under  President  Grant, 249 

Kelley,  William  Darrah,  Congressman  1 860-1 890,  .  .  264 
Eawrence,  Sir    Henry    Montgomery,  late   Provisional 

Governor  of  India, 275 

Lee,  Richard  Henry,  Orator,  Statesman  and  Patriot,    .    .  279 

Long,  John  Davis,  Statesman, 29a 

Lyttleton,  Lord  George,  English  Statesman, 300 

McArthur,  William  Alexander,  Member  of  Parliament,  314 
McCarthy,  Justin,  Member  of  Parliament ;  Author,  .  .  .  303 
McKiNLEY,  William,  Congressman ;  Governor  of  Ohio,  .  .  313 
Marsh,  George  Perkins,  Diplomat  and  Philologist,  .  .  .  305 
MiLNES,  Richard    Monckton,  Lord  Houghton,  English 

Statesman  and  Writer, .  319 

Morse,  Elijah  A.,  Congressman  and  Manufacturer,    .   .   .  326 

Morton,  Oliver  Perry,  "  War  Governor," 33a 

Oldroyd,  Mark,  Member  of  Parliament, 343 

Oxenstiern,  Axel,  Swedish  Ambassador, 347 

Pease,  Sir  A.,  Member  of  Parliament, 356 

Peel,  Sir  Robert,  twice  Prime  Minister  of  England,  .  .  354 
Phipps,  Sir  William,  Early  Governor  of  Massachusetts,    .  359 

Pitt,  William,  English  Statesman ;  Orator, 363 

Radstock,  Right  Honorable  Lord,  English  Statesman,  372 
Ramsay,  Sir  Henry,  British  Statesman  in  India,  ....  374 
Randall,    Samuel    Jackson,    Congressman,    1863-1890; 

twice  Speaker  of  the  House, 373 

Randolph,  John,  Orator  and  Statesman, 374 

RiCKETT,  J.  CoMPTON,  British  Parliamentarian, 383 

Rives,  William  Cabell,  Statesman  and  Diplomat,     .   ,   .  380' 


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RussELi/,  Lord  John,  British  Statesman,    .   .    ...    ...  387 

RussELi,,  Lord  William,  English  Statesman  and  Patriot,  387 

RusTON,  Joseph,  Member  of  Parliament, 391 

Seward,  William  Henry,  Secretary  of  State  under  Presi- 
dent Lincoln, 404 

Seymour,  Horatio,  War  Governor  of  New  York,  ....  402 
Sherman,  John,  United  States  Senator  since  j86i,  .  .  .  .  409 
Sibley,  Henry  Hastings,  Congressman  ;    Major-General 

in  Civil  War, 411 

Sidney,  Sir  Philip,  English  Statesman  and  Poet,  .    .    .    .41a 

Smith,  Samuel,  Member  of  Parliament 416 

SouTTAR,  Robinson,  Member  of  British  Parliament,    .   .    .  406 

Spicer,  Albert,  Member  of  Parliament, 419 

Sprague,  William,   United    States    Senator,  1863-1875; 

Governor;  Manufacturer, 421 

Stamford,  The  Earl  op,  British  Statesman, 43a 

Stanley,  Edward   Geoffrey  Smith   ('-Lord   Derby"), 

Prime  Minister  of  England 422 

Stephens,  Alexander  Hamilton,  Congressman,  ....  429 

Stewart,  Mark  J.,  Member  of  Parliament, 430 

Stockton,  Richard,  Signer  of  Declaration  of  Independence,  431 

Sully,  Duke  of,  French  Statesman, 400 

Sumner,  Charles,  United  States  Senator 436 

Swift,  John  Lindsay,  Deputy  Collector  of  Customs,  .    .    .  440 

Temple,  Sir  Richard,  Member  of  Parliament, 448 

Temple,  Sir  William,  English  Statesman ;  Diplomat,  .  .  449 
Thomson,  Charles,  Secretary   of  the   First   Continental 

Congress, " 458 

TocQUEViLLE,  Alexis  Charles  Henry  Clerel,  French 

Political  Writer, 464 

Tritton,  Charles  E.,  Member  of  British  Parliament,    .    .  452 

Trumbull,  Jonathan,  Colonial  Statesman, 467 

Vane,  Sir  Henry,  English  Republican  Statesman,  .    .    .    .471 
Vansittart,  Nicholas  ("  Lord  Bexley  "),  Member  of  Par- 
liament,  474 

Voorhees,  Daniel  Wolsey,  United  States  Senator  since 

1877. 477 

Walker,  Joseph  H.,  Congressman,      478 

Walsingham,  Sir  Francis,  English  Statesman, 481 

Wellington,  George  L.,  United  States  Senator,     ....  526 
Wheeler,  Joseph,  Member  of  Congress;    Senior  Confed- 
erate Cavalry  General, 499 

Wheeler,  William  Almon,  Congressman ;  Vice-President 

of  the  United  States .....*  499 


GENERAL    INDEX. 

PAG^ 

Wilson,  Henry,  United  StatCvS  Senator, 509 

Wilson,  John,  Member  of  Parliament, 503 

WiNCHiLSEA,  The  Earl  of, 523 

WiNDOM,  William,  United  States  Senator, 516 

WiNTHROP,  John,  First  Governor  of  Massachusetts  Colony,  516 
WiNTHROP,  Robert  Charles,  Statesman  and  Author,  .  .518 
Wotton,  Sir  Henry,  English  Diplomat  and  Author,  .  .  .  522 
Wright,  Carroll  Davidson,  Statistician, 523 

ADDENDA. 

Albert,  King  of  Saxony, -14 

Alverstone,  Lord,  Lord  Chief  Justice  of  England, 16 

Brooke,  John  R.,  Major-General, 51 

Cranborne,  Viscount,  Member  of  Parliament, 74 

Cavan,  Lord,  British  Philanthropist, 75 

CoLLis,  Charles  H.  T.,  Brevet  Major-General, 84 

Cooper,  Thomas  Sidney,  British  Landscape  and  Animal  Painter,  88 

Crispi,  Francesco,  Late  Prime  Minister  of  Italy, 96 

Cecil,  Lord  Hugh,  Member  of  Parliament, •  109 

Davis,  Cushman  Kellogg,  Late  United  States  Senator,  .    .    .    .118 

Dale,  Principal,  British   Educator,   .    .    . 120 

Hadley,  Arthur  Twining,  President  of  Yale  College, 235 

Haggard,  Henry  Rider,  British  Novelist 235 

Harlan,  James,  Late  United  States  Senator, 235 

Harlan,  John  Marshall,  Associate  Justice,  Supreme  Court,  .  .  235 
Hutton,' Richard  Holt,  Journalist,  late  editor  of  The  Spectator,  234 

Kane,  Elisha  Kent,  Arctic  Explorer, 269 

Kernahan,  Coulson,  British  Author  and  Novelist, 270 

Keen,  William  W.,  President  American  Medical  Association,  .    .271 

LossiNG,  John  Benson,  Historian, 278 

Lansdowne,  Marquis  of,  British  Foreign  Secretary,  .  .  ,  .  .  298 
Lowry,  Robert  William,  British  Major-General,  ......  300 

Maxim,  Hudson,  Inventor  of  the  "Maxim  Gun," 315 

Marlborough,  Duke  of,  British  General-in-Chief, 318 

Markham,  Edwin,  Poet  and  Educator, 323 

MoNTALEMBERT,  Charles  Forbes  De.,  French  Statesman,  .    .    .  335 

Napier,  Sir  Charles,  BritiwSh  Major-General, 338 

Nelson  Lord  Horatio,  British  Hymn  Compiler, •  176 

Oscar  II.,  King  of  Norway  and  Sweden, 345 

Pitt,  William,  First  Earl  of  Chatham ;  British  Statesman,  .  .  .  366 
Pemberton,  Max,  British  Author;  Editor  of  CasselVs  Magazine,  .  358 

Representative  Women  and  Christianity 529 

Roberts,  Lord,  British  Field  Marshal 379 

Salisbury,  Marquis  of.  Prime  Minister  of  Great  Britian,  ....  394 
Smith,  Charles  Piazza,  Late  Astronomer  Royal  for  Scotland,  .  415 
Simmons,  Sir  John  Lintorn  Arabin,  British  Field-Marshal,  .    .  437 

Stewart,  Dugald.,  Scottish  Metaphysician, 442 

Taney,  Roger  Brooke,  Late  Chief  Justice,  Supreme  Court> .  .  .  445 
Vance,  Zebulon  Baird,  United  States  Senator, 470 


GENERAL   INDEX. 


ILLUSTRATIONS 


The  Holy  Scriptures  the  Center  of  Attraction, Frontispiece 

Dedicatory  Group, Page  3 

The  Author "     4 

The  Adoration  of  the  Wise  Men, Following  Introduction 

My  Mother's  Bible, Following  page     36 

King  Edward  VII :  Men  whom  Britains  delight  to 

Honor, Following  page  236 

Witnesses  for  Christ  Sacrificed  to  Lions,  ....  "  "     250 
Theodore  Roosevelt,  Twenty-sixth  President;  Am- 
erica's Third  Martyred  President, Following  page  312" 

Thy  Statutes  have  been  My  Songs, "  "     380- 

Washington  in  Prayer  at  Valley  Forge, "  '•     476* 

The  Bo5^hood  of  Christ;  Christ  and  his  Mother,  .  "  **     496 

Christ,  the  First  Friend  of  Woman, "  "     547 

Woman's  Fidelity  to  Her  Lord, "     529 

Foremost   Americans   Champion  the   Divinity  of  ' 
Christ;  Rear  Admirals  of  the  Civil  and  Ameri- 
can Spanish  Wars, Following  page  528 

PORTRAITS  IN  GROUPS. 

Following  page  4  :  Crowned  Heads  of  Three  Great  Kingdoms: 

Nicholas  II.,  Czar  of  Russia. 
Victoria,  Late  Queen  of  Great  Britain. 
William  II.,  King  of  Prussia  and  Em- 
peror of  Germany. 

Following  page  16  :  Representative  Men  : 

Blaine,  James  G. 
Gordon,  Major-GeneraL 
Logan,  John  A. 
Lowell,  James  RusselL 
Phillips,  Wendell. 
Shaftesbury,  Lord. 
Stanley,  Henry  M. 


GENERAL    INDEX. 

Following  page  26  :  Britons  of  World-Wide  Fame : 

Blackie,  John  Stuart. 
Bright,  John. 
Coleridge,  Lord. 
Froude,  James  Anthony. 
Livingston,  David. 
Wilberforce,  William. 

Following  page  58 :  Popular  American  Journalists : 

Curtis,  George  William. 
Dana,  Charles  Anderson. 
Grady,  Henry  W. 
Kohlsaat,  Herman  H. 
Reid,  Whitelaw. 
Shepard,  Elliott  F. 
Watterson,  Henry. 

Following  page  76 :  Eminent  European  Characters : 

Andersen,  Hans  Christian. 
Dante,  Alighieri. 
De  Quincey,  Thomas. 
Fielding,  Henry. 
Gounod,  Charles  Francois. 
Liszt,  Franz. 
Spinoza,  Benedict. 

Following  page  96 :  Presidents  of  Universities : 

Angell,  James  B. 
Harper,  William  R. 
Northrop,  Cyrus. 
Rogers,  Henry  W. 
Schurman,  Jacob  B. 
Swain,  Joseph. 

Following  page  114.  German  Household  Names ; 

Bach,  Johann  Sebastian. 
Goethe,  Johann  Wolfgang. 
Haydn,  Franz  Joseph. 
Humboldt,  Frederick  H.  A. 
Klopstock,  Frederick  Gottlieb. 
Schiller,  Johann  Christoph  F. 


GENERAL    INDEX. 

Following  page  132  :  Honorable  Men  of  Our  Time : 

Austin,  Alfred, 
Edgerton,  Alfred  P. 
Field,  Cyrus  West. 
Holland,  Josiah  Gilbert. 
Lytton,  Sir  Edward  Bulwer, 
Choate,  Joseph  H. 
Sherman,  John. 

Following  page  150 :  Distinguished  Britons  of  Today : 

Arnold,  Matthew. 
Balfour,  Arthur  J. 
Halsbury,  Eord. 
Muir,  Sir  William. 
Muller,  Frederic  Max. 
Northbrook,  Eord. 
Williams,  M.  Monier. 

Following  page  166 :  Public  and  Professional  Men : 

Agnew,  David  Hayes. 
Brewer,  David  J. 
Depew,  Chauncey  M. 
Evarts,  William  H. 
Morse,  Elijah  A. 
Randall,  Samuel  J. 
Thiers,  Louis  Adolphe. 

Following  page  182 :  Famous  British  Poets : 

Burns,  Robert. 
Chaucer,  Geoffrey. 
Cowper,  William. 
Lamb,  Charles. 
Pope,  Alexander. 

Following  page  198 :  Soldiers  in  the  Civil  War : 

Howard,  Major-General. 
Longstreet,  Major-General. 
Merritt,  Major-General. 
Pleasonton,  Major-General. 
Schofield,  Major-General. 
Sickles,  Major-General. 
Wilson,  Colonel. 


GENERAL    INDEX. 

Following  page  214 :  Leading  Scientists  of  Great  Britain: 

Bennett,  Sir  Risdon. 
Brewster,  Sir  David. 
Clark,  Sir  Andrew. 
Davy,  Sir  Humphrey. 
Romanes,  George  John. 
Simpson,  Sir  James  Young. 
Wilson,  Sir  George. 

Following  page  224 :  American  Favorites : 

Aldrich,  Thomas  Bailey. 
Agassiz,  Jean  Louis. 
Motley,  John  Lathrop. 
Prescott,  William  Hickling. 
Sumner,  Charles. 
Wallace,  Lew. 

Following  page  266  :  Giving  Thanks  after  Cervera's  Defeat. 

Lord  Nelson  in  Prayer  at  Trafalgar. 

Following  page  282  :  Nineteenth  Century  Military  Leaders : 

Bismarck,  Prince. 
Bonaparte,  Napoleon. 
Grant,  Ulysses  S. 
Lee,  Robert  E. 
Moltke,  Count  von. 
Wellington,  Duke  of. 
Wolseley,  Lord. 


GENERAL    INDEX. 

Following  page  296  :  Prominent  United  States  Senators 

Anthony,  Henry  B. 
Cockrell,  Francis  M. 
Foraker,  Joseph  B. 
Frye,  William  P. 
Gordon,  John  B. 
Hawley,  Joseph  R. 
Hoar,  George  F. 
Palmer,  Thomas  W. 
Thurston,  John  M. 
Wilson,  Henry. 

Following  page  330 :  Presidents  and  Professors  of  Colleges; 

Carter,  Franklin. 
Gates,  Merrill  E. 
Jordan,  S. 
LeConte,  Joseph. 
Olney,  Edward. 
Swift,  Lewis. 

Following  page  346 :  Well-Known  Governors  of  States : 

Beaver,  James  A. 
Flower,  Roswell  P. 
Francis,  David  R. 
Fuller,  Levi  K. 
Gray,  Isaac  P. 
Jackson,  Frank  D. 
Northen,  William  J. 
Rusk,  Jeremiah  M. 

Following  page  346  :  Twentieth  Century  Governors. 

Following  page  360 :  Typical  Magazine  Editors : 

Alden,  Henry  M. 
Bok,  Edward  W. 
Gilder,  Richard  W. 
Stead,  William  T. 
Walker,  John  B. 
Warner,  Charles  W. 

Following  page  360 :  Illustrious  Presidents  of  Universities ; 

Fetterolf,  A.  H. 
Hadley,  Arthur  T. 
Venable,  Francis  P. 
Webb,  Alexander  S. 
Wheeler,  Benjamin  I. 


GENERAI.    INDEX. 

Following  page  400 :  Chief  Justices,  United  States  Supreme  Court : 

Chase,  Salmon  P. 
Ellsworth,  Oliver. 
Jay,  John. 
Marshall,  John. 
Taney,  Roger  B. 
Waite,  Morris  R. 

Following  page  418:  Federal  Major-Generals  and  Naval  Officers: 

Belknap,  George  F, 
Dix,  John  A. 
Farragut,  David  G. 
McClellan,  George  B. 
Mahan,  Alfred  T. 
Porter,  David  D. 
Scott,  Winfield. 
Sherman,  William  T. 
Thomas,  George  H. 

Following  page  436 :  University  Presidents : 

Draper,  Andrew  S. 
Gilman,  Daniel  C. 
Jesse,  Richard  H. 
Johnston,  William  P, 
Low,  Seth. 
MacLean,  George  E. 
Snow,  Francis  H. 

Following  page  454 :  Celebrities  of  the  United  States : 

Clarkson,  Thaddeus  S. 
Dingley,  Nelson. 
Foster,  John  W. 
Hay,  John. 
Long,  John  D. 
Walker,  Joseph  H. 
Wheeler,  Joseph. 
Woodford,  Stewart  L^ 

Following  page  488  :  Heroes  of  the  Spanish  American  War: 

Dewey,  George. 

Philip,  J.  W. 

Roosevelt,  Theodore. 

Schley,  W.  S. 

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